Special Bd. of Aldermen — 10/26/15 Page 21
Alderman Lopez
| recognize the dilemma as presented, | just feel like we could have done more to explore the removal so that
people would feel better at least that there was a reason, just dropping a huge number down isn’t quite as
compelling. And there is the engineering study that is on the web site but there isn’t somebody who has the
same expertise as the gentleman who is ready to do the encapsulation here to also say “well this is what you
would do, this is how we prevent spills, this is our insurance plan, this is the one time the truck has accidentally
backed into the river and polluted it”. You know, we didn’t have that level of expertise.
Mr. Millan-Ramos May | interject? | just to make very, very clear our estimate are very, very conservative and
they take a lot of contingencies into it and they are fully detailed both in the EC/CA and in the technical memo
that | mentioned. You are more than welcome to review them, submit it to any other contractor you may want
to double-check it, we are not opposed to that. And any questions you may have about it, we are more than
willing to explain. But again, the full excavation of everything was seriously considered, not only in this EC/CA
amendment, in the old EC/CA that was done way back in 2000. So | have to tell you that my understanding is
that we have fully and very thoroughly assessed that option.
Alderman Lopez
| appreciate your position but | also recognize that in your presentations you have steered away from that even
when | have explicitly requested that.
Mr. Millan-Ramos The EC/CA itself is an analysis of all those options and a selection of the best one, not only
in terms of cost but as of effectiveness and implement ability. So the whole process is detailed in there and
why we selected that one. It was basically the thrust of the presentation was to show the preferred alternative
and again if you need any more information, we are than willing to provide it. But we feel that everything has
been laid out in detail.
Alderman Lopez
| agree that there were videos, there were detailed presentations, all of these pictures and an expert in the
room for that approach.
President McCarthy
I'd actually like to, before it gets too late, |’ll allow some time for the public to speak. So if anybody would like
to address the committee, please come forward to the microphone and give your name and address and
comments or questions.
PUBLIC COMMENT
Elisabeth Caswell, 48 Fairmount Street, Nashua, NH. In talking at the meeting you weren’t there with the
Mayor, but a lot of us were quite taken with the idea of continuing with the secant wall and seeking full removal
of the Fimbel Door Lagoon so that we don’t have the risk of that 6 foot wall, especially after the meeting that
we had where Darrin had mentioned that they didn’t actually have a design quite yet, they were working on it.
The pictures that were provided showed seams and steel beams that are going to leak. So | just wanted to put
on public record that a lot of the neighborhood supports the secant wall as long as we can prevent it from
building up, if it stays at river level and that 6 foot wall is not added on top of that, we would be completely
behind you.
Bill Eaton Good evening my name is Bill Eaton and | live in Westford, Massachusetts but | have been in the
waste disposal business since about 1987. | work for a company in Canada and we specialize in dioxin
