<p>University of Massachusetts Amherst civil and environmental engineers have determined the factors that may help identify the schools and daycare centers at greatest risk for elevated levels of lead in drinking water. The most telling characteristic for schools in Massachusetts is building age, with facilities built in the 1960s and 1970s—nearly a third of the facilities tested—at the greatest risk for having dangerously high water lead levels. </p>
The Tisbury Board of Health has declined a request from a local realtors association to reconsider its new nitrogen regulations, sticking with their intentions of improving water quality in Lake Tashmoo and Lagoon Pond by upgrading backyard septic systems. The Cape Cod and Islands Realtors Association sent a letter to the board earlier this month […]
New Bedford received $11.4 million in loan forgiveness funds from the Massachusetts Clean Water Fund for money spent to upgrade the City's wastewater systems.
New Bedford received $11.4 million in loan forgiveness funds from the Massachusetts Clean Water Fund for money spent to upgrade the City's wastewater systems.