June 2025: Two bills pending in the Massachusetts Legislature on Sand Mining 

House Bill 918 Click here

“An Act protecting drinking water and public health from sand mining pollution”

Filed by State Representative Michael Connolly of Cambridge MA. It has been assigned to the Joint Committee on Environment and Natural Resources (ENRA) for a hearing and recommendation on whether the Legislature should pass it. See who is on the Committee here.

House Bill 948 Click here

 “An Act to protect the public health, safety and welfare including but not limited to the drinking water supply in Plymouth Carver Sole Source Aquifer, designated under the federal Safe Drinking Water Act by the United States Environmental Protection Agency in 1990”

Filed by State Representative John Gaskey of Carver MA. It been assigned to the Joint Committee on Environment and Natural Resources (ENRA) for a hearing and recommendation on whether the legislature should pass it.