CPC Approves $8,000 Transfer for History Center

Community Preservation Committee · Meeting of April 13, 2026

Groton's Community Preservation Committee flagged legal doubts over using preservation funds on the West Groton Dam. Members said the state's Community Preservation Coalition reversed course on whether the dam project must meet the Secretary of the Interior's historic preservation standards, and Town Council has not yet issued an opinion before Town Meeting votes on the funding article. One member said the Secretary of the Interior's standards and the state Office of Dam Safety's requirements "are incompatible." Options floated included stripping the Community Preservation Act money from the warrant article or resubmitting the repair as a recreation project in a future cycle.

Separately, the committee approved an $8,000 transfer within a Groton History Center preservation grant and approved payment of $69,076.98 for Cal Pond Brook design work.

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Source: the Community Preservation Committee meeting of April 13, 2026, reported from the official video recording and transcript.

Checked against the record: before publication this article was automatically compared with the meeting transcript. It was corrected where it differed.