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4 South THE BOSTON SUNDAY GLOBE JANUARY 3, 1993 still in dispute with Kingston over Pine Brook Brockton WATER Continued from Page SOUTH 1 through May whenever the Silver Lake water level dropped more than 8 feet below normal. Brockton would have to ensure that at least 1 million gallons of water a day continued to flow into Kingston's Jones River. -TPEMBROKE Bog fAJ tP east wxwiw r' -A FZ--? 1 HAUMXr ONCSTOl station JJ jC ARVOT pivmouI I IS X. DUXBlRY 1 Halifax -i5 nsX(ki y'yho, (J Kingston fi 4- Brockton sees the diversion as a short-term supplement to its dwindling water reserves, a stopgap measure to help the city through droughts until it can muster regional support for a long-term solution to its water shortage, such as a massive diversion from the Taunton River. CLEARANCE TO 70 special purchases from mfrs.

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95N Knit 57 to Downtown Newburyport 8 MARKET SQUARE NEWBURYPORT, proaram Is a SMOKERS about cooperation because he wants other communities to give their water to Brockton, that Brockton's longstanding reputation as "the piranha of Plymouth County" remains accurate. They assert that the Pine Brook diversion would reduce the flow of Kingston's Jones River to dangerously low levels, threatening the river's brook trout, creating problems for downstream cranberry growers, severely damaging the river's delicate ecosystem. They complain that Kingston would get nothing in return. "People around here are sophisticated enough to see the value of a city, but we're not so foolish to say that we need to support a city at all costs, just because it's a city," duBois said. "Brockton needs to stop approaching cooperation in a Scrooge-type way and start doing something to help others." The state Department of Fisheries and Wildlife has echoed many of Kingston's environmental concerns about an insufficient river flow.

"You can't subject these plants and animals to constant drought conditions," said Russ Cohen, rivers advocate for the state agency. "They have evolved to survive in a water-rich environment. It would be intolerable to take that away from them." Anne McCormack, Brockton water resource officer, insisted that the city has no intention of damaging the natural resources of surrounding communities. "We're not out to destroy the environment," McCormack said. "Well comply with any restrictions they put on us.

This isn't Brockton running roughshod over our neighbors. This is a kinder, gentler administration." After his election in November 1991, Farwell portrayed himself as a cooperative, bridge-building mayor who would reach out to the City Council and other city officials who frequently fought with his predecessor. Farwell also promised to cooperate with surrounding towns, to shed Brockton's water-hog image. "In the past, Brockton has approached problems in a manner that was less than conciliatory, but I've worked hard to convince our neighbors that I'm serious about changing that," Farwell said. "My fear is that the animosity of the past will taint our future relationships.

I think we all need to start anew with a fresh, cooperative vision." In recent weeks, Farwell has found himself fighting with the City Council about the Brockton 21st Century Corp. and the mayoral travel budget. As the holiday season approached, he got into a public battle with Brockton's fire chief about an alleged safety hazard posed by Far-well's City Hall Christmas tree. And iij Kingston, at least, Far- GIVE YOURSELF AND YOUR FAMILY A SPECIAL GIFT THIS YEAR hospital-based smokinq cessation- of smokers to put down cigarettes gradually, painlessly and for good! Best of all, if you are unable to quit following the STOP guidelines, your tuition will be refunded. The STOP program begins with a free Informational session: Thursday, Jan.

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STOP is a program of the Tobacco Control Resource Center. Kingston officials view the Pine Brook plan as a flat-out raid, and an environmentally disastrous one at that. "A million gallons is nothing," said Pine duBois, chairman of Kingston's Conservation Commission. "That kind of flow wouldn't sustain any kind of wildlife. Brockton is always talking about cooperation.

I think their sense of cooperation is a lot different from everyone else's." Mayor Winthrop H. Farwell Jr. of Brockton has argued that surrounding towns would help themselves by helping Brockton. With a 1986 moratorium on new water connections in Brockton still in effect, the city needs to find reliable new sources of water to attract development. Farwell contends that towns such as Kingston would benefit from an economic revival in Brockton, the only city in Plymouth County.

And while Farwell acknowledges that Brockton has been uncooperative in the past, he insists that the city has turned over a new leaf. Kingston officials are unimpressed by Farwell's argument. They contend that Farwell talks INDEPENDENT CONTRACTORS FOR EARLY MORNING DELIVERY Part Time Independent Contractors needed for early AM newspaper delivery. 2 to 3 early morning hours each day. Done by 7AM.

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Cravenhq accuses Brockton of secretly raising a dam at Forge Pond, effectively diverting water from the Jones River. DuBois complains that Brockton has drawn too heavily from Silver Lake and done little to protect the rej source, located where Kingston; Pembroke, Halifax and Plymptdn join, indirectly detracting from" the quality of Kingston's water "I view the mayor's statements about cooperation with a rather jaundiced eye," said Clive Beasley, chairman of Kingston's Board Se-' lectmen. "We've heard all this, before. Brockton wants cooperation that helps Brockton." 7 Farwell knows that his desper; ately parched city cannot solve water problems without assistance, from its neighbors. But if Kingston's hostile reaction to the Pine Brook plan is a precursor of local communities' eventual response to the Taunton River project, Brockton wilTface an uphill battle in its efforts toward economic revitalization.

"I wish I could make people see that working together is a necessity for all of us," Farwell said. "As we race toward the year 2000, it's; the only way this region can Globe staff chart from West Quincy residents 'who were against the addition of a breakdown lane, so the project's postponement saved Sheets a major headache. Still, Sheets said he could understand the frustratinn of town nffim'oL uli.WtllO whose expectations had been shattered. "Old Colony is going to happen, and if the state feels it needs to shift more money there to get it done, so be it" Sheets said. "But if there weren't benefits accruing to Quincy, I'd be complaining, too.

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QlffltcyBfilntree Reconstruction of Willard St. $1,200,000,, Randoba Signalization at Crawford Square $800,000 1" four other locations Resurfacing of Rte. 28 $400,000 Westwood Reconstruction, Green Lodge Bridge $1,120,000 Weymouth Reconstruction of bridge $600,000 on Columbian Road Hardwood, Formica, Tile Top, Glass CHOOSE YOUR SIZE! Round, Rectangle, Oval, Add Leaves, Customize CHOOSE YOUR FINISH! Dozens of Stains, Paints, Unfinished, Use Your Own, Customize CHOOSE YOUR ACCESSORIES! Removed from TIP at request of Board of Selectmen. Added to TIP for FY 1994 SOURCE: Massachusetts Highway Department and local officials Beaktast Bars, Buffets, Hutches, Center IK PROJECTS Continued from Page SOUTH 1 A $4.5 million resurfacing of Interstate 95 between Norwood and Canton has been postponed until 1994. The other projects removed from the plan have been postponed indefinitely.

Several local officials expressed dismay that the state had scuttled plans for projects in their towns. Randolph's public works director, Peter Boghossian, said he feared that the state's decision to postpone $800,000 worth of traffic improvements in his town would result in serious accidents. "Over at Crawford Square, we've got an absolute safety hazard," Boghossian said. "It's like a maze trying to get through there. We need to get that project done as quickly as possible, and now we don't have the money to do it" The restoration of three lines once operated by the defunct Old Colony Railroad is intended to bring commuter rail service to much of the south suburbs, at a cost now estimated at $480 million.

The additional $80 million $10 million a year for the next three years, $50 million for 1996 and 1997 will increase federal participation in the project's financing from 63 percent to 80 percent The majority of the local opposition to the recent traffic plan amendments has focused not on the additional funding for the rail project but on the process by which it was approved. "Communities aren't happy with these late changes, and there's no reason why they should be," said Dan Fortier, chief transportation planner for the Metropolitan Area Planning Council They were counting on funding for these projects, and now it's been taken away. This should have been addressed in Octo- i ber, when the original TIP was de- I veloped." Steffens said the budget dele-i tions were the result of the Intenno-dal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act of 1991, which allowed state governments to shift federal money between highway projects and mass transit but cracked down on their ability to pour federal money into unbudgeted projects. "In the past when we had a project we wanted to do, we'd just add it to the list" Steffens said. "After ISTE, we can't do that anymore.

But if some of these projects get ready to go ahead of schedule and others slip behind, we can always change the list again." But officials such as Dedham executive secretary Bob Hanson said that frequent revisions would add instability to the funding process. "Once you start second-guessing yourself and changing your plans all the time, you get into a morass where whoever screams the loudest gets their project done," he said. For Mayor James A. Sheets of Quincy, the amendments to the Traffic Improvement Plan could not have been more convenient Initially an opponent of the Old Colony project Sheets now considers the railroad crucial to the revitalization of his city's economy. And the state's $1.2 million plan to reconstruct Willard Street had drawn fierce opposition uuujr lines ui see ineir projects nut on the shelf." The Old Colony project has already begun, with bridge work under way in Dorchester and Quincy.

Meanwhile, for towns such as Westwood, Dedham, Randolph and Milton, the waiting game continues. -It's not nice our bridge is gomfr to fan down any day," said Milton executive secretary John Cronin. it's got to be fixed, and we can't afford to do it ourselves. We just hare to make sure it stays on the state's hst of priorities." 4 From dining to dance, Calendar magazine brings you extensive listings of fun things to do and see. Look for it every Thursday in The Globe.

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