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Economically Distressed Areas (EDAs) PURSUANT TO BROWNFIELDS LAW EDAs are areas that are currently an Economic Target Area (ETA) or that would otherwise qualify to be an ETA. Other "areas" defined as three or more contiguous census tracts or one or more contiguous municipalities-may qualify based on the published and other non-published economic criteria. To determine whether a site may be within an area so qualifying, please contact: Lauren Jones - (617) 788-3638
Click on this map to view the large map of Economically Distressed Areas or scroll down to view list of towns.

Abington Acushnet Adams Agawam Amesbury Amherst Andover Aquinnah Ashburnham Ashfield Ashland Athol Attleboro Auburn Avon Ayer Barnstable Barre Becket Bedford Belchertown Bellingham Berkley Bernardston Beverly Billerica Blackstone Boston Bourne Boxborough Boylston Braintree Brewster Brimfield Brockton Brookfield Burlington Cambridge Canton Carver Charlemont Charlton Chatham Chelsea Cheshire Chester Chicopee Clinton Colrain Conway Dalton Dartmouth Dedham Deerfield Dennis Dighton Douglas Dracut Dudley East Brookfield Eastham Easthampton Edgartown Erving Essex Fairhaven Fall River Falmouth Fitchburg Florida Foxborough Framingham Franklin Freetown Gardner |
Gill Gloucester Grafton Great Barrington Greenfield Groton Hanson Hardwick Harwich Hatfield Haverhill Hawley Heath Hingham Hinsdale Holbrook Holland Holyoke Hopedale Hopkinton Hubbardston Hudson Hull Ipswich Lakeville Lancaster Lawrence Lee Leicester Lenox Leominster Leverett Leyden Lowell Ludlow Lunenburg Lynn Manchester Mansfield Marlborough Mashpee Mattapoisett Maynard Medway Mendon Merrimac Middleborough Middlefield Millbury Millville Monroe Monson Montague Monterey Montgomery Natick Needham New Ashford New Bedford New Salem Newburyport Norfolk North Adams North Attleborough North Brookfield North Reading Northampton Northborough Northbridge Northfield Norton Norwood Orange Orleans |
Otis Oxford Palmer Pepperell Phillipston Pittsfield Plainfield Plainville Plymouth Provincetown Quincy Randolph Raynham Revere Rochester Rockland Rockport Rowe Royalston Russell Rutland Salem Salisbury Sandisfield Sandwich Savoy Sheffield Shelburne Shirley Shrewsbury Somerset Somerville South Hadley Southbridge Southwick Spencer Springfield Stockbridge Stoughton Sturbridge Sunderland Sutton Swansea Taunton Templeton Tisbury Truro Upton Uxbridge Wales Walpole Waltham Ware Wareham Warren Warwick Webster Wellfleet Wendell West Bridgewater West Brookfield West Springfield Westfield Westminster Westport Weymouth Whately Whitman Williamstown Winchendon Woburn Worcester Wrentham Yarmouth |
The following municipalities are partially designated as EDAs:
Arlington (Census tracts 3563 and 3564) Chelmsford (Tracts 317101 through 317103) Everett (Tracts 3421, 3422, 3423, 3424, 3425, 3426 and 3427) Lexington (Tracts 3583, 3584 and 3586) Medford (Tract 3398) Milford (Tracts 7442, 7443 and 7444) North Andover (Tract 2532-01) Peabody (Tracts 210400 through 210900) Rehobeth (Tract 633100) Watertown (Tracts 370300 and 370400) Westwood (Tracts 412100 through 412300) Wilmington (Tracts 331200 and 331300)
These former manufactured gas plant sites qualify as EDAs:
Arlington (Grove Street, Mystic Street) Danvers (Merrill Street) Lexington (Merriam Street) Marblehead (Orne Street) Nantucket (Candle Street) Stoneham (Pomeworth Street) |