Tagged: Department of Environmental Protection

DEP Holds Waterways Hearing Regarding Weymouth Compressor Station

February 1st, 2024 | Department of Environmental Protection

The Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection held a Waterways Hearing on Wednesday to discuss a Chapter 91 Waterways permit that was granted to Enbridge for construction of a compressor station in Weymouth which a Superior Court Justice vacated and sent back to the department. DEP Attorney David Bragg told the presiding officer that the site […]

DEP Commissioner Tours Wastewater Treatment Plant In Hull

September 28th, 2023 | Department of Environmental Protection

When Hull sited its wastewater treatment plant in 1978, it chose a location between the uplands of Pemberton and Allerton. It’s a gravity-feed system. Today, it shares the low spot, within view of the harbor and the Atlantic, with a salt marsh. It floods. The town has spent more than a million dollars to lift […]

Duxbury Nukes Chair Welcomes DEP Decision On Holtec

July 26th, 2023 | Department of Environmental Protection

Mary “Pixie” Lampert, Co-Chair of the Duxbury Nuclear Advisory Committee, speaks with WATD’s Dan McCready about the recent decision by the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection denying a request by Holtec to release contaminated water into Cape Cod Bay.