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Contractor asked to use Lowell park as long‑term staging yard for multi‑million sewer project; board delays decision
Summary
Albanese D & S asked to use Hobby/Hubby Park for 2–2.5 years as a central staging yard for a roughly $44 million drainage/wastewater contract. Board members raised concerns about impacts to cricket and other park users, liability and alternative sites and voted to postpone action until staff and affected stakeholders can meet.
Andreas Ciano, a representative of contractor Albanese D & S, asked the Lowell City Parks Board for permission to use Hobby/Hubby Park as a single staging area for a multi‑street drainage/wastewater contract that would install large box culverts and deep pipe runs. Ciano described the work as involving 96‑inch and 72‑inch box culverts and excavations up to 25 feet deep and said concentrating materials and equipment at one site would reduce truck movements through neighborhoods.
"By allowing us to use Hobby Park, we would not need any of the other…
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