5/30/12 - Spoke to Dennis McCaffery (dennis.mccaffery@us.ngrid.com) - he thinks that the project is do-able, but could take us to next year to get it all completed. Usually they don't like to go across private property to tie in, but since he is so familiar with this area and Fuller Village has already granted an easement, he will work on it (although he said he wasted tons of time on this a couple years ago for the neighbors - he will try to get me their name - and was frustrated when they just terminated pursuing the gas connection without informing him).
He said he will go out to the site today and figure out a price (accurate within a couple thousand dollars), it will be created operating under the assumption that Fuller Village will allow an easement to tie in to their pipe. He will meet me next Wednesday morning at the site to review all aspects of the process. If Fuller Village agrees to the easement, then National Grid will seek approval from the Town of Milton (a rubber stamp process). I will email Barry Cullen to see if he can join us.
He says that once the abutters are notified of the hearing, a lot of others might want to jump on the bandwagon, which will slow the process, but possibly (not definitely, though) make for economies of scale. He thinks that it probably wouldn't get completed this year, but the Millingtons might consider using propane for this coming winter and then switch to gas once the job is completed.
John Thompson out today - try him tomorrow at 617-898-4869
Kathy Bowen suggested calling Melissa Rivera, her contact at National Grid who deals with permits. 781-907-2897 (did not answer phone call).
Will get Bill Guarnagia's number from Jack for more ideas from him.
Spoke to Barry, he will try to reach Dennis now to see if he has better luck. Barry spoke to Dennis about a month ago and he said that the closest existing line is 230 feet from property, and that Dennis said he was extremely familiar with area because he had been through this before.
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