"When someone calls, we threads are monitored for 48 hours after publication and then closed. The Transfer Station is closed on Thursday 11/28 - Open normal business hours on Friday 11/29 & Saturday 11/30 (7:30AM to 3:30PM) The Westerly office of the. "We've had lots of mutual aid in the last couple years and ongoing communication about who needs what," Bragaw said. It's work the Stonington three are used to. Private properties are using their own contractors for work, Chiaradio said, but the town continues to remove storm-related debris that residents place curbside. "It's been nonstop this month."Ī contractor assisted the town in clearing the roadways of sand the entire length of Atlantic Avenue, which once was covered by feet of sand, has been cleared. ![]() The Town of Hopkinton, after much research, has decided that it is in the best financial interest of our residents to move away from the Westerly Transfer Station. "We're plugging away to finish by deadline," Chiaradio said. Westerly for our residential waste services for many years have decided to no longer continue with this arrangement. After a certain time period, FEMA no longer reimburses the town for Sandy-related work, he said. and worked until 3 p.m., ridding the community's streets of brush, turning it into wood chips and transporting the chips to the Westerly transfer station.īut for Chiaradio, it's an incredible help as he races against a Federal Emergency Management Agency deadline to get work done. It's a normal work day, but in a different town, for the Stonington crew, which arrived at 7:30 a.m. "Even though we're still cleaning up, we knew there was a neighbor in need." ![]() "They had a lot of devastation down by Misquamicut, so we're just trying to help them out," he said. It's an offer of free help, too, which the hard-hit Westerly was more than happy to accept.įor Stonington Public Works Director Joe Bragaw, whose department has seen its fair share of cleanup work after the storm, it was an easy decision. But Stonington and Westerly, separated by a state line, have formed a special relationship. We've worked together on other projects, like bridge work, so we're familiar."Īlso helping in the cleanup were the Rhode Island towns of Lincoln, Johnston and North Providence. "The towns have a great working relationship, and I feel it starts right at the top with the selectmen and town manager. "We're very appreciative," said Peter Chiaradio, the Westerly superintendent of the Public Works Department. They'll be back there this morning - three men, a dump truck, a wood chipper and a pickup truck - for another work day. On Thursday, public works employees from Stonington helped further the effort, working a full day volunteering their time collecting brush and turning it into wood chips. ![]() Westerly - The Misquamicut Beach landscape is still dominated by large mountains of sand and large yellow equipment, but much progress has been made cleaning up the community in the month since Hurricane Sandy. Joe Ferraro, front, a Stonington Highway Department employee, works with employees from Westerly and Stonington Thursday as they clean up brush from Superstorm Sandy along Bayberry Road in the Misquamicut Beach area of Westerly.
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