With an agreement between the town and Wildlands Trust of Southeastern Massachusetts in place, a retaining wall at the new school construction site wont be needed.

A temporary easement provides access to the site of the new middle and high school. Selectmen approved a license agreement Monday night that allows the town to work on a specific area of Wildlands Trust property in order to build the school and reslope a portion of the Wildlands Trust property.

Selectman Shawn Dahlen said the plan to cut down some trees, reslope part of the property and do some landscaping is the preferred alternative to building a retaining wall.

It will be a preferable long-term solution, he said.

According to School Building Committee Chairman Elizabeth Lewis, the site contractor has installed erosion control in the form of hay bales, silt fencing and construction fencing around the work areas.Work is underway to install temporary parking at the high school site along the front and west side of the property. Tree cutting is complete and gravel will be placed in these areas.

Behind Alden elementary, a portion of the fields area has been cleared and graveled to provide an area for the contractor trailers and parking, and an access road has been installed from Alden Street near the tennis courts to the contractors staging area. The existing paved roads behind the middle school have been reclaimed (removed and pulverized) for the contractor access roads.

Shortly, the storage shed and concessions buildings behind the middle school will be demolished. Work on the building pad will begin this week.The soil below the building foundations has to be removed and recompacted, which will take place over the course of the next month.

The official groundbreaking ceremony for the co-located middle and high school was held in June. The school is expected to be completed in two years and be ready for its first students in the fall of 2014.

The towns share of the $128 million model school building project is $77 million, with the Massachusetts School Building Authority contributing more than $51 million, or approximately 44 percent, of the cost.

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July 26, 2012 at 7:10 pm by Mr HomeBuilder
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