Last night DCAM conducted another in its string of Public Involvement Process (PIP) meetings on the clean up of the Medfield State Hospital property (this one over 2 hours), but
- with a new tone seeking a collaborative solution, and
- with a new team.
The reason for the meeting was a report on the finished work at the clay containment area, but the real news was both the new tone and the new DCAM environmental team. Four new consultants were introduced, who will now join Weston & Sampson.
Additionally, as reported after the Friday meeting Mike, Kris and I had with DCAM last week, they are reaching out to schedule stakeholder meetings with various groups. My suggestion to DCAM a week ago to hold working meetings of the LSP’s seems to have morphed into what was announced last night as a 1/12/12 technical meeting to discuss the science at 7:30 PM at the Medfield Town House.
There will apparently be a fresh set of eyes reviewing the clean up. Let’s hope that the town’s suggested clean up of the C&D area now gets a more favorable consideration by DCAM. The costs I was quoted when we met a week ago make their current plan and our requested plan seem to cost the same when permanent monitoring is added in – they quoted $5.5m to do our materials removal versus $1.6m for their cap and cover, but when one adds in $2.6m cost for the monitoring for the first 30 years, their cap and cover gets to a $4.2m cost, and I am guessing that the remaining monitoring from 30 year out to forever would have a present cost of the other $1m that would make both approachs cost the same. DCAM will hopefully release the full details of those numbers as they launch their new period of collaboration.
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