The funding, totaling, $130,981, will assist Dartmouth and Fairhaven through the Commonwealth’s Gap II Energy Efficiency Water/Wastewater Grant Program.
Ten Massachusetts communities, including New Bedford and Wareham, are sharing nearly $400,000 in state grants to improve drinking water or improve wastewater treatment facilities.
State Treasurer Deb Goldberg, Chair of the Massachusetts Clean Water Trust, announced today more than $7.6 million in loan principal forgiveness for 24 projects in 18 communities statewide, including three SouthCoast communities.
The City's Department of Public Infrastructure is retiring. Ron Labelle told his staff Thursday he will be stepping down from his position at the end of this fiscal year, June 30.
Labelle tells WBSM News he felt it was an appropriate time to announce his retirement...
Environmental officials say an estimated 600,000 gallons of non-disinfected wastewater was discharged from a Fall River treatment facility into Mount Hope Bay.