As part of its overall strategy to effectively provide emergency resources for the entire Northeast Region, NERAC has established 3 Cache Sites located in the communities of Beverly, Framingham, and Lexington.

Having regionally shared equipment leverages the value and utility of equipment that municipalities cannot usually afford to buy on their own, such as multiple large lighting towers, variable electronic message boards, or large numbers of cots, sandbags, or barricades.

 The caches have been used many times since the establishment of the Beverly site in 2006.  Light towers and other equipment from the cache were used in several locations in the flood of May 2006, the Danvers explosion of November 2006, the 2011 ice storms, and Hurricane Irene.  These are just a few instances in which the existing regional equipment caches have proven their worth. 

In order to ensure sustainability of the cache system NERAC, under the approval and guidance of EOPSS has instituted a nominal daily use fee for frequently in demand cache resources.  These minimal revenues will provide the host sites with the means to maintain and operate the caches and will cover basic equipment maintenance and any costs associated with delivering equipment to borrowers.