Joe Curtin, pro-development hack and Vice Chair of the Sterling Zoning Board of Appeals a/k/a The Developers’ Doormat, engineered 2021 Sterling Annual Town Meeting Warrant Article 46, submitted by the Planning Board dopes and recommended by the Select Board dopes– https://www.sterling-ma.gov/sites/g/files/vyhlif1266/f/uploads/2021_atm_final_warrant_june_7_2021_003_0.pdf It passed, thereby reducing in size the Wekepeke Aquifer Wellhead Protection Zone in Sterling. Joe Curtin’s position was that since the wellhead(s) in question, just over the line in Leominster, belong to the City of Leominster, Sterling should not burden itself by having such a heretofore expansive wellhead protection zone–approved previously by Sterling voters–in Sterling, thereby paving the way for more industrial development over the Wekepeke Aquifer in areas zoned Light Industrial.
I warned about his move in multiple Blog posts before the 2021 Annual Town Meeting, and spoke against it during the 2021 Annual Town Meeting, to no avail.
NOW, the Sterling D.P.W. wants to sink a Town Well off Crowley Road in the very same Wekepeke Aquifer, and has sought Mass. DEP approval to do so. Open the Sterling D.P.W. Board 11 January 2002 Agenda, and scroll down– https://www.sterling-ma.gov/department-of-public-works/events/111011
WAY TO GO, JOE!!! I’ll be waiting for your 2022 Sterling Annual Town Meeting Warrant Article restoring the Wekepeke Aquifer Wellhead Protection Zone to its 2020 boundaries.
SIDEBAR: During the 2021 Annual Town Meeting Marion Larson, Sterling Land Trust president, spoke in favor of Article 46. Obviously she’s brilliant too.
J.G.
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