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Yahoo
27-04-2025
- Climate
- Yahoo
Pittsfield begins phase two of hydrant flushing on Monday
PITTSFIELD, Mass. (WWLP) – The city of Pittsfield is beginning its second phase of the spring water system flushing schedule on Monday. Hundreds of volunteers gather in Springfield for Green N Fit Neighborhood Rebuild Water mains throughout Pittsfield will be flushed through the hydrants over the next few weeks to remove pipeline corrosion products within the city's water. With phase one complete, phase two is scheduled to occur between Monday, April 28 and Friday, May 2. City officials said that mains will be flushed each day from 7:30 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. Local flushing may cause discolored water and reduced serving pressure conditions in the immediate area where work is being performed, but measures will be taken to ensure that disinfections are maintained. Residents who experience discolored water in their homes this week should let the water run for a brief time to clear it. Phase two of hydrant flushing is expected to affect the following areas: Unkamet Park Drive heading west up North Street, working north to Broadway and Lakeview Streets neighborhood Plastics Avenue, moving west on Dalton Avenue, including Allendale and Allengate neighborhoods. Moving west onto Tyler Street into Morningside neighborhood, including Springside Avenue, pushing west to North Street Lincoln and Fenn Streets, Silver Lake, Wendell Avenue and surrounding vicinity, pushing west to North Street South Mountain and Tamarack roads, Dan Fox Drive, and south to the Pittsfield/Lenox line The city of Pittsfield says that flushing is an important procedure that contributes to the maintenance of the city's water quality. If residents experience persisting discoloration of water or low-pressure conditions during this time period, contact the Pittsfield Water Department at 413-499-9339. WWLP-22News, an NBC affiliate, began broadcasting in March 1953 to provide local news, network, syndicated, and local programming to western Massachusetts. Watch the 22News Digital Edition weekdays at 4 p.m. on Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
Yahoo
27-04-2025
- General
- Yahoo
Hundreds of volunteers gather in Springfield for Green N Fit Neighborhood Rebuild
SPRINGFIELD, Mass. (WWLP) – Hundreds of volunteers worked together Saturday morning to clean up a Springfield neighborhood. Since 1992, Revitalize Community Development Corporation has been helping out in the Springfield area, especially at their annual event, Green N Fit Neighborhood Rebuild. Mass. DCR awards thousands of dollars in grants to expand and protect urban forests 'We've got a great team of people working on 11 homes and one, The Miracle House behind me, which has eight men living there, it's a transitional home for them,' said Colleen Chanley-Loveless, President and CEO of Revitalize CDC. 'We're creating a garden, raised garden beds, for vegetables they won't be able to plant.' Revitalize CDC has brought the western Mass. community together, but also volunteers from up and down the East Coast, from Maine to Florida. 'People giving back, neighbors helping neighbors, and there's so much negativity in the world and it's really nice to be able to experience this,' Chanley-Loveless said. 'It's more of an experience. It's a lot of hard work too, but it's just an experience meeting other people.' Over 600 volunteers and 80 organizations all came together to clean up Calhoun Park and select surrounding homes. 'It's awesome, all these guys back here are also 413 guys,' said Ryan McConnell, a junior on the Springfield College football team. 'I'm from Wilbraham, and it's nice to be able to come over here, give back, but then also to be around in the summer and off-season and be able to see what we've done.' The Springfield College football team volunteered as a part of their annual Give Back Day, helping to clean up the park, create paved walkways, and landscape, heard about the impact they will have on the community. 'I know for this house, especially, they were giving us a little rundown before, the history behind the house and all the people living in it and what it means to them and means to this community to be able to have a nice place for them to come out and really appreciate,' McConnell said. Unfortunately, with the rain, the volunteers were not able to paint on Saturday, but they were still able to make a positive and lasting impact on the community. WWLP-22News, an NBC affiliate, began broadcasting in March 1953 to provide local news, network, syndicated, and local programming to western Massachusetts. Watch the 22News Digital Edition weekdays at 4 p.m. on Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
