Household Hazardous Waste Day - This Saturday

Just a reminder, the Household Hazardous Waste Day is this coming Saturday from 9AM until 1PM at the DCR parking lot along the George Washington Boulevard by the roller rink.

If you live in town and are planning on attending this event, all you will need to bring with you is your drivers license showing that you are a Hull resident. Only out-of-town residents will need an authorization form.

Household Hazardous Waste Day - September 23rd (9am-1pm)

Nantasket Road - Tentative Paving Schedule

Below is the planned schedule for the paving of Nantasket Road. This schedule is weather sensitive and may change due to adverse weather conditions.

September 7^th through September 11^th

The crews will be mobilizing their equipment and conducting some field engineering and surveys. During these two-days, they will be setting up erosion controls and doing miscellaneous prep work.

September 8^th through September 12^th

A crew will be lowering and plating castings

September 11^th through September 15^th

The reclaiming operation will take place

September 15^th through September 18^th

A binder course will be put on the roadway

September 18^th through September 19^th

A binder course will put on the affected driveways

September 19^th through September 21^st

Utility structures in the roadway will be rebuilt and adjusted as needed

September 22^nd

The surface course will be applied to the roadway

September 25^th through September 26^th

The surface course will be applied to the affected driveways

September 27^th

The roadway will have the lines painted

September 25^th through September 29^th

Loaming and seeding of the affected areas will be done

September 28^th through September 29^th

The crews will be leaving

Final Cleanup Before School Begins Tomorrow

The Department of Public Works (Park & Rec Div.) is doing its final cleanup of the area around the Memorial Middle School before school begins for the year tomorrow.

Please be aware of increased pedestrian traffic around all the schools and on all of the approaches to the schools once this years school season begins. Drive safe

New Sign for the Charlie Feist Field

The Hull DPW installed a new sign for the Charlie Feist Ballfield in Kenberma yesterday. The old sign was destroyed by kids, we're hoping that this new sign will be respected the way that Charlie was respected in our schools and in our community.

Remembering A Fallen Sailor

Remembering A Fallen Sailor

Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker has ordered that the United States flag

and the Commonwealth flag be lowered to half-staff

effective Wednesday, August 2, 2017 from sunrise to sunset. 

This is the day of interment for Navy Yeoman 3^rd Class Edmund T. Ryan,

a Massachusetts native combat veteran who served on the USS Oklahoma

and was killed at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. 

His remains have been identified and are returning home to be laid to rest this Wednesday.

Nantasket Beach Clean-up

Nantasket Beach Clean-up

The recent wet weather, high tides and ocean surge have brought in a lot of trash, debris and seaweed, particularly in the upper alphabet section and in the Gunrock area.

A crew from the DPW is now walking the beach beginning at X Street working their way south and another crew is starting at A Street, working their way north until the beach is cleared of trash and debris that is able to be removed by hand.

Due to the volume of seaweed brought in by the tide cycles, it has the potential to become infested with insects and could pose a present or imminent threat to the health or safety of the general public. Because of this, the Board of Health has declared it a Health Emergency. 

With that declaration, the Conservation Administrator issued a Wetlands Protection Act Emergency Certification allowing the Department of Public Works to bring a machine onto the beach to address the situation based on the Required Best Practices and Procedures as described in the Beach Management Plan.

Based on the BMP, we will be starting at the north end of Nantasket Beach this afternoon when the tide starts to drop and will be placing the seaweed back in the water so that it gets carried back out with the dropping tide. 

This process may take a few tidal cycles because it is so thick but we are addressing the situation.

Thank you to Joyce Sullivan at the Board of Health and Chris Krahforst from the Conservation office for all their help with this situation.