[CPEO-MEF] Hadley (MA) to treat water for perchlorate

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Water treatment backed

By DIANE LEDERMAN
Springfield Republican (MA)
April 21, 2005

HADLEY - The Board of Selectmen, which is also the town's water
commission, would like to go ahead with building the treatment facility
for the Callahan wells. 

The board last night met with water consultants from Comprehensive
Environmental Inc. of Merrimack, N.H., which have been reviewing the
town's water issues. The consultants presented the board with a fee
schedule with and without the treatment facility. Town Meeting May 5
must approve the appropriation for the facility. 

Town water rates will rise even without the treatment facility because
they are not adequate to meet projected operating budgets, according to
the consultants' report. 

But with the additional cost of building the treatment facility with a
2-percent state loan, the town's average water user would pay about $50
a year more. 

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.masslive.com/hampfrank/republican/index.ssf?/base/news-9/111406988560851.xml&coll=1

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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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