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Select Board endorses Mass Audubon memorandum restricting herbicide use near wellhead
Summary
The Select Board voted to endorse a memorandum of agreement with Mass Audubon that prohibits chemical herbicide use on town property and restricts herbicide application within wellhead protection zones, allowing only cut‑stem treatments in interim zones on Audubon property.
The Town of Hampden Select Board voted May 19 to endorse a memorandum of agreement with Mass Audubon that prohibits chemical herbicide application on town property, bars herbicide use within Zone 1 wellhead protection areas, and allows only targeted cut‑stem herbicide treatments in the interim wellhead protection area on Audubon land.
Mass Audubon representative Tom (last name not provided) outlined the organization’s restoration plan for a pine‑oak woodland and said negotiations over the memorandum focused on a town request for a 500‑foot offset for herbicide use from the town well. “We’re fine with staying more than 200 feet away…but going out to 500 feet covers that entire…
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