Friday, June 29, 2018
Route 202 needs some checking, 2 police officers, fire truck, ambulance along with about a mile or more of speedy dry on the road. Serious fuel leak? Highway/DPW truck. This requires some detailed checking, as a fuel spill of this nature requires reporting and usually leads to fines and / or cleanup costs, near to closed Templeton dump, environmental issues? Conservation commission, better check this out? Developmental services? Board of Selectmen, ah, somebody may need to wake them up, as this was around 11:00 A.M today.
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not to worry put some fluoride on it and it will get better
ReplyDeleteSorry, we can NOT complete this call as dialed.
ReplyDeleteIt is a FRIDAY! No one home so to speak.
Templeton can only have crises Monday through Thursday during normal working hours.
TAB MAN - You are so silly. In Templeton, fluoride is used to locate water main breaks not for cleaning up fuel spills.
Thanks for the shout out, though! It is always good to see fluoride has made it into the vernacular of Templeton's finest...
Try talking into the electical meter Mrs Farrell that way more people like you can share the knowledge.
ReplyDeleteDrove down 202 and observed a Mass. DOT truck, Templeton ambulance, Templeton fire truck, templeton police SUV, Gardner DPW dump truck and a street sweeper taking care of cleaning of the speedy dri and sand covering over a mile of road. Unsure of if it was a Gardner truck spill or was it mutual aid. There should be an interesting dispatch log report on this. There should also be some reporting in the best town administrator report.
ReplyDeleteI wonder if Gardner was here acting as our DPW Director since our fill-in director Carter is off today.........
ReplyDeleteIsn't 202 a State rd..........anyone know how that situation plays out?
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DeleteI did see a Gardner highway dump truck pulling out of the new junk yard where there giving all that loam away free! im sure someone on the Gardner highway was using there equipment for personal use maybe ? Gardner is in the other direction ..just my opinion
ReplyDeleteMike, Your talking about that mineral rich soil on Baldwinville rd correct?
ReplyDeleteYes the one along rt2
ReplyDeleteIt was the Gardner truck that had the tank rupture, it made it to the rest area just before Bills on maple st. Saw them filling the tank back up.
ReplyDeleteJesus, H ... after 40 .. wait 50 years of hazardous waste being dumped into town watersheds under municipal governments watchful eyes now you all are alarmed about what may or may not be a spill of any magnitude that would cause the citizens to be affected in any measurable way.
ReplyDeleteAMazing - The people who post here were all around back then I imagine ( I don’t think anyone posting here is a newcomer ).
No worries about any of the sites listed as still active or not under a permanent solution? Not worried about the towns latest hazardous waste site - welcomed by You all as “ some revenue is better than none “ .
Just think of all the oil and hazardous waste that will be washed into your soil and into groundwater and also “ treated “ at the waste water plant ( hows those MS4 permits going ? )
You all will have lots to drive around looking at soon.
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DeleteJustsmartenuff, ??? I think Totalidiot fits better
ReplyDeleteI'm sure that was (just an observation) correct?
DeleteCould be !
DeleteProvide some facts that what I wrote above is not factual and actually available online ( DEP, EPA filings ) . Or, do you just resort to name calling ?
ReplyDeleteWell, for the benefit of justsmartenough, 50 years ago, I was like 12 and in 1978, I departed Templeton, not returning until 2004. That was just in time to see over 900 Templeton residents fight against Templeton becoming involved in the landfill business. I do remember the old, old Town dump off the Barre Road where everyone dumped anything and everything. There was a running brook at the bottom and today, if still running, is probably all sorts of colors and very contaminated. I just think it is important that people are aware of a large spill involving fuel on a public way. Those things need to be in the open, especially if they involve municipal equipment. For the record, I do not favor another salvage auto operation coming to Town. But the planning board members have to make a living you know. Templeton should be getting into the hemp business and become a true farming community again.
ReplyDeleteWell, Mr Bennett I Thankyou for opposing the salvage business but to really oppose one would have to speak to that on camera at your meeting and theirs. That never happened .
ReplyDeleteThe 202 landfill is unlined and leaking that I assure you ( as every landfill leaks ) I hope your BOH monitors those test wells .
Hemp yes, you any everyone else wants to get in on that. Great presentation on that at as well on TCTV.
To become a “true farming “ community - Templeton does nothing to attract that. No tax incentives for them , horrible watershed protections and an abundance of superfund sites along with a river that is heavily contaminated to this day ( that has 1 paper mill and 3 wastewater plants discharging into it before it meanders thru tempelton ) .
No , it should be an incentive period . The town gave and still gives ...incentives for industrial polluters to build and remain in town.
ReplyDeleteSocializing the “cleanup “ to the tune of millions of dollars just at Temple Stuart epa site alone.
In my opinion, incentives need to be a two way street, as in asked for and answered for; such as are there tax incentives or permit fee waivers available? From what I observed from the agricultural meeting where hemp farming was discussed, it was stated that by growing hemp, that plant extracts or sucks up heavy metals from the soil, which if true, should be a no brainer to grow the stuff, harvest it and use it for some manufactured product. Having said that, before we begin giving away stuff to get another taxpayer into to Templeton, management (T/A & selectmen) should try and help out the taxpayers already here, as in Laurel View Road and those to ladies who went before the selectmen seeking some kind of relief and were basically told no and now go away. Great advertisement and incentive to do business in and with Templeton, don't you think?
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DeleteI found it very interesting. Bill Sr Crouix talking about the guy in western MA. I plan to try and get more information about that process and the ability to process the material after its removed from the ground.
Could be very interesting in town, but we'll see. We need to get out of the box.
https://www.mass.gov/files/documents/2017/12/04/Housing%20Rehabilitation.pdf As with everything Mr Bennett - things are more complicated than perhaps you advertise. But, as usual - fan the flames.
ReplyDeleteSo you can sit at your computer and blow not air ?
DeleteJust like you Bev Bart.
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