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The Board of Health will ask for clarification on a Hudson transfer station expansion proposal that could increase daily capacity from 350 to 850 tons. The project’s air-quality study identified a Marlborough intersection as the most affected location, but board members noted that intersection is a truck exclusion zone; the study concluded emissions would remain below national air-quality standards.
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The board’s main concern was whether the transfer station study correctly identified the Marlborough intersection likely to experience project-related truck traffic. The project is expected to add up to 40 peak-hour vehicles and 76 seconds of delay at the cited intersection, so the director will follow up with Hudson about whether another intersection was intended. The board also left enforcement of Marlborough’s flavored tobacco prohibition unresolved while city officials seek a more consistent approach.
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