Town Projects
B. Everett Hall Field Redesign Project | Status |
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Please visit the B. Everett Hall Field Redesign Project page for information and project updates.
Funding Funding provided by the Town’s Community Preservation Fund. |
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Catch Basin Cleaning Program | Status |
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Fireworks Site | Status |
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Summary Please visit the Former National Fireworks Site page for information and project updates. |
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Forge Pond Park Lighting | Status |
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Summary This project will provide an engineered overview plan and costs for lighting layouts, controls, and power distribution to provide systems for safe evening ball field uses. The increased demand to utilize this complex for recreational activities has resulted in the need to find ways to maximize usage opportunities. The addition of field lighting may provide the ability for the Town to alleviate certain time constraints on usage that puts a burden on the complex and its users.
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Hanover Crossing | |
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Hanover Crossing is an exciting mixed-use location that combines an open-air retail experience with 297 high-end residential units to form an amenities-rich “Live, Work, Play” destination experience.
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Hanover High School Turf and Track Upgrades | Status |
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Summary Improvements and replacements need to be made to the track, turf field, and athletic facility at Hanover High School. This is a planned replacement of the artificial turf at the high school turf field. The existing turf is now twelve years old and is reaching the end of its useful life, which is normally ten years. The project will also relocate the long jump pits to the east end zone, allowing for the widening of the turf surface for soccer and lacrosse, as well as make repairs to, re-coat, and re-stripe the surface of the existing track.
Funding The 2022 Annual Town Meeting voted in favor of an appropriation to fund this project - HHS Turf Field and Track ($1,750,000 Debt) |
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Hanover Police Accreditation | Status |
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Summary Hanover Police Department has begun the lengthy process of becoming Accredited, whereby HPD will be recognized as meeting the standards considered to be best practices in the profession. This process will entail going through all of the Department’s policies, procedures, facilities, and equipment to identify where the Department meets or needs to work on meeting the standards of best practices on a National Level.
Accreditation will not only help the Department on a day-to-day basis, but will also aid in attracting the best candidates as positions open up within the Department. Once achieved, there will annual reviews to maintain the accreditation.
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Hanover Police Body Worn Camera Program | Status |
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Summary Hanover Police Department is actively pursuing grant opportunities to fund the Body Worn Camera Program.
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Hanover Police Co-Response Program | Status |
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Summary The Hanover Police Department launched a Co-Response Program in September 2023, which pairs a mental health clinician with a uniformed police officer. Our clinician, Jillian Wager, responds to calls for service, including all mental health emergency calls in town. By design, this program utilizes the specific skillset of a trained clinician to assist police in de-escalating situations in which we encounter someone actively in crisis. As our Clinician, Jillian’s mission is to assess an individual’s level of crisis and determine a proper level of care. Individuals are then provided with services in order to keep them safe and supported within the community while also diverting them from the criminal justice system when/if appropriate.
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Hanover Police Comfort Dog Program | Status |
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Summary Hanover’s request has been accepted and HPD is on the waitlist to receive a donated comfort dog from Boonefield Labradors. It is anticipated that HPD will receive the dog in the Spring and thereafter will begin having the dog accompany his or her handler on project outreach, family intervention cases and in crisis situations in order to provide comfort, stress relief, and emotional support to those affected by crisis or disasters. Furthermore, it is anticipated that the comfort dog will promote strong relationships and trust between the Hanover Police Department and the Community which it serves.
The selection process for the Policeman or Policewoman who will serve as the Comfort Dog Handler is anticipated to begin soon, with Boonefield Labradors taking part in the interview process in order to assure that the dog will be treated as a member of the family.
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Hanover Police Mall Officer Program | Status |
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Summary A “Special Police Officer” will have the duty to preserve the peace, protect life and property, prevent crime, apprehend criminals, and enforce the law in the Hanover Crossing Shopping Area within the Town of Hanover. |
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Hanover Trail Improvements | Status |
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Summary This project is for improvements including trail/bridgework, viewing platform (Chapman’s Landing), signage, and boardwalks, to be made to the following trails; Chapman’s Landing, French’s Stream, Colby Phillips, Denham Property, and Folly Hill. Hanover residents widely use our trail system and these improvements will further the goal of the Community Preservation Fund.
Funding $7,500 of which is estimated to be used on the Chapman Landing Viewing Platform project with the rest to be used on similar trail improvements as written in the article. |
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John Curtis Free Library HVAC Upgrades | Status |
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Summary The current system is 20 years old and has required some recent repairs. This project aims to modernize components and make improvements for long-term reliability and operation.
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John Curtis Free Library Long Range Plan | Status |
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Summary The John Curtis Free Library will form a focus group of approximately 20 people in April of 2023. The Group will be made up of representatives from agencies as well as Hanover residents from various walks of life. The goal is to identify what people would like to see from the library going forward and create a 5-year plan with three realistic and achievable goals as well as develop steps to achieve those goals within 5 years. |
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Nathan Estates | Status |
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Summary Please check back for an update. |
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Oakland Estates | Status |
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Parcel 30-12, Washington Street | Status |
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Summary The owners of a vacant parcel of land (Parcel ID 30-12; hereinafter the "Parcel") having frontage on Washington Street (Route 53) are offering to sell the Parcel to the Town of Hanover. The Parcel is located adjacent to the YMCA Early Learning Center, 1075 Washington Street. The Parcel is located within a well protection zone. Should the Town of Hanover purchase the Parcel, the land would increase the area of land already owned by the Town within the well protection zone.
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PFAS Information | Status |
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Summary This project will allow funding to perform upgrades to the Pond Street Water Treatment Plant to meet new drinking water regulations established by MassDEP. In October 2020, MassDEP promulgated a new drinking water regulation setting the maximum contaminant level (MCL) of 20 nanograms per liter for the sum of six perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS6) This past summer, we found that water from our Pond Street Treatment Plant is in excess of this new drinking water regulation.
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Hanover Branch Rail Trail Extension | Status |
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Funding $22,000 from the Community Preservation Fund, and $379,142 awarded from the MassTrails Grant.
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Roadway Resurfacing and Paving Work | Status |
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Route 139 Corridor Study | |
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The study will provide a comprehensive assessment of existing conditions (traffic volumes and speed, congestion levels (level of service), pavement conditions, lighting, signage, sidewalks and other pedestrian infrastructure, bicycle capacity, and crash history and crash rates). The study will forecast future conditions based on both baseline growth and anticipated development.
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Street Sweeping Program | Status |
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Sylvester Field Conservation | Status |
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Sylvester School Building | Status |
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Water Meter Replacement Project | |
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Residents may have received a door notice indicating that their water meter needs to be replaced. The DPW is stepping up its efforts to replace aging water meters. The goal of this multi-year program is to replace all water meters over a ten-year cycle. Older meters can currently be read through a touchpad mounted on the side of the house. Newer meters are read via a radio. Currently, 58.7 percent of the existing meters can be read from the street via a radio. The goal of the program is to convert all meters to radio reads. While improving meter reading efficiency, the newer technology has additional benefits such as the minimization of meter reading errors, minimization of the need to access private property, the ability to show customers when their water is being used, and the ability to detect if there is a probable leak in the plumbing system.
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Waterline Replacement Program | Status |
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Wind Turbine Removal | Status |
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