About

 

The MFN Regional Wastewater District was formed by a partnership and agreement between the Towns of Mansfield, Foxborough, and Norton, Massachusetts, and other municipal corporations. The MFN Regional Wastewater Facility created through the agreement services the public and industrial wastewater needs across the partnership communities. The District is led by the MFN Commission which consists of a seven-member board. The Mansfield Department of Public Works Director serves as the Commission Executive Director.

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Commissioners and Staff

 

Mansfield

  • Michael Trowbridge 
    (Clerk, term expires 6/30/2024) 

  • Matthew Teixeira
    (term expires 6/30/2026)

  • Maureen Doherty
    (term expires 6/30/2025) 

Foxborough

  • Richard M. Pacella, Jr.
    (term expires 6/30/2024) 

  • Christopher F. Gallagher
    (Vice Chairman, term expires 6/30/2025)

Norton

  • Diane McElligott
    (term expires 6/30/2026) 

  • Michael Yunits
    (Chairman, term expires 6/30/2024)

Senior Staff

  • Lee Azinheira
    (Executive Director)

  • Chris Rositer
    (Wastewater Operations Manager) 

 

Our Facility

The District protects community health and the environment by treating sanitary waste and septage to strict discharge standards set by the Environmental Protection Agency and the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection. Located in Norton, adjacent to the Myles Standish Industrial Park, the MFN Regional Wastewater Facility is a 4.14 million gallon-per-day advanced wastewater treatment plant that uses nature’s own biological means of purification, but in a faster, more concentrated way. The facility treats wastewater and septage from Mansfield, Foxborough, Norton, Easton as a customer of Mansfield, and Sharon as a customer of Foxborough. The plant discharges treated effluent to the Three Mile River, which flows to Narragansett Bay via the Taunton River.

Read our Sewer Use Regulations to understand prohibited discharges when using the District’s facility.

Review Treatment Process Flow Diagram

Drone View of Our Facility

 

Our History

To address its growing wastewater needs, the towns of Mansfield, Foxborough, and Norton entered discussions and developed a program for their Comprehensive Wastewater Management Plan (CWMP) that developed a regional solution. As a result, the MFN Regional Wastewater District was created in July 2014. This was the first wastewater district created in the Commonwealth in more than 20 years. Since that time, the District has owned and operated the treatment plant, the main interceptor, and the effluent recharge sites.