Boston Spends Stimulus Money To Clean Up Polluted Sites
Mayor Thomas Menino visited a vacant lot in Roxbury on Tuesday to discuss how the city is using federal stimulus money to clean up contaminated sites. (Fred Thys/WBUR)
BOSTON — Boston is spending some of its federal stimulus money to clean up contaminated sites.
Mayor Thomas Menino said the city has saved or created 1,600 jobs with federal stimulus money.
On Tuesday, Mayor Menino stood in a fenced-in vacant lot in Dorchester, the site of a former car dealership, to talk about how Boston is using the money.
Gail Lattimore, executive director of the Codman Square Neighborhood Development Corp., said federal money will pay to clean up the site in order to build 24 units of affordable housing.
“About 75 people will have a home right on this site in about 24 months,” Lattimer said.
The city has received $720,000 to clean up contaminated sites in Dorchester and Roxbury. In all, Menino said Boston has spent $175 million in stimulus money.
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Western suburbs are about to have their own contamination problems. My friend Rob Hartz of Littleton emailed me this alert –
Norfolk Southern and its New England-based partner Pan Am with its lengthy record of environmental violations and criminal convictions are threatening my town’s drinking water. Herbicides may the least of our problems.
Rest assured railroads are well-protected; your drinking water is not. When you are in their sites you may be shocked to learn that anything goes.
My name is Rob Hartz, head of Coalition for Aquifer Protection and a business consultant specializing in leadership and organizational change.
For the past 11 years, my organization and our allies have been fighting an uphill battle to protect the drinking water of two Massachusetts towns. The underground water source or aquifer is threatened by a major polluter, a railroad named Pan Am and it’s senior partner, Norfolk Southern. When I began telling friends and neighbors that our water was at risk, their response was, “what about the EPA and the Safe Drinking Water Act of 1974?”
If you are in the path of a railroad with a lamentable history of environmental violations and are troubled by the response you get from regulators and political leaders, you are not alone.
For more information call (978) 952-6533 or e-mail me at robhartz@verizon.net.