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Residents press Methuen council to fund Echo Lane sewer; mayor carves $450,000 into CIP
Summary
Residents asked the Methuen City Council to add the Echo Lane Sewer Connection project to the capital improvement plan; staff said the mayor amended the CIP to move $450,000 from road improvements to fund the project without increasing total bonding.
Dozens of residents and several written statements urged the Methuen City Council to prioritize a sewer connection for Echo Lane, citing failing septic systems, undersized leach-field stone and possible contamination of a nearby aquifer.
The council heard a neighborhood speaker, Tom Geroso of 9 Echo Lane, and read letters from residents (Norman Barubi, Michael Hamill and others) describing homes built in the mid-1980s whose septic systems are now failing and which residents say would cost…
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