Regional agency's analysis of the proposed Sudbury River mercury cleanup

By Megan McKee, Town Correspondent

The Metropolitan Area Planning Council hired a consultant to do an independent analysis of the federal government's proposed mitigation of long-time industrial mercury dumping into the Sudbury River, and recently sent its conclusions to the federal Environmental Protection Agency.

The agency received grant money from the MetroWest Community Health Care Foundation to do two things related to the river: conduct an outreach campaign to stop Spanish, English, and Portuguese-speaking fishermen from eating fish from the Sudbury River, and to do an analysis of the EPA's report on the cleanup options.

You can read the agency's analysis here:

EPA Comment Letter on Sudbury River Feasibility Study 8-25.pdf