PROHIBIT LANDFILL AND RECYCLING PLANT TOWN OF AGAWAM
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36 MAIN STREET AGAWAM, MASSACHUSETTS 01001
Tel. 413-786-0400
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March 21 , 1984
Dear Sir :
The Agawam Town Council during their regular council meeting
on March 19 , 1984 unanimously approved the following resolution :
Resolution- Be it resolved that this Council in order to prevent
a situation that would be detrimental to the health, well-being
and quality of life of a large segment of our community, and to
further foster a climate that would be conducive to the expansion
of business and industry in the Town of Agawam, does hereby express
its support of the existing federal , state and local environmental
and land use controls that would effectively prohibit the use of
the Meadow Street-Westfield River site known as the Agawam Meadows
1 for the location of a landfill and/or recycling plant of any nature .
This resolution is further intented to republish , support and
enhance the .July 15 , 1983 statement of the Council ' s Landfill
Study Committee and the ,July 6 , 1983 opinion of the Commonwealth
of Mass . Department of Environmental Quality Engineering that the
Agawam Meadows site would not be suitable to host a landfill or a
recycling plant .
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Sincerely ,
Ursula Retzler
Clerk of the Council
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TOWN OF AGAWAM
36 Main Street
Agawam, Mass. 01001
TOM COUNCIL
Frank Schaffer, Vice President
1 Farm Credit Bank
67 Hunt Street
Agawam, MA 01001
'TOWN OF AGAWAM
36 Main Street
�gawam, Mass. 01001
TOWN COUNCIL
Howell Hughes , President
Farm Credit Bank
67 Hunt Street
Agawam, MA 01001
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tTOWN OF AGAWAM
36 Main Street
Agawam, Mass. 01001
TOWN COUNCIL
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Edward Gelsphorpe, President
and Chief Exec . Officer
233 Main Street
Agawam, MA 01001
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Agawam, e -
TOWN COUNCIL
C . William Crain , President
Buxton, Inc.
265 Main Street
Agawam, MA 01001
TOWN COUNCIL
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Harold Grinspoon
Managing General Partner
Regency Park Apartments
Regency Park Drive
Agawam, MA 01001
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TOWN OF AGAWAM
%r 36 Main Street
wam, Mass. 01001
TOW r101UNCIL
Theodore Progulske, Chairman
' Board of Appeals
Agawam, Mass- 01001
To. COUNCIL
Charles Calabrese, Chairman
Planning Board
Henry Kozloski, Chairman
Conservation Commission
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Farm Credit Banks of Springfield
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Federal Land Bank,Federal Intermediate Credit Bank,Bank for Cooperatives ` r
Post Office Box 141
Springfield, Massachusetts 01102
Telephone (413)786-7600
Howell Hughes,President
' March 23, 1984
Agawam Town Council
36 Main Street
Agawam, MA 01001
Gentlemen:
I received a letter dated March 21st, from Ursula Retzler, Clerk of your
' Council, in which she transmitted the resolution passed by the Council on
March 19th.
1 We want to express our appreciation for your action. We intend to proceed
with our project and thereby assure both the town and our bank a long time
future relationship. We greatly appreciate the cooperation which we have
received from all your representatives. We assure you of our intent to
continue our organizational conduct as a good corporate citizen.
Sin ely,
' President
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