I'd just like to add one final comment to what Frank has posted here. The one thing that I think everyone here agrees with is the following:
* We have a water problem and it's only going to get worse. * Bringing in town water will completely open up all of the land for total development. * There are no controls in place to recognize that the irresponsible water use of our neighbors can impact us. * There is no higher lever oversight of our problems. This is the opportunity to get the ball rolling on how to achieve that oversight. PLEASE COME TO THIS MEETING! On Sun, 17 Feb 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: =>----NEIGHBORHOOD ALERT---- =>------MEETING NOTICE---- =>The Standing Committee on Public Works (SCPW) is holding a public =>hearing which will effect your neighborhood for many years to come. =>The best way that you can protect your own personal interest, as well =>as, save your neighborhood and save your town is to attend this meeting. => Please bring as many people =>as you can to the meeting, it's that important. More importantly the agenda =>(listed below) will allow you to =>put into the record problems that you and your neighborhood may have with our =>water & sewer systems. =>Thereby assuring your problem a place on the list of work to be done. In =>addition, the SCPW has requested =>the administration to provide actual data and information that will better =>inform you of the possibility of your =>problem being corrected. => => DATE PLACE => TIME =>Tuesday Feb. 19, 02------------------------Upper Nevens =>Hall.-------------------- 7:30 p.m. => Memorial Building, 150 Concord St., Framingham MA => =>------AGENDA------ 1) Public Hearing on north side water & sewer =>problems. Input from citizens on their => personal problems over the years and any and all possible solutions. =>As required by => the SCPW promise to Town Meeting when making the SCPW successful =>motions to refer => back to sponsor Articles 15, 16, 22 & 23. => =>2) A presentation and up-date on all proposed pumping stations =>including but not limited to the => water pumping station on Grove & Edmands (for the Doeskin =>Betterment) and the => replacement Sewer pumping station for Edgewater Drive. => =>3) Review of outstanding SCPW questions to the DPW. => =>4) A presentation and up-date from the administration on the billing, =>payments and => abatements/adjustments to out-of-town water & sewer customers. => =>5) A presentation and up-date from the administration on the SEA =>consultants sulfite and => corrosion problems. At our last SCPW meeting the Acting Director of =>Public Works stated => we would have the report by the SCPW meeting originally set for =>1/22/02. We were told that => the delay in the SCPW receiving the report was due to "a review of =>preliminary reports that => required changes". As was the case when the SEA report on the =>Edgewater pumping station => was modified in my request to the administration I will ask for =>copies of all preliminary notes, => meetings and reports. => =>6) A presentation and up-date from the administration on all Framingham =>violations of MWRA => limits and the responses of the Town to these MWRA notices. => =>7) A proposed new revenue for Framingham Sewer Enterprise fund. => =>8) Action on Town Meeting directive to report back at the next annual =>town meeting with => proposed policies and bylaws that recognize the priority of local =>traffic when considering the => changing of the traffic flow. In addition, said policies and bylaws =>shall require public hearings => be held on any proposed change with written notice of said hearings =>given to all residents on => the local roads that will be affected. => =>PAGE ONE OF TWO PAGE SCPW NOTICE Some of the additional information =>requested from the Town Manager DOESKIN PROJECT: A presentation and =>up-date by you or your staff on the proposed water pumping station at => Grove & Edmands (for the Doeskin Betterment) and => a) When the town engineer appeared before the SCPW at its public =>hearing on the proposed pumping station => on SVT Land he stated the pumping station would be designed to =>look like a barn in keeping with the => neighborhood. He ask the SCPW to continue its hearing until he =>had a design of the "Barn type pumping => station". If we are only moving the pumping station to another =>site in the same neighborhood, why aren't => you still using the "Barn type pumping station"? => => b) In the original explanation the land now being proposed for the =>pumping station was rejected because it => was reserved to correct "a very dangerous traffic problem". =>The SCPW needs an explanation of what => solved "this very dangerous traffic problem". How was this land =>obtained and was it restricted to use by => the acquiring action? => => c) Now shown on the maps of the relocated pumping station is a 12" =>water line going from the 16" line on => Grove Street to the north side of Edmands Rd. right in front of =>the proposed alternates 2A & 2B pipe-line => routes. Instead of the now proposed corner location why isn't =>the pumping station moved to the north side => of Edmands Rd. utilizing this 12" line? Wouldn't it involve a =>lot less piping, digging and blasting and => therefore be cheaper? Didn't the town engineer at the 2/4/02 =>BPW meeting express his opinion that the => present proposal maybe over budget and require further town =>meeting action? => => d) In view of the conflicting interpretations between the Town =>Manager and the Chair of the SCPW on the => meaning of the Town Meeting vote on the so-called Doeskin =>Articles these Articles maybe put back into => the 2002 annual Town meeting. => =>ARTHUR STREET: A presentation by you or your staff on the Arthur Street =>pumping Station including: => A) An answer to last years question on who owns the Arthur Street =>pumping station land, if it is the MWRA => when and how did they get title to the land? => => B) The amount of chemicals now being stored, and the amount being =>used per day, at the Arthur Street site as => of 2/1/02, as well as, who is paying for them and the annual =>costs. => => C) An up-date on plans for the Arthur Street pumping station by the =>MWRA. => =>EDGEWATER DR. PUMPING STATION:A presentation and up-date by you or your =>staff on the design of, as well => as the time table for, replacing the Sewer pumping station on =>Edgewater Drive. => =>MWRA: => A) A presentation and up-date by you or your staff on all =>Framingham violations of MWRA limits and copies of => the responses of the Town to these MWRA notices. => => B) An up-date by you or your staff on any legal action between the =>town and the MWRA. (as per statement by => Mr. Alkhatib at the BPW meeting of 2/4/02). => => C) A presentation by you or your staff on any chemicals being used =>in the Framingham sewer system => including: the amount stored in Framingham, the cost of said =>chemicals and how they are being placed => in the Framingham system. The following appears in the MWRA =>Advisory Board report dated => 1/9/02 "Additionally, Framingham officials are considering more =>chemical additions and the => organization of a "Grease Police" to monitor area restaurants" => => D) NATICK ENFORCEMENT; There are many restaurants located in Natick =>that use the Framingham sewer => line. This concern was first raised by the SCPW sub-committee =>in 2000. These sources include the Natick => Mall and other Speen Street establishments. What are the plans =>for monitoring these establishments? => How will Framingham enforce grease regulations? How will =>Framingham bill these Natick customers for => violations? More importantly how will you guarantee payment of =>any charges, in view of the fact that the => majority of the present Board of Selectmen, at your =>recommendation, rejected the suggestion of => deposits made by the SCPW. => => Sincerely; => => => Francis X. Reilly, Chair SCPW, =>Precinct 7 -- -Time flies like the wind. Fruit flies like a banana. Stranger things have - -happened but none stranger than this. Does your driver's license say Organ -Donor?Black holes are where God divided by zero. Listen to me! We are all- -individuals! What if this weren't a hypothetical question? [EMAIL PROTECTED] [ To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]?body=unsubscribe Archives available at http://www.mail-archive.com/ For help send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web interface at http://frambors.syslang.net]
