Patch Facts

5 Things: Student Stress, Superfund Site Cleanup

A quick look at what you need to see, do and know on May 6 in Concord.

1. Identifying the Gifts of Our Students: Building Resiliency and Increasing Success While Reducing Stress, Anxiety and Depression: At 7 p.m. tonight at Concord-Carlisle High, the Center for Parents and Teachers (CPT) and facilitator Christine Duvivier will present a forum on how to identifying the gifts of students can prevent anxiety and depression and increase resilience in them. 2. Today in Public Meetings: According to the town website, public meetings posted for today include the Alcott School Advisory Council at 5:15 p.m., the Thoreau School Advisory Council at 6:30 p.m. and the Board of Selectmen at 7 p.m. 3. Reminder: Contractors working on the Starmet/Nuclear Metals site cleanup will begin shipping waste materials from 2229 Main …

• Photos (1)

Starmet/NMI: Contractors to Start Shipping Waste Off-Site Next Week

Up to six trucks could be leaving the site per day as cleanup efforts continue at the superfund site in West Concord.

Trucks loaded with waste materials will start rolling away from the Starmet/Nuclear Metals superfund site in West Concord next week, another step forward on the long road toward remediation. Beginning next week, as many as six trucks could begin leaving the site daily, according to the latest update from Bruce Thompson, project coordinator for de maximus inc. Loaded trucks leaving the site on weekdays will avoid rush hours and school bus hours, and receive safety and radiological contamination inspections before leaving the gate. Their route will proceed east on Rt. 62, to Rt. 2 west and then on to 495, according to Thompson’s memo, which said the removal of building contents will continue through the end of 2013. The off-site disposal of…

• Photos (1)

More Former Nuclear Metals Employees Eligible for Medical Benefits, Compensation

A new class employees who worked at the West Concord superfund site added to Special Exposure Cohort of the Energy Employees Occupational Illness Compensation Program Act.

A new group former employees of Nuclear Metals Inc. is now eligible for compensation and medical benefits under an act that covers workers who became ill as a result of working in the nuclear weapons industry. The U.S. Department of Labor is notifying all former employees of Nuclear Metals of a new class of employees recently added to the Special Exposure Cohort of the Energy Employees Occupational Illness Compensation Program Act, according to a department press release. The new cohort includes all automatic weapons employees who worked for Nuclear Metals or a subsequent owner of its West Concord facility from Oct. 29, 1958 through Dec. 31, 1979 for at least 250 workdays. Their designation under the SEC became effective on Jan. 6, meaning…

•  1 Comment
• Photos (1)

You Ask, Patch Answers

What’s Going on at the Starmet/Nuclear Metals Site?

Some outdoor site work will begin this week during normal business hours.

  Neighbors to the Starmet/NMI in West Concord could be hearing chainsaws and heavy equipment this week as the contractor tasked with demolishing the superfund site will begin some outdoor activities. That’s according to a notice posted to the town website, which explained the outdoor activities “will include clearing trees near the buildings and some minor earthwork to prepare staging areas for trucks and to install a truck scale.” Site work and demolition of the buildings 2229 Main St. comes more than a decade after the Starmet/NMI site was added to the Superfund National Priorities List in 2001. An agreement to remove the buildings came in 2011, after the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), U.S. Army, U.S. Department of Energy, …

• Photos (1)

Police Log: More Suspicious Activity Around Starmet Site

The following information was provided by the Concord Police Department. An arrest does not indicate a conviction.

Wednesday, Nov. 14 12:02 a.m. – Police responded to a call reporting a possible breaking-and-entering in progress at the Starmet/Nuclear Metals superfund site on Main Street in West Concord. There was a report of two men in the area, at lest one of whom fled on foot to toward the north side of the building and over a pile of pallets and then a fence. Police formed a perimeter and checked the area, but the incident report indicates nothing was found. 8:29 a.m. – An officer radioed in to report an apparent breaking-and-entering to the automatic car wash at Concord Gas sometime after 11 p.m. the previous evening. 8:41 a.m. – A Cambridge Turnpike resident called to report a sliver sedan was parked and blocking the sidewalk. The vehicle, which …

• Photos (1)

Police Log: Scoping Out Starmet and A Rollover Accident

The following information was provided by the Concord Police Department. An arrest does not indicate a conviction.

Tuesday, Nov. 13 1:11 a.m. – An officer reported checking on a vehicle parked in a driveway on Main Street with its door left open. He spoke with the owner, and determined the open door was due to apparent neglect. 2:04 a.m. – An officer radioed in to report checking on a subject walking on Lowell Road from Barretts Mill Road. He reported the man was walking home from a friend’s residence. 1:26 p.m. – Police investigated a reported motor vehicle accident in which a man reported a vehicle sideswiped his trash truck on Main Street. 2:38 p.m. – A Concord man reported losing his Bank of America card sometime the previous day. 3:24 p.m. – Police responded to a report that a green pickup ran a Stop sign on Lowell Road, before pasting the caller’…

• Photos (1)