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Pollard site borings, geothermal and design tradeoffs highlighted as key unknowns for Needham school project
Summary
Committee heard that geotechnical borings are scheduled over the winter break, that soil and site constraints will affect foundation and geothermal design (potentially 80–90 wells), and that proximity to the railroad (options 5D vs 5E) and 3‑ vs 4‑story massing are central design tradeoffs.
Committee members probed subsurface unknowns at the Pollard site and discussed design tradeoffs that will affect cost and schedule.
Speaker 1 said the town has a proposal for test borings and expects on‑site work over the winter break to gather soil and groundwater information. To date, only a phase‑2 environmental around a removed buried oil tank has been done; that test found no contamination in the sampled soils. Speaker 1 said…
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