Cohasset panel presses water board on $8 million wetland lagoon plan
Conservation Commission · Meeting of September 10, 2026
Cohasset Conservation Commission presses water officials on wetland impact of $8 million treatment-plant upgrade. The commission continued, without a vote, a Cohasset Water Commission plan to replace two aging sludge-drying lagoons at 339 King Street with three larger ones, after Vice Chair Steven Magnell said the project's wetland replication plan "taken a buffer that exists and you've tried to turn it into a weapon." Water commission member Chris Pratt said the "opinion of probable cost is just shy of $8 million," with special town meeting borrowing authorization expected next month. Engineers project water demand will rise nearly 90 percent, to 1.43 million gallons a day, by 2045.
Separately, the commission voted 5-0-0 to approve a negative determination for a float at 216 Atlantic Ave, issued an order of conditions and two herbicide variances for invasive-species removal on Jerusalem Road and Atlantic Avenue, and lifted an enforcement order against a North Main Street homeowner whose landscaper used unauthorized herbicide.
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Source: the Conservation Commission meeting of September 10, 2026, reported from the official video recording and transcript.
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