Dick Lindsay is reporting for The Berkshire Eagle a leading opponent of the planned PCB disposal site in Lee, Mass. wants the town's Board of Health to intervene in the matter. The Housatonic River Initiative has formally asked the three-person panel to hold a public hearing and then vote on whether to block the Upland Disposal Facility from being built in a former quarry just south of Woods Pond. That facility is now planned to be the burial location for roughly a million cubic yards of soil and sediment with relatively lower levels of PCB contamination."The Lee Board of Health has the right to assess if the dump is unhealthy to the town," HRI Executive Director Timothy Gray said. "It would terrible if the dump goes through, as it will come back to haunt us forever." The health board has indicated it may not have the power to prevent the landfill from being part of the Rest of River cleanup, as spelled out by the federal Environmental Protection Agency,. The chair has advised Gray that it may be unable to intervene. In early 2020 Lee and four other river communities approved a river cleanup deal with the EPA and GE that includes the installation of a lined, in-ground waste facility to accept some of the PCB-tainted sediment dredged from the river. But throughout the cleanup debate, residents have opposed putting a PCB landfill in Lee. Voters backed a non-binding resolution this year directing the town to pull out of the agreement that would allow sediments containing the probable carcinogen to be buried in an engineered landfill in a former quarry. The HRI has been fighting to stop the landfill since it was announced and the group is now appealing the current cleanup plan. Read the full story in The Berkshire Eagle.