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Select Board weighs $100,000 design appropriation for former Atwood water-tank contamination; funding source disputed

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The board discussed a $100,000 article to fund engineering design and bidding for remediation at the former Atwood water-tank site. The Affordable Housing Trust rescinded a previously offered $200,000 toward remediation, and members debated whether to fund the design from free cash or water reserves.

The Select Board on Sept. 16 discussed a proposed article asking town meeting to appropriate $100,000 from free cash to fund engineering design and bidding for remediation at the former Atwood water-tank site. The appropriation would produce a construction bid package and clarify full remediation costs; it does not itself pay for full cleanup. Doug Manns, chair of the Affordable Housing Trust, told the…

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