The Salem news is reporting about a dredging project in Peabody. This sounds to me like an OK to do maintenance on the waters at Oliver Mill.
The City Council kept asking, three times since 2003, for a legal opinion on whether Peabody could use Community Preservation Act money to pay for the dredging of Crystal Lake and Elginwood Pond. After two “nos,” the most recent one coming in 2005, City Solicitor John Christopher wrote in a letter to the council last month that CPA money could be used for dredging.
“The dredging of these waters to reverse the negative impact of eutrophication and sedimentation fall(s) within the CPA’s intent to preserve natural resources and prevent harm or destruction to natural resources, and therefore use of CPA funds for dredging is appropriate,” Christopher wrote.