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Environmental group puts Wheelabrator on notice of possible federal court action to require groundwater monitoring at ash landfill By Mark E. Vogler
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he Conser vation Law Foundation (CLF) this week warned Wheelabrator Technologies, Inc. it will seek a court order – if necessary – to require the company to install a groundwater monitoring system in the area around its ash landfill located near its trash-to-energy incinerator on Route 107. In an eight-page registered letter to Wheelabra-
tor’s President and CEO, Robert Boucher Jr., and Saugus Plant Manager Peter Kendrigan, the environmental group outlined its “Notice of Intent to File Suit for Violations of the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act and the Clean Water Act” at the ash landfill. “Upon information and belief, Wheelabrator is not conducting any groundwater monitoring at the Saugus ash landfill, in violation of RCRA regulations and the
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A Parade of Purple Hearts Nine Saugus war heroes will lead Memorial Day procession as grand marshals
state permitting programs implementing RCRA regulations,” CLF Staff Attorney Heather A. Murray wrote in her letter threatening a federal lawsuit. “Wheelabrator has operated and expanded, and continues to operate and expand, the ash landfill without any information whatsoever about which pollutants, and in what quantities, are leaching into the surround-
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MEMORIAL DAY ART: Students from the Tuesday art class at Veterans Memorial Elementary School created this poster to express their feelings about what Memorial Day means to them. (Saugus Advocate Photo by Mark E. Vogler)
By Mark E. Vogler
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n a unique departure from the town’s past patriotic celebrations, at least nine veterans will be sharing the grand marshal honors at the head of this year’s Memorial Day Parade. All of them are Purple Heart recipients – eight from the Vietnam War and one who served in World War ll and Korea. If any other Purple Heart recipients come to light before Saturday’s parade, they will be extended the same honor, according to Saugus Veterans Council Commander Steve Castinetti. “We have nine right now,” Castinetti said in an interview this week. “But if anybody else shows between now and Saturday, even better. They will all be welcome,” Castinetti said of the largest collection of living war heroes to be publicly recognized at the annual parade. Sponsored by the Saugus Veterans Council, the parade kicks off at 9:00 a.m. tomorrow from
Jackson Street to Lincoln Avenue. Traditionally, one grand marshal has been selected to lead a procession of about 500 participants from Cliftondale Square to Saugus Center. The parade route will wind from Lincoln Avenue to Central Street to Winter Street, and back to Central Street, where
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