[CPEO-BIF] Case Estates, Weston, Massachusetts

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

A look at what's behind the Case Estates delay

By Elizabeth K. Daly
Weston Town Crier (MA)
January 11, 2007

"The best laid plans of mice and men can sometimes go awry."
How well that saying applies to the Case Estates sale. On the night of 
Nov. 8, Weston voters left the special Town Meeting happy and pleased. 
In a unanimous vote, Town Meeting had just authorized Weston’s purchase 
of the Case Estates from Harvard University for $22.5 million (plus some 
extra for incidental expenses). Everyone went home thinking the town 
would soon own the Case Estates, and the specter of development on that 
land so dear to everyone’s heart would soon be banished. But, to 
paraphrase Stephen Sondheim, a funny thing happened on the way to the 
closing.

...

On the basis of this discovery, Gale recommended to the selectmen a more 
in-depth survey because former apple orchards are known to be notorious 
repositories of arsenic residues. This second survey would be a 
laboratory analysis of soil samples.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.townonline.com/weston/homepage/8999010451454951423

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Lenny Siegel
Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
c/o PSC, 278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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