View or download the September–October 2018 issue as a color PDF here, or read single articles below.

 

Articles in this issue:

Developing a Conservation Master Plan for Rock Meadow

by Jeffrey North

“Rock Meadow is a beautiful and diverse landscape with differing microclimates, terrains, and experiences throughout the site. This diversity provides both design challenges and opportunities.”  —Excerpt from Rock Meadow, A Conservation Master Plan

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The Future of The McLean Barn

by Robert Kennedy

As most in Belmont are aware, there is a barn located adjacent to Rock Meadow, sitting back from Mill Street just south of the Rock Meadow parking lot. It is brick, substantially built, and was once part of a farm that supported McLean Hospital. Although now boarded up, it is in reasonably good repair. Belmont Town Meeting recently approved monies from Community Preservation Act funds for minor repairs to help prevent deterioration. Read more.

 

Sewer Repairs In Progress to Clean Up Wellington Brook and Winn’s Brook

by Anne-Marie Lambert

A home in Belmont with four occupants sends about 210 gallons a day of wastewater into the town sewer system.¹ When an underground sanitary sewer pipe collapses in a neighborhood where the storm drain is located below the sewer in the same underground trench, the sewage leaks into the storm drain and then into our rivers and ponds. This happened on Homer Road, a small street off Hastings Road. The sewer pipe and storm drain serve three homes upstream of a recently detected collapse. Read more.

 

Two Years of Homer House Restoration Successes

by Wendy Murphy

The Belmont Woman’s Club has been working on many projects at the beautiful William Flagg Homer House since 2016, when the club won a Community Preservation Act grant to restore the third-floor cupola. Read more.

 

BCF Survey Response

In the last issue of the Belmont Citizens Forum Newsletter, we asked you to take our reader survey and tell us how we’ve been doing. Thank you to all who participated. We enjoyed your enthusiastic feedback and were inspired by your thoughtful suggestions. Read more. Or click to take online survey.

 

Alewife Poetry Stroll

Poet Elizabeth Quinlan reads by Little River during the August 18 Alewife Poetry Stroll. Read more.

 

Environmental Events, Sept-Oct 2018

Belmont Stormwater Working Group and more. Read more.