Correction! Just checked town Website and I stand corrected. The meeting is
at 7:00 n0t 7: 30. T hank you
at 7:00 n0t 7: 30. T hank you
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From: "Victoria Adams" <<email obscured>>
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Sent: Wednesday, October 14, 2015 1:16:45 PM
Subject: Re: [FramGov] 350 Irving Street and environmental clean up
Isn't the meeting at Woodrow Wilson scheduled to begin at 7pm?
Victoria Adams
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> On Oct 14, 2015, at 12:34 PM, <email obscured> wrote:
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> It has been just over a year since this Environmental Property has been
brought to our attention. We learned that businesses re nting space on this 22
acre hazardous waste site have been operating with either no p ermits or
expired permits which brought the ZBA into play . In this past year we
have attended many ZBA meetings and seen the Board of Health, Building
Inspection Service, and Co nservation Commission appearing at the ZBA
reporting of various problems and working together to set this site right.
Eversource, the owner of this property, has f inally shown up at these past two
meetings. The MWRA, although not present at any meetings has finally taken
notice after many calls and letters to the MWRA and has gone to this site to
inspect the Sudbury Aqueduct. The aqued uct runs right through this property
as Landscape Depot has encroached on this as well as having leakage into this
back up water system for the MWRA. Many townspeople have also attended these
meetings and have been allowed to speak and given ample time to voice their
opinions by the Chairman of the ZBA .
>
> Has this facility been shut down as we would like to see? No, not yet. But
I am encouraged by the progress that has been made in one year . Being i
nvolved with other Environmental projects I k now that remediation is not
easy, and not quick. First we need to recognize the danger and then go after
the responsible parties to c lean up their messes.
>
> Although Landscape Depot is on the Southeast Side of Framingham, this is not
a Southe ast side problem this is a town problem and that is why I urge you to
attend the Information Session being held Tomorrow (October 15, 2015) at 7:30
P.M. at the Woodrow Wilson School on Leland St.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
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> From: "Lloyd Kaye" <<email obscured>>
> To: framgov@forums.e-democracy.org
> Sent: Wednesday, October 14, 2015 6:41:38 AM
> Subject: [FramGov] 350 Irving Street and environmental clean up
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> It is a long and very frustrating process. To attempt to have what is most
likely the most polluted property in Framingham-cleaned up. The meetings with
multiple departments for months on end seem to have---no end. What seems so
clear-as a course of action somehow is continually deterred. I would like to
actually thank the chairmen of the ZBA to allow the public its voice...over and
over again. There are a number of committees who do not allow the public its
voice. The situation at 350 - at its heart - is the environmental disaster
which sits near its surface and goes down as much as 75 feet or more. It is all
over the 20 acre property and properties that border it. There are still 5
companies operating on its surface. All of them without a permit. The
frustration- includes the owner of the property, Eversource- who is addressing
the issue as slowly as possible -since cleaning the property will cost many
millions of dollars. I agree it is difficult...But I believe there is a clear
path. The people who live there have the inherent right to live in an
environmentally safe place for their families,..In my opinion that is the
number one interest and the driving force that should be guiding the towns
government. It is a frustrating process. For sure. Eversource DOES have the
funds to clean the site. We would like to see the testing---and there are years
worth of testing planned--to be completed in a reasonable but short period of
time. Eversource- because it does not want to spend the money would love to
drag this out for decades. We would like it completed a bit sooner. - We DO
have a chance of cleaning this entire part of town and increasing its value to
the rest of Framingham. Yes its frustrating...but I think we will achieve our
goal in a reasonable time period. I do thank - again - the ZBA for giving the
public the forum to discuss the matter in public. It is not easy. For the
people who breathe in the air near this site...time - should not be driven by
Eversource.
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From: "Victoria Adams" <<email obscured>>
To: framgov@forums.e-democracy.org
Sent: Wednesday, October 14, 2015 1:16:45 PM
Subject: Re: [FramGov] 350 Irving Street and environmental clean up
Isn't the meeting at Woodrow Wilson scheduled to begin at 7pm?
Victoria Adams
Sent from my iPhone
> On Oct 14, 2015, at 12:34 PM, <email obscured> wrote:
>
>
> It has been just over a year since this Environmental Property has been
brought to our attention. We learned that businesses re nting space on this 22
acre hazardous waste site have been operating with either no p ermits or
expired permits which brought the ZBA into play . In this past year we
have attended many ZBA meetings and seen the Board of Health, Building
Inspection Service, and Co nservation Commission appearing at the ZBA
reporting of various problems and working together to set this site right.
Eversource, the owner of this property, has f inally shown up at these past two
meetings. The MWRA, although not present at any meetings has finally taken
notice after many calls and letters to the MWRA and has gone to this site to
inspect the Sudbury Aqueduct. The aqued uct runs right through this property
as Landscape Depot has encroached on this as well as having leakage into this
back up water system for the MWRA. Many townspeople have also attended these
meetings and have been allowed to speak and given ample time to voice their
opinions by the Chairman of the ZBA .
>
> Has this facility been shut down as we would like to see? No, not yet. But
I am encouraged by the progress that has been made in one year . Being i
nvolved with other Environmental projects I k now that remediation is not
easy, and not quick. First we need to recognize the danger and then go after
the responsible parties to c lean up their messes.
>
> Although Landscape Depot is on the Southeast Side of Framingham, this is not
a Southe ast side problem this is a town problem and that is why I urge you to
attend the Information Session being held Tomorrow (October 15, 2015) at 7:30
P.M. at the Woodrow Wilson School on Leland St.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
>
> From: "Lloyd Kaye" <<email obscured>>
> To: framgov@forums.e-democracy.org
> Sent: Wednesday, October 14, 2015 6:41:38 AM
> Subject: [FramGov] 350 Irving Street and environmental clean up
>
> It is a long and very frustrating process. To attempt to have what is most
likely the most polluted property in Framingham-cleaned up. The meetings with
multiple departments for months on end seem to have---no end. What seems so
clear-as a course of action somehow is continually deterred. I would like to
actually thank the chairmen of the ZBA to allow the public its voice...over and
over again. There are a number of committees who do not allow the public its
voice. The situation at 350 - at its heart - is the environmental disaster
which sits near its surface and goes down as much as 75 feet or more. It is all
over the 20 acre property and properties that border it. There are still 5
companies operating on its surface. All of them without a permit. The
frustration- includes the owner of the property, Eversource- who is addressing
the issue as slowly as possible -since cleaning the property will cost many
millions of dollars. I agree it is difficult...But I believe there is a clear
path. The people who live there have the inherent right to live in an
environmentally safe place for their families,..In my opinion that is the
number one interest and the driving force that should be guiding the towns
government. It is a frustrating process. For sure. Eversource DOES have the
funds to clean the site. We would like to see the testing---and there are years
worth of testing planned--to be completed in a reasonable but short period of
time. Eversource- because it does not want to spend the money would love to
drag this out for decades. We would like it completed a bit sooner. - We DO
have a chance of cleaning this entire part of town and increasing its value to
the rest of Framingham. Yes its frustrating...but I think we will achieve our
goal in a reasonable time period. I do thank - again - the ZBA for giving the
public the forum to discuss the matter in public. It is not easy. For the
people who breathe in the air near this site...time - should not be driven by
Eversource.
> Lloyd Kaye PCT 16 TMM
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