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History & Culture of Notch Forest

Acres of trees surrounding our public drinking water.

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Residents of Notch Road remember soil pouring down our road following private logging up the road, flooding driveways and basements after heavy rains. Before that Hurricane Irene barreled through North Adams and the Berkshires leaving roadways washed out and the Spruces mobile homes displaced. Look back further to 1901 to remember the great landslide on Mt. Greylock. With increasingly stronger storms, and the evidence that North County is not immune to such damaging storms, should we be clearing out maturing trees directly above our public water supply?

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