BHS Implementing Temporary Parking Changes at Medical Arts Complex

07:50AM / Monday, February 24, 2025Print Story | Email Story

PITTSFIELD, Mass. — As part of the continuing construction work at the Medical Arts Complex (MAC) in Pittsfield, Berkshire Health Systems (BHS) has announced temporary parking modifications to accommodate work on the MAC's main parking area.

These changes will ultimately result in a more convenient and larger lot for patient parking.

The number of spaces will increase by nearly 100, and parking will be available at a flat grade, rather than on a hill, as in the previous lot. The parking changes will impact Medical Arts Complex patients and BHS staff and are estimated to last until mid-spring.

Effective Monday, March 3, 2025, the main patient parking lot on the eastern side of the MAC building (previously accessed through the Charles Street driveway) will be closed until further

notice. Patient parking will be relocated to a marked BHS parking lot on Charles Street directly across from the entry to the MAC main lot. Currently this space is being used as parking for

employees, who will be redirected to other existing staff parking areas.

The patient shuttle bus will relocate to the entryway at the temporary patient parking area. BHS Safety & Security will be on-site during the first week of March assisting with the new traffic flow and signage will be posted delineating the parking changes.

A map outlining the temporary parking changes can be found on the Berkshire Health Systems website.

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EPA, GE Conducting Vernal Pool Study on Housatonic River

By Brittany PolitoiBerkshires Staff
11:44AM / Tuesday, August 11, 2026

PITTSFIELD, Mass. — A pilot study will determine the best way to remediate PCBs, or polychlorinated biphenyls, from vernal pools in the Housatonic River.

Last month, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and General Electric held an open house for the Vernal Pool Pilot Study on Reach 5A, a five-mile stretch between the river's confluence and Lenox border. Despite the rain, several people attended the event at the Berkshire Athenaeum.

EPA project manager Josh Fontaine explained that it is an evaluation of which remediation method to use for the remaining vernal pools in Reach 5A.

"We're going to be testing two different methods. One is an excavation method, which we already know has been very successful with another vernal pool cleaned up much earlier in the project," he said.

"And then the other is the application of two different carbon amendments. It would be the application of powdered activated carbon and the application of granulated activated carbon."

Ten vernal pools will be cleaned using these methods: five with excavation and five with active carbon; seven additional vernal pools will be monitored as controls. Construction will be complete around October, but the pools will be left to their natural processes and monitored with surveys and sampling for three years.

Fontaine said there is no frontrunner for methodology.

"We know the excavation method is effective, but we would like to see if the less invasive method of using the amendment will be as effective for potential use," he said.

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