John Harney of the legislation sub-committee of the State Hospital Advisory Committee reported at the last SHAC meeting last Thursday, that Senator Timilty had said that the town’s pending water tower and well fields legislation (to acquire about 5 acres on which to site a new water tower at the former Medfield State Hospital and the well fields), has been delayed because the state decided to surveyed all state departments to make sure that none of them wanted those lands.
Mr. Harney reported that Sen. Timilty expected the legislation to be enacted in about two weeks. Originally that legislation had been expected to be passed by last Thursday.
The legislation would transfer to the Town of Medfield about 5 acres of land surrounding the present water tower, along with access to Hospital Road, and the almost 20 acres of land comprising the former tubular well fields that are accessed off Colonial Road and that lie between Colonial and the Norfolk Hunt Club lands along North Street. The plan is for the town to get the lands at no cost, as one of the concessions negotiated as part of the successfully mediated clean up of the Medfield State Hospital site, due to the risk to the town’s well 6 by the C&D dump next to the river below ground water levels and the VOC plume from the former laundry building at the MSH site.
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