"The federal Environmental Protection Agency has begun seeking community input regarding a Superfund site in town - an early step in the cleanup process.
EPA representatives were in Franklin on Thursday and Friday last week, looking for ways to better inform residents about the Fisher Street site and future efforts there.
The agency placed the BJAT, LLC property at 300 Fisher St. on its National Priorities List (NPL) in September 2015. That land, according to officials, has been used for industrial purposes since the late 1800s, and was last used for rubber and plastic manufacture. The facility there has been inactive since 1985."Continue reading the article online (subscription may be required)
http://www.milforddailynews.com/news/20161010/franklin-epa-reaching-out-on-superfund-site
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| some of the FHS students making the plastic bag ban proposal to the Town Council Sep 21 |
"A group of Franklin High School students has asked the town to consider a ban on "single use" plastic shopping bags in an effort to make Franklin more environmentally friendly.
The group - comprised of mostly seniors and some juniors - spoke before the Town Council in September, and a bylaw will be on a future meeting's agenda.
Alycia Felli, one of the group's organizers, said this week that the impetus for the ban came from a class at the high school.
"All of us are enrolled in an AP environmental science course, and our teacher really opened our eyes about tiny solutions that could ameliorate environmental degradation," Felli said, noting that the course brought up a bag ban. "I saw that and went, 'Oh my gosh, this is something I could even do.'"
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http://www.milforddailynews.com/news/20161010/franklin-students-seek-bag-ban
- A copy of the proposed bylaw can be found here
http://town.franklin.ma.us/Pages/FranklinMA_News/024F3878-000F8513
- or here
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B0wjbnXDBhczb0FXRTBuSUNBamc/view?usp=sharing
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