Demolition Firm Hopes to Open C&D Plant in MA

W.K. Macnamara, a demolition company headquartered in Waltham, MA, is working with a Massachusetts town to build a construction and demolition recycling facility. If the company receives all the permits needed it will be the first C&D recycling plant for the company.

Kurt Macnamara, owner of the demolition firm, says the company is in the permitting phase with the state of Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection.

In the mean time, the company is expected to go before the city of Devens, Mass., within the next month to present its case. One of the boards the company will have to appear before is the city’s Board of Health.

If the company receives the go-ahead from both the state and local government, it hopes to break ground on the project by early next year, with operations taking place a year later.

According to Macnamara, the facility will be highly automated, and will be capable of handling around 1,500 tons of C&D material a day. It is scheduled to be build at a site that is zoned for heavy industry.

While taking in concrete, wood, OCC, and various types of metal, carpet, and other material generated from a demolition, the company will not be taking in any material deemed a hazardous material, including asbestos.

Along with crushing equipment, conveyor equipment and various types of sorting machinery, the facility hopes to have a rail spur built on the site to allow for the rail movement of some material.

He has been working with potential end consumers for much of the material, and is confident that a ready market for the processed C&D recyclables will be available for the company.

According to local press reports the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection supports such projects, said Meg Delorier of MassDevelopment, the agency developing Devens.

The plant will need a state solid-waste permit, a sewer-extension permit and possibly a conservation and management permit from the state Division of Fisheries and Wildlife.