The MetroWest Daily News reports:
Neighbors battling a 200-unit housing project planned for the grounds of an old illegal dump say the proposed development threatens the town water supply.“The more units, the more risk,” said John Lynch, a Prentice Street resident with the Holliston Hopkinton Action Committee. “I’m sure something could be developed that would not pose a threat.”
The Zoning Board of Appeals will continue its hearing on the proposed Cedar Ridge Estates project tonight at 7 in the [Holliston] high school library.
But project developer J. Michael Norton of Greenview Realty said there is no significant risk to residents. “We have the facts and they have opinions,” said Norton.
Located at the 52-acre Bird property on Marshall Street, the project would include 200 housing units, a private wastewater system, plus hiking trails and tennis courts on land which once was an illegal dump.
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An area of the property is contaminated with trichloroethylene, and some residents worry that chemical could be pushed into the town water supply with the use of a wastewater treatment system for the proposed project.
Officials should conduct a hydrogeologic study — assessing any risk to the water supply — before the ZBA makes a decision on the project, said Lynch.
“We think doing this without a hydrogeologic study borders on the reckless,” he said.
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