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Mount Wachusett Community College hearing continued after drainage, flood‑zone and fence concerns
Summary
A public hearing on a proposed 2,000‑square‑foot addition and expanded parking at 42 Linus Lane Avenue was continued to Oct. 14 after engineers and a nearby resident raised questions about subsurface drainage, flood‑zone mapping and a fence encroachment onto college property.
A public hearing on proposed parking, drainage and a 2,000‑square‑foot building addition at 42 Linus Lane Avenue, part of a project for the Mount Wachusett Community College Foundation, was continued to Oct. 14 after engineers and a nearby resident raised technical and property‑line concerns.
Project engineers, represented by Dominic Elaine of Hanigan Engineering, described plans for an expanded parking lot north of the site, a smaller parking area to the south and a building addition adjacent to an existing technical education center. Elaine said runoff from the new parking areas would be captured by two catch basins and routed to an underground storage system for peak‑rate mitigation before entering the municipal drainage network on Linus Lane Avenue.
City engineering staff questioned whether the proposed underground unit was a closed detention system and whether soils on the site would allow infiltration. “So it’s…
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