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Graves said, with .75 million gallons daily required for Lenox and 1.41 million gallons daily re- gg quired to meet Lee’s projected p needs. jjNeed more lakesDavid Lenart of Tighe Bond said that if the Washington Mountain project were used as a water supply for the two towns, both the proposed Octo- ; ber Mountain Lake and the pro- C posed School House Lake would be required to meet the towns1 projected water needs.The dam for October Moun-tain Lake had already been con-strueted before Secretary of Ert- jj vironmental Affairs Evelyn F. n Murphy halted work on the project last December and or- ^dered the Soil Conservation Ser- . vice to prepare a more thorough ^ environmental impact state-mere hGraves also revealed that the fi town of Lee is testing ti groundwater in an area of the s; town' bordering Becket near $ Greenwater Pond for an al- hi ternative water source.Lenart declined to comment 01 on the testing, saying that he w would make a report to the Lee slt; Selectmen Monday. ftLee Road Commissioner J. ^ Peter Scolforo said that the De- % partment of Public Works voted ’ n Nov. 21 to drill five to 10 test wells in the area of Lee near Greenwater Pond and tests of the well-water will be included as a possible alternative water source in the Washington Mountain project impact statement.“We’re just investigating a potential water source,” Scoi- t foro said, “to weigh its ^ cost/benefit ratios to those of n Washington Mountain Brook.11 a
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The Berkshire Eagle
Pittsfield, Massachusetts, US
Thu, Dec 01, 1977
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