protect the lake and our natural resources
Proposed Development Across from and on Shore of Lake Nippenicket
Send your comment referencing Lakeshore Center Phase 4 and EEA #16558
to [email protected], MEPA Analyst at the Massachusetts Environmental Policy Act Office (MEPA) by
Friday, July 11, 2025
Final Environmental Impact Report (FEIR) & Notice of Project Change (NPC)
Lakeshore Center Phase 4 /EEA #16558 / Bridgewater, MA
Please Take Action & Comment by Monday, July 11, 2025!
Lakeshore Center Phase 4 / 64+ Acre Project / MEPA Final Environmental Impact Report (FEIR) and Notice of Project Change (NPC) Filing – Hockomock Swamp Area of Critical Environmental Concern / Lake Nippenicket, Headwaters of the Town River; Great Pond; Zone II Aquifer for the Town of Raynham
How: Send your comment referencing Lakeshore Center Phase 4/EEA #16558 to [email protected] (MEPA Analyst) by July 11, 2025.
FEIR and NPC information are available to view and download on this page (keep scrolling!)
What: Claremont Companies has filed a for a 64.2-acre project known as “Lake Shore Center Phase 4” / EEA # 16558. The project includes:
Who: The grassroots Lake Nippenicket Action Focus Team needs help to get out the word that MEPA should require the proponent to provide additional studies, data, and project alternatives that reduce environmental and community impacts. The revised size and scope of this proposed project will impact natural resources, such as Lake Nippenicket, Hockomock Swamp, Town River and the Taunton River that are important for our entire state!
Where: The proposed development is located along Route 104 near Lake Nippenicket, in Bridgewater, Massachusetts.
Why: Claremont, the developer must find feasible alternatives to the “destruction and impairment, actual or probable” to this Area of Critical Environmental Concern. Projects within an ACEC “are reviewed with closer scrutiny to avoid or minimize adverse environmental impacts."
Thank you for your interest in LNAFT and your efforts to protect Lake Nippenicket. Please send your comment referencing Lakeshore Center Phase 4/EEA #16558 to [email protected] (MEPA Analyst) by July 11, 2025.
Lakeshore Center Phase 4 / 64+ Acre Project / MEPA Final Environmental Impact Report (FEIR) and Notice of Project Change (NPC) Filing – Hockomock Swamp Area of Critical Environmental Concern / Lake Nippenicket, Headwaters of the Town River; Great Pond; Zone II Aquifer for the Town of Raynham
How: Send your comment referencing Lakeshore Center Phase 4/EEA #16558 to [email protected] (MEPA Analyst) by July 11, 2025.
FEIR and NPC information are available to view and download on this page (keep scrolling!)
What: Claremont Companies has filed a for a 64.2-acre project known as “Lake Shore Center Phase 4” / EEA # 16558. The project includes:
- 5-story 110 room hotel
- 4-story, 255-unit 55+ residential community
- 2-story 80-bed inpatient rehabilitation hospital
- Drive thru cafe
- Restaurant along the shores of Lake Nippenicket, a Great Pond.
Who: The grassroots Lake Nippenicket Action Focus Team needs help to get out the word that MEPA should require the proponent to provide additional studies, data, and project alternatives that reduce environmental and community impacts. The revised size and scope of this proposed project will impact natural resources, such as Lake Nippenicket, Hockomock Swamp, Town River and the Taunton River that are important for our entire state!
Where: The proposed development is located along Route 104 near Lake Nippenicket, in Bridgewater, Massachusetts.
Why: Claremont, the developer must find feasible alternatives to the “destruction and impairment, actual or probable” to this Area of Critical Environmental Concern. Projects within an ACEC “are reviewed with closer scrutiny to avoid or minimize adverse environmental impacts."
- Lake Nippenicket, a Great Pond serves as the headwaters of the Town River which flows into the Taunton River. The wetlands of Lakeshore Center are hydrologically connected to Lake Nippenicket via streams.
- Over 14 acres of forest will be cleared. The project disturbs 23.92 acres of land and creates 6.87 acres of impervious area.
- Work, including buildings, parking, stormwater drainage is proposed within the 100-foot buffer zone of wetland resource areas and construction of projects is pushed out to the 25-foot “no touch” Town Bylaw wetland buffer. No work should be permitted within the 100-foot buffer zone of this environmentally sensitive area.
- The Northern site where the restaurant is planned is within NHESP Priority Habitat of Rare Species; included in the Biomap Aquatic Core of Lake Nippenicket and Biomap Priority Natural Communities Core.
- The Lakeshore Center site is on the Zone II aquifer for the Town of Raynham. More information is needed regarding impacts of the project to the aquifer.
- The proponent has classified the Northern Stream as “intermittent.” It is clearly marked as Perennial on the USGS Geological Survey Topographical Maps and entitled the protections noted in the Rivers Protection Act.
- The project will increase Lakeshore Center’s daily water use by an additional 101,100 Gallons per Day.
- The project will increase Lakeshore Center’s daily wastewater generation by an additional 81,365 Gallons per Day.
- The project will add 705 new parking spaces to Lakeshore Center and an additional 4,800 vehicle trips per day.
Thank you for your interest in LNAFT and your efforts to protect Lake Nippenicket. Please send your comment referencing Lakeshore Center Phase 4/EEA #16558 to [email protected] (MEPA Analyst) by July 11, 2025.
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