Nor'easter quadruples sewer plant flows
From Somerset News
- Conservation Commission takes up Massasoit Park gazebo fight. Somerset Conservation Commission weighed a 24-by-12-foot gazebo addition to Massasoit Park against neighbors' erosion and nighttime parking complaints, eyeing no-parking signage and motion-lighting fixes with police.Somerset News
- Planning Board sets Oct. 20 hearing on road bond. Somerset's Planning Board voted to schedule an October 20 hearing on seizing developer Tim Cabral's bond for the unfinished Luther's Landing subdivision after he missed a deadline to pave Carissa Lane, with a resident citing his two blind children's need for safe access.Somerset News
- Zoning Board weighs Meineke shop on Route 6. Zoning Board took up a Meineke auto repair shop proposal for 266 Slades Ferry Boulevard, as neighbor Vanessa Barlow objected and the operator offered to limit hours and shut off the lit sign overnight.Somerset News
- Recreation board weighs splash pad over basketball funding. Somerset's Recreation Commission pushed to rank a long-delayed Pierce Beach splash pad ahead of a planned Pottersville basketball court rebuild for Community Preservation Act funding, with submissions due October 14 and funding decided November 9.Somerset News
- Nor'easter quadruples sewer plant flows. A weekend nor'easter pushed Somerset's sewer flows from about 4 million to 16 million gallons a day, quadrupling the treatment plant's design capacity and triggering chlorine-residual violations, the Board of Water and Sewer Commissioners heard Tuesday.Somerset News
- Battery storage peer review flags no soil contamination. A peer reviewer for Somerset's contested Riverside Avenue battery storage project told the Zoning Board his firm finds no reportable soil or groundwater contamination at the site, though he still wants hydrogen fluoride and particulate data added before an October 15 hearing.Somerset News
Somerset on Tue, Oct 6
- Travel site spotlights Somerset's waterfront park. A travel blog highlighted Village Waterfront Park on the Taunton River at 300 Main St. as a quiet spot locals use to watch boats, according to Fastfoodclub.com.Fastfoodclub.com
Coming up
- Mon, Oct 12: Library closes Monday for Columbus Day. Somerset Public Library will be closed Monday, October 12, for Columbus Day, but will keep its regular 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. hours the Saturday before, October 10.Somerset Public Library
More events and things to do →
Browse this week: Government & development · Events & things to do
Every past edition
Know a newsletter, official, or group we should be reading? Reply to this email and name it.
Compiled from official town feeds, community organizations, and local press. Outside reporting is attributed inline.