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File #: 210739    Version: 1
Type: Order Status: Approved
File created: 10/20/2020 In control: City Council
On agenda: 10/22/2020 Final action: 10/28/2021
Enactment date: 10/22/2020 Enactment #: 210739
Title: That the Director of Engineering and the Director of Infrastructure and Asset Management urge Eversource to fix gas leaks at 721 Somerville Avenue and nearby, as identified by HEET, and appear with Eversource staff at the next meeting of the Council’s Committee on Public Utilities and Public Works to discuss this matter.
Sponsors: Mark Niedergang, Ben Ewen-Campen, Kristen Strezo

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That the Director of Engineering and the Director of Infrastructure and Asset Management urge Eversource to fix gas leaks at 721 Somerville Avenue and nearby, as identified by HEET, and appear with Eversource staff at the next meeting of the Councils Committee on Public Utilities and Public Works to discuss this matter.

 

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Official Text

That the Director of Engineering and the Director of Infrastructure and Asset Management advocate forcefully with Eversource to fix the known gas leak at 721 Somerville Avenue and additional nearby gas leaks identified by HEET that are spewing methane into the street and killing trees in that area and report to this Council on this matter; and that these City officials or their designees appear at and request that their Eversource counterparts appear at the next meeting of the Council’s Committee on Public Utilities and Public Works to discuss this matter.