The City’s Public Safety Departments Racked Up $200,000 in Overtime, Equipment and Clean-up Costs, Which Is Eligible for FEMA Reimbursements. NORTHAMPTON – State officials responsible for checking the safety of the city’s bridges and dams in the wake of Hurricane Irene have reported no problems, Northampton Media has learned. Edward Huntley, director of the city’s [...]

Flooded pumps shut down secondary treatment of municipal sewage; no telling how long it will take to drain the plant and repair the machinery. By MARY SERREZE WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS — Public works officials in Greenfield are scrambling to assess and repair the city’s battered wastewater treatment plant, which has been discharging raw sewage into the Deerfield [...]

With the river forecast to start dropping soon, threats to waterside homes will wane and access to the Meadows section of the city will start opening up. By DAVID REID NORTHAMPTON , Aug. 29, 2011 – The Connecticut River is expected to peak at about 117 feet above sea level by tomorrow afternoon or Wednesday [...]

The Board of Public Works is considering setting aside $1 million a year in water and sewer enterprise funds to tackle infrastrucure repairs and upgrades that have been ignored over the years. NORTHAMPTON – Water and sewer rates for the next fiscal year could rise from 7 to 12 percent – or even more – [...]

NORTHAMPTON – Flooding in the city’s lowest lying areas forced the closing Monday morning of a few streets in the Meadows and along the Three County Fairgrounds, and required the pumping of the Barrett Street sewer line, officials said. Almost 3.2 inches of rain fell on the city Sunday through 5 a.m. Monday, and on [...]

Former city councilor Maria Tymoczko’s appeal to the state DEP over stormwater problems at the Three County Fairgrounds brings a temporary halt to construction plans.   NORTHAMPTON – It only took a week for visions of a revitalized and redesigned Three County Fairgrounds here to hit a high water mark – and then to quickly drain away. [...]

The proposed 1.5-mile bike path would skirt the railroad tracks, I-91 and the Connecticut River, right past a proposed rowing center and soccer field planned at the Lane Construction site. NORTHAMPTON – The city’s long-term plan to build a new bike path from Damon Road to Hatfield got a boost this week with news that [...]

NORTHAMPTON – The vision encompasses a new bicycle trail to Hatfield, a rowing center and municipal boat launch, and a new public park for recreation along the Connecticut River north of Damon Road between the railroad and the river. That dream, which would involve a private-public partnership between a rowing club and the city, is [...]

Hamp Crew will be sending its Men’s Varsity Eight boat to the 2010 US Rowing Youth National Championships after a superb showing at the Northeast District Championships on the Merrimack River in Lowell last weekend, qualifying with a time of 6:29.475 in the 2000-meter event with a third-place finish in the final heat. The District [...]

The Board of Public Works (BPW) on March 23rd appropriated $55,800 to pay a Cambridge-based science and engineering firm for technical support toward the city’s efforts to remove nitrogen from its wastewater treatment plant (WWTP) on Hockanum Road. SEA Consultants promised to look for the causes of “lack of nitrification, poor settling, and extensive slime [...]