The Ayer Select Board will conduct a public hearing on Feb. 3rd at 6:30 pm regarding an application to connect the Town of Ayer’s sewer system to 434 Old Ayer Road in Groton. If the Select Board votes to recommend the connection, this will be placed on the April 27th Annual Town Meeting warrant. Read the notice.
We requested the written materials as noted in the public hearing notice and received a copy of the application dated Dec. 29, 2025. The applicant is requesting approval to explore whether sewer can be connected for a single-family residence with three bedrooms. If the sewer connection is authorized, a building permit would be sought in Groton.
This property is near the Ayer/Groton town line. If you start at the former Nashoba Valley Medical Center property, you are on Groton Road in Ayer. The road becomes Old Ayer Road when you cross over the Groton town line.
In Ayer, applications for out-of-town sewer connections must go before the Select Board and a public hearing must be held. The next step is Town Meeting approval. The town regulation with the exact language is noted in the public hearing notice.
We recall that Town Meeting has considered a few requests in recent years, though these have been to support commercial or larger housing development.
One of these extensions was approved in 2015. Special Town Meeting approved an out-of-town sewer extension down Westford Road into Groton (Article 13). Later, the Town of Ayer entered into an intermunicipal agreement with the Town of Groton to provide a sewer extension that now serves the Groton Four Corners Sewer District (the area around Shaw’s grocery store).