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Natick may purchase carbon filters to reduce PFAS contamination at the Springvale treatment plant. (Neal McNamara/Patch)
NATICK, MA Natick Town Meeting will soon take up a proposal to spend $3 million to reduce PFAS contamination at one of the town s main water treatment plants.
Earlier this year, Natick discovered levels of PFAS chemicals were above the state minimum threshold at the Springvale H&T treatment facility. The state maximum threshold is 20 parts per trillion (ppt), but the levels at two locations at Springvale have measured 24 ppt and 21 ppt on average in recent months.
Under state law, communities that detect elevated PFAS levels must work on long and short-term fixes for the problem. For now, Natick has reduced its reliance on Springvale for drinking water. For the long-term fix, Natick would spend $3 million to install carbon filters at Springvale to remove PFAS, and to build a new structure to house the filters.
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With at least one COVID-19 shot in the arms of more than half of Massachusetts adults and almost two months elapsed since that four-legged orange octopus heralded a website fail, it s been a while since Gov. Charlie Baker and Health and Human Services Secretary Marylou Sudders have had to return to their go-to adjectives for hiccups in the state s vaccine rollout: lumpy and bumpy.
Last week, it was the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention s turn. Our partners will be working to reschedule people who have the J&J vaccine appointments in the days ahead, Dr. Anne Schuchat, principal deputy director of the CDC, said Tuesday. This may be a bit bumpy. We want to make sure that we re getting the word out to the public and to our providers.
The twist is that one of Natick’s Town Meeting members was there.
Sue Ianni, a Town Meeting member who faces charges for entering the Capitol after Trump supporters broke into the building, told the
MetroWest Daily News on Wednesday that she believes the non-binding resolution amounts to “political persecution of conservatives.” Advertisement
“They want to shut me up,” Ianni told the newspaper.
The resolution which was reportedly passed by a vote of 113-20, with seven abstentions called the Jan. 6 riot a “despicable act,” adding that Town Meeting members “condemn the actions of any and all persons who took part in this heinous act, and declare that they in no way represent the sentiments of this body, or of the Town of Natick.” It did not name Ianni.
NATICK Sue Ianni believes she’s being persecuted by some Town Meeting members.
Ianni, a Town Meeting member herself, shared her opinions Wednesday morning after the representative body overwhelmingly voted Tuesday night to condemn the Jan. 6 riots inside the U.S. Capitol.
The final vote on the nonbinding resolution was 113-20, with seven abstentions.
“It’s political persecution of conservatives,” Ianni told the Daily News in a phone interview.
Ianni faces charges in connection with the riots after a published photograph showed her inside the Capitol, raising her right arm in defiance among a throng of protesters.
She faces two charges: knowingly entering or remaining in any restricted building or grounds without lawful authority; and disorderly conduct on Capitol grounds. Ianni’s next scheduled court hearing is May 28.
NATICK A Town Meeting member plans to introduce a resolution that condemns the actions of those who took part in the Jan. 6 riot inside the U.S. Capitol.
Jay Ball, a 30-year member of the elected body, will present his resolution during tonight’s first session of Town Meeting.
Posted on the town’s website, the resolution calls the riot a “despicable act.”
“…be it resolved that we, the duly elected Members of Natick Town Meeting, condemn the actions of any and all persons who took part in this act of sedition, and declare that they in no way represent the sentiments of this body, or of the Town of Natick,” the resolution reads in part.