Technical Assistance Grants Awardees Include Town of Westminster MA
According to State of MA, the town of Westminster is receiving $20,000: “Westminster will use its award to engage technical expertise to review and interpret disposal site documents and information for the Bean Porridge Hill Road Area disposal site to increase public awareness by serving as a resource to town officials and the public. Contaminants of concern include PFAS impacting residential drinking water wells. “ Each of the grants awarded for 2024 support effective public involvement during the assessment and cleanup of oil and hazardous material disposal sites. More details from State of MA Website, CLICK HERE.
Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection Commissioner Bonnie Heiple stated, “We’re pleased to make this resource available to inform and empower municipal officials and citizen groups to meaningfully participate in local assessment and cleanup efforts.”
Each of the grants are in the amount of $20,000. Here is the list of communities who were awarded the grant. To Westfield “ Westfield Residents Advocating for Themselves will use its award to engage technical expertise to review and interpret disposal site documents and information for the Barnes Air National Guard Base “, to Greater Hynanis Civic Association, “to engage technical expertise to review and interpret disposal site documents and information for the Cape Cod Gateway Municipal Airport, “ to Lunt Neighborhood Action Group for Greenfield, “to engage technical expertise to evaluate and interpret existing information about the Former Lunt Silversmith Site in Greenfield to encourage better public participation in the ongoing cleanup.”, for Town of Barnstable “to engage technical expertise to review and evaluate site documents for the Barnstable County Fire Training Academy disposal site”, for Town of Carlisle Board of Health, “to obtain technical expertise to review and evaluate environmental data from the former Daisy Gasoline Station disposal site’, Duxbury Safe Water Committee, Inc. “will use its award to engage technical expertise to review and interpret disposal site documents and information for the Former Duxbury Landfill (McNeil Dump) and the Duxbury Municipal Landfill.”, and Town of Lee, “Lee will use its award to engage technical expertise to review and interpret information about the Upland Disposal Facility, an area permitted by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for storage of contaminated sediments from the Housatonic River Superfund Site.