Saturday May 14 from 10:00 AM to 1:00 PM at Chilson Beach (Beaver Pond)
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Get ready for Saturday, May 21 - Recycling event at Beaver Pond |
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Get ready for Saturday, May 21 - Recycling event at Beaver Pond |
The annual community clean up activities are scheduled for Saturday, Apr 23, 2022. For over 20 years, the Town of Franklin has conducted this event in an effort to educate the public on recycling, beautification, and general clean up of the town.
Earth Day is celebrated on Friday, April 22nd throughout the United States. Franklin will host their own Earth Day on Saturday April 23 this year!You can pre-register at: https://franklinma.myrec.com/info/activities/program_details.aspx?ProgramID=29880
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Register to help Franklin clean up for Earth Day - Apr 23 |
"The cleanup of Boston Harbor is incomplete
Largely unknown to the public, raw sewage is still dumped into the Mystic and Charles rivers, which empty directly into the harbor."
"The cleanup of Boston Harbor is considered one of the great environmental success stories of our time — and deservedly so. It has helped transform the quality of life in the metro Boston area as residents and businesses live, work, and play near the newly cleaned up harbor and the rivers that feed into it.
But sadly, and largely unknown to the public, raw sewage is still dumped into the Mystic and Charles rivers that empty right into the harbor. Depending on the volume of rainfall and snowmelt, up to 500 million gallons of sewage mixed with storm water are discharged into the harbor via the two rivers every year.
These discharges flow from old underground pipe networks known as combined sewer systems, engineering relics that were designed to collect rainwater runoff, domestic sewage, and industrial wastewater in the same pipe leading to a treatment plant. But during periods of heavy rainfall or snowmelt, the wastewater volume can exceed the pipe’s capacity, causing a combined sewer overflow, or CSO, that dumps the polluted contents directly into the rivers."
"A reminder the clean up of DelCarte is scheduled for this Saturday from 9:00 AM thru Noon.
Refreshments, gloves, trash bags, masks (if needed) plus credits for clubs and schools …. Community Service 3 hours.
We look forward to seeing folks there."
Franklin Conservation Commission
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clean up for DelCarte on Saturday, Oct 16 |
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Franklin dog park at Dacey Field |
Quick Recap:
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As with most meetings in this pandemic period, I took my notes via Twitter during the meeting reporting in real-time via the virtual session.
The Twitter hashtag can be found online #edc0414
https://twitter.com/search?q=%23edc0414&src=typed_query
Photos captured during the meeting and shared via Twitter can be found in one album
https://photos.app.goo.gl/VYYiLMPgyGuf7xtx5
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Recap - Economic Development SubComm Meeting - Apr 14, 2021 |
"As most work places shut their doors, employees adjust to working from home and consumers get used to once-weekly shopping trips with face coverings and gloves, one South Shore business is working overtime to make sure airplanes, grocery stores and other essential spaces are still safe for the public: Clean Harbors.
“As it hit hot spots, so did we,” Clean Harbors Senior Vice President Chuck Geer said. “Our movements really did mimic the COVID-19 spread and our responses have spiked almost simultaneously with the virus cases.”
Clean Harbors is one of the nation’s leaders in decontamination, and has been for decades. The Norwell-based business has responded after major events such as the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks and the Gulf Oil Spill, as well as the swine flu spread and H1N1 scare, but as is true for most businesses, a pandemic is new territory.
“It’s completely new to us, America hasn’t seen a true pandemic like this and neither have we,” Geer said Tuesday. “But really, there are a lot of similarities between this kind of clean up and any type of infectious waste. . . The chemicals we use to destroy the virus may change up, but really it’s the same principal.”
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https://www.cleanharbors.com/ |
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Celebrate the 50th Anniversary of Earth Day |
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the floating walkway at DelCarte recently |
"Although nobody in the community has been reported ill with the novel coronavirus, COVID-19, the town is looking to allay any concerns -- and take preventative action -- by wiping its municipal spaces clean.Continue reading the article online (subscription may be required)
Town Administrator Jamie Hellen said Franklin has engaged the services of an independent vendor to sanitize the town’s public buildings over this weekend as a precaution.
From the municipal building to the senior center and library, to public spaces of the police and fire departments, officials want to ensure that residents feel confident when they need to stop in at town buildings amidst concerns about COVID-19.
“It feels like a step to take when you can say we have a new baseline,” Hellen said."
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"We really want to make sure people do not panic, wash their hands and do the simple things they can do” |
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cleaning of its brick hallways |
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cleaning of its brick hallways 2 |
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Earth Day - Beaver Pond - Sat, Apr 27 - 9 AM |
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The Franklin dog park at Dacey Field on a sunny summer day |
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