PUBLIC HEARING ON NESTLE WATER REQUEST
Tuesday July 31 @ 1pm
U S Fish & Wildlife Service Regional Office
300 Westgate Drive, off Rt 9 at Rt 116 & Staples, Hadley
Nestle is seeking permission to
sink a test well on the Montague Plains (public land) for a potential water
bottling plant. See http://www.wmass.indymedia.org/?q=node/72. Nestle wants
permission to enter the Montague Plains Wildlife Management Area and perform
a site investigation. This investigation would culminate in a long term
pumping test well to "stress the aquifer" and see how it reacts in order to
determine its long term sustainable yield. Following the hearing, area
activists will caucus.
Info: Don Ogden, mailto:valeoftheoaks@hotmail.com
or Jean Grossholtz, mailto:jgrossho@mtholyoke.edu.
