The complete May/June 2020 Belmont Citizens Forum Newsletter is available as a PDF. Read individual articles below.
Lone Tree Hill Volunteer Day Postponed The volunteer day will be held in the fall, but we’d like to thank our sponsors now. Read more.
First mention of the Spanish Influenza in the Belmont Patriot, September 14, 1918.
Belmont’s Last Pandemic: the 1918 Flu The story of how Belmont responded is replete with both striking similarities to the 2020 coronavirus response and sharp differences. A weekly record of the influenza pandemic as it swept through Belmont in the fall of 1918 can be found in the pages of the Belmont Patriot. Read more.
Cleaning Belmont’s Water Means More Work There is good news and bad news in Belmont’s January 31 Report on Compliance to the EPA. The town decided to go ahead and reline or replace many sewer laterals-but there was no significant mitigation work during the fall construction season. Read more.
The cleaned and stabilized McLean barn, left side. Photo courtesy of Spencer, Sullivan & Voigt.
How the Community Preservation Act Works There are changes in store for future planning and town meeting votes. Read more.
It’s Officially Census Day Find out why and how to take the census, and how many Belmont residents are responding. Read more.
Belmont Tackles Climate Vulnerability Planning Belmont is now in the first phase of the Municipal Vulnerability Preparedness Program (MVP), a tool Massachusetts created in 2017 to enable local governments to prepare for the weather-related impacts of climate change. Read more, and take Belmont’s municipal vulnerability survey.
Tree Loss Harms Urban Environments From 2003 to 2008, Boston’s urban tree cover declined from 29% to 28%. The loss of tree cover is accompanied by the loss of the trees’ environmental, economic, and societal benefits. Read more.
Common materials that cannot be recycled. Photo: Morris County, NJ
Changing Economics Alter Belmont’s Recycling. Municipal waste now has less paper and glass and more plastic packaging than a decade ago, making recycling more expensive — and evolving Chinese government policies have slashed the market for recyclables. Belmont’s recycling landscape has gotten a lot more complicated. Read more.
Belmont Roots features links to local historic and environmental videos guaranteed to be safe and available even when most events won’t run. Read more.
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