WATER WAS very much on the mind of Fire Chief Phillip Charron, who presented a report titled “The Potential for Flooding” to the Lowell City Council Tuesday night.
LOWELL Normally, Lowell Fire Chief Phillip Charron directs the efforts to douse fires with water, but in his dual-hatted role as director of the Office of Emergency Management, he's also focused on dousing flooding issues.
BILLERICA — John Flynn’s brother was raped and murdered at age 12, found in the Carter Avenue woods next to Route 4 and the Concord River. But now, this cold-case crime scene is a place of celebration. Flynn, 71, of Sanford, Maine, recently placed a stone plaque memorial in the woods for his brother, Eddie, […]
LOWELL The city has been assessed a $200,000 civil penalty by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection for violating provisions of the Clean Water Act associated with combined sewer overflows, said Aaron Fox, the executive director of Lowell Regional Wastewater Utility, also known as Duck Island.