thank you all for attending this evening's uh Conservation Commission for all those that wish to please stand to salute the flag I to the flag United States of America to the Republic for which it stands one nation under God indivisible
with liberty and justice for all thank you uh do a roll call uh Brian here uh Thomas here uh Joseph lval here uh
Bernardo here Amelia here and Wilson is uh not present uh today we do have a associate commissioner joining us today Dora howlet I'd like uh all of our commissioners give her a nice warm welcome um thank you very much for being
willing to serve but as an associate commissioner she will not be able to vote or sign any of the documents that we do vote on um you will however be able to participate fully in every other capacity but thank you for joining
us uh first up is uh review and approval of the meeting minutes uh do I have any changes or additions to the meeting minutes from last time no okay uh can I get a motion to approve last time's meeting minutes I'll
make a motion to approve the meeting minutes second second all in favor I excellent I [Music] um we're have to take a brief recess
please uh motion to take a brief recess a motion to make a brief recess second all in favor hi thank you um e
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e e e okay first up on the agenda tonight is a notice of intent D file number 061 0834 this is the Mullen Highway development uh company LLC the suboc
Downs offsite roadway improvements that we walk down now what is it few weeks ago now um this was to basically make Road improvements to better the flow of traffic in the area and
um enhance the suff Downs area open the hearing perfect excellent good evening uh Rick latini um civil engineer with how Stein Hudson and I'm joined tonight uh with Abby Middleton uh she's representing the
applicant the mlen highway development company um as you can see um this is a transportation Improvement project it's related to the uh master plan Redevelopment of SDS which you can see on the right side of this board our improvements are located off the
southwesterly portion of the site um the area that's in red the hatch in red that's in the city of Boston and the portion that's in the city of Rivier is in Orange so um these are uh basically
minor activities within the route 1A which is a state highway that's owned and maintained as you know by Mass do um the purpose is to improve vehicle and pedestrian safety as well as accessibility out there the work as I
explained out in the site when I you out there was um the work remains within the footprints of the existing sidewalks in the roadways and of course um we'll have erosion and siment control proper erosion and siment control such as compost filter tubes and uh catch Bas
and filters such as silt sack um so just to go over I'll go through the project quickly hopefully within 5 minutes uh the route 1A is a urban principal artery uh has two lanes of traffic in each Direction sidewalking each side as
you probably know uh today Thomas Elway is not signalized however you can take a uturn at at Thomas Elway Northbound to go head back in the southbound direction and you can also take a left turn southbound going into Thomas Elway
um so I'll zoom into our intersection let's go over the improvements really quickly uh we we are modifying this existing traffic Island a little bit to provide a better queue for that U-turn as well as I make this Lane it's 9 ft now we're going to make it 11
ft we're also adding this cement concrete median here in the middle uh that first of all it separates that U-turn and the left turn traffic we're also putting a new traffic signal in there uh this this island here it has a widening near what's called The Jug Jug
Handle over here and we're eliminating that widening so we can have a consistent median width and what that does it allows us to extend that left turn q into Thomas way uh since we're adding signals here which don't exist um they will have a a
pedestrian phase so we'll be able to add a Crossing across route 1A which doesn't exist near this area now we're also reconstructing the uh edge of the end of Thomas Elway we're narrowing it a little bit here which you can see by this green hatch uh reconstructing
this island here kind of give it a curve to the right because it's a right turn only out of Thomas Elway so that'll further reinforce that motion uh we are reconstructing the driveway here it's called it's called the massport driveway but it's actually the norly entry into 480 McCullen
highway so all this actually is within the city of and um the work in R is mostly Around The Jug Handle which if you guys know is is a place where you can turn around from the southbound to go back to the Northbound Direction that's the primary purpose of it that is signalized today but we are going to
replace all the signals with new signals and similarly we're adding a pedestrian Crossing at Route one8 so that'll be a few more pedestrian signals we're adding uh so we don't think there'll be any negative impacts of the resource areas here um M of fact most of this project isn't even within the 100 buffer
which is this Dash red line here there is a land subject to Coastal storm flow on the northly portion of the project it's that magenta line that kind of goes through the center line of The Jug Handle and that continues northly off the sheet but in this area we're just doing trapic signalization
reconstruction ramps um and we're not like widening the roadway and there's no material change in grades so we're here tonight uh requesting the commission consider issuing some order conditions to allow this transation Improvement project to
go forward thank you I'll take questions thank you very much um one of the questions that I had when we did the site walk down was there was a bridged area that came over I believe it was just before the riv side uh what kind of sediment controls or erosion controls
are you going to be implementing over there I know it's on the Boston side but it's kind of it goes down river to us yeah you're yeah you're talking about here yes there's a pretty pretty big cover here and there's there's a drop off if you remember remember so there's there's a wall there that actually protects sediment from going over but I
think as we discussed here we'd probably put the compost filter tubes and just tie it right up against the God reil okay and the god reil actually has a little bit of Li above the sidewalk so it's like almost double protection if you will so that's I think we even discussed even we got off the bridge we'd still try to keep the compost filter tube up against that God rail
even that embankment past the bridge once you get onto the rever side it it there is opportunity for sediment and things to get in over in that area it's just a and on the side where The Jug Handle uh exits the same situation is happening over there yeah right there so
I just want to make sure that you're rosing controls are robust in those areas yeah like I said we just we just proposing the 12in compost buil the tube just because it's sidewalk work so there won't be a lot of disturbance okay um at this time I want to open up
to any of the other Commissioners if they have any questions about the project are you just milling and overlaying sorry I forgot to mention the there is there is some when we're all done putting the traffic signal conduits and stuff we will be Mill and overlan from on on the Northbound side from
Thomas Elway all the way here to the end of the project just pass The Jug Handle on the uh on on the North by bound and sound here we'll be Milling an overlaying from here to just past Thomas L so couple areas of Mill and overlay yes any other
questions um so at this time I'd like to put it up to any opponents of the uh proposed project nope uh and any proponents you don't count
but um okay uh so seeing is how you will be managing your sedimentation that could be developed from this you're not changing grade and uh it would be a minimal impact to just reconfigure Lanes
in this situ uation and also enhancing the traffic patterns is also something that is going to alleviate some of the road damage that occurs in that area getting into our protected areas so um at this time i' would like to call for
uh to approve the notice of intent for this work I'll make a motion to approve the noi for this work second second all in favor I I I excellent um thank you very much for
your time okay next up is a notice of intent D file 061 0833 uh this is R Mass own LLC 277 Park EV 45th floor um this is for the Lieber Bank
Highway proposed construction of a 77 77,000 ft technology warehousing development with some office space as well open the hearing excuse me sorry jump the gun a little there thank you so
exting site which is below this the commission's gone out and reviewed and was part of the previous approval if you recall oh the mic's oh I didn't even see thank you sorry about that all right sorry about
that just for the record Scott Morrison from BHB um the existing site is um located at 96 to 186a Burbank Highway if you recall we were back before this Commission in the fall for the demolition work um so we're here tonight
with the the followup the development of the the proposed site so the site consists of a 9.9 Acre Site um along Chelsea Creek which which is in the rear proposed Warehouse building um there's an existing Warehouse building fueling
station that was demoed or is in the process of being demoed and previously approved there's really no um natural buffers in between the Wetland resource areas in the existing site it's you know either building pavement or compacted gravel the proposed project consists of
a 70 thou 77,6 ft technology Warehouse um loading dock parking utility improvements and storm water system there'll be some significant storm water improvements um there's an existing
discharge pipe here that takes water from the the the project area the existing site and direct discharges it here the proposed project will include deep sump catch basins water quality unit and a subsurface sand filter prior
to any discharge um to the creek so a substantial Improvement there are some Wetland impacts um associated with this project the vast majority of the project is within land sub the coastal storm Flowage so we've got four
429,000 square feet of impact to land sub the coastal storm Flowage that's associated with the project site um buildings and and parking lots and in that area there's no impact to bordering vegetative Wetland we've got 40 square
fet of impact to Coastal Beach associated with the storm water discharge we've also got 42 square fet of Coastal Bank impact also associated with the the discharge we've also got 135,000 ft of impact to Riverfront area
that riverfront area is previously degraded so existing building existing pavement existing gravel um we have sent a copy of the noce of intent to the division of marine fisheries they issued a letter indicating that there's no timey year restrictions or or any issues with the
proposed project we've also forwarded we just received the final letter this afternoon yeah we saw I saw that for Mass wildlife for the negative determination yes so that we've got the will not adversely affect letter from natural heritage um I think at this
point I'd be happy to answer questions but um we're seeking a order conditions um I don't have any questions it's the site as it stands is pretty degraded and the fact that you will be making
your storm water management system pre-treating before you're putting it out there is definitely something that is going to enhance the site um considering the amount of rock salt and Road um treatment that gets done in that area so that's good on you guys for
doing that um any other questions from Commissioners um Mr chairman y to you uh to the gentleman those uh parking spaces on the uh left- hand side look substantial are those mostly for trucks
or for and and what kind of materials are you expecting to have in those I to my knowledge that they don't have an end user for this building it would be constructed on Spa so they don't have a a end user and and materials that would be stored in here so would uh would the
end user NE uh change any of the uh drainage of filtering that you would need in that particular parking area no what's proposed for the storm water so the Deep sum catch basins the water quality unit
and the sand filter are all proposed that's going to be permitted and constructed as part of this the other thing that I didn't mention that I wanted to mention was that based upon this we're actually proposing 1.6 acres of added landscape and approximately a
100 new trees so there'll be some substantial improvements as far as landscape and and trees and such I had another question is there still a railroad spur in the back yes and are you removing that no there's a
railroad spur that cuts across in the back the only place that would be impacted would be associated with the storm water discharge where it crosses those existing tracks have you guys been pered by uh MBTA with that yet or no yeah one
correction I believe correct me if I'm wrong the the behind the building will be removed for the record Dan catches with VHB so there is a small railroad portion back here it's behind right adjacent to the existing Warehouse building on the project site and that a
portion of that will be removed um and we are in process with mea for the license good luck good luck uh any other questions just with an area with that much Frontage to
everything um one of the things I think but is whether or not in your lease for a new tenant well I don't know if someone's already signed or if you have a lease agreement in place to just make sure that they will upkeep the area because it's very easy for people throwing stuff out and it just ending up
in places and then 20 years later it looks like a pit so just to kind of make sure it you know as this obviously is beautifying the area just even being a Building compared to what it was I just want to make sure that it's going to be upkept whether it's through you or part of the lease of whoever's coming next
yeah so I'm just to be clear I'm the Wetland scientist on the project with VHB we'll alert the the you know the the property owner and applicant regarding that I'm sure that you know he's going to invest substantial amounts of money in a new building the last thing he
wants is to have debris and other people dumping material on his site so I'm sure it'll be kept up but I'll Express that concern to him I definitely can Echo that a little bit it just it's so close to a such a degraded
resource that having that maintained would definitely be something that I would be probably putting a special condition so that it would be maintained as such um and what kind of plantings were you thinking of putting in that area would you would you be enhancing it
with the natur our native plantings or is it mostly going to be grass behind the building if I remember correctly it's mostly grass most of the landscape plantings and trees are kind of in the front and along the sides okay because it's really kind of a narrow SWAT they'll have to kind of
maintain it because it's right up against the back of the building so kind of probably periodic mowing there I would definitely want to see what you would be using for plantings on the property um and make sure that it's compatible with our existing this this
area here you know if we're going to try and beautify and make it better let's make it better all the way y get and there was a there's a detailed landscape plan that was provided as as part of the materials mhm I didn't see uh what the I saw that it was going to be primarily grass I didn't see what kind
of trees that on it I I don't know why I must have missed it I don't recall the specific trees um any other questions yeah just an administrative comment uh the order of conditions for demo and then the order of conditions for construction for
each one of these Lots has been a lot of work a lot of stuff for us a lot of s sidewalks a lot of confirming things are in place so just for future reference I understand the schedule but this building's still standing right now so we didn't really need to do it but just
just for for vhp's knowledge yep understood I know that you've removed I drive that by that site quite often and I know that some of the piping has been removed but yeah the building's still up and it's got a long way to go yeah
agreed um so at this time i' like to open it up for anybody in the audience that is opposed to this project if they would like to speak okay uh same rules apply to you you can't speak in in favor of it uh but anybody in favor of the project that
would like to speak on it okay thank you very much thank you very much um all right so close the hearing out uh so at this time
um seeing how it will be an enhancement and definitely getting any of the oil things out of that area is an enhancement in my humble opinion but uh I would like to put it to the commission to call to approve uh this project here
this notice of intent I would make a motion to approve the noi second all in favor I that was a little Reverb there all right well thank you very much you appr all right
you're welcome all right next up we have a request for determination of applicability and this is the commuter train RightWay uh MBTA vegetation management plan now before we get started I know
it's um certain certifications and things need to be held to be able to go out and inspect these areas and to be able to work in these areas so and none of us hold those credentials and it would be very difficult to manage us
getting out there to actually see the site so if you can give us a little bit more insight uh as to what you are doing for this RDA I would appreciate that uh no the yep there you are you're and if you could state your name and yes hello everyone I'm Matt Donovan from
Benish here to represent kis for this RDA confirm the accuracy of the maps used for IDE application along the commuter rail RightWay um we submit this RDA to your commission every 5 years required by cmr1 um and it's required to get these determinations before
submitting the 5year vegetation management plan to amass Department of agricultural resources um the vegetation management plan is designed to manage and control vegetation necessary to keep the railroad and operations safe and regulations are in place to keep
sensitive areas protective throughout the duration of the plan um the sensitive area restrictions are listed and described in CMR 11.04 as well as our vegetation management plan the maps that we've provided you with are mainly made for
the chemical portion of the plan but often dictate where mechanical methods will be used due to chemical restrictions there are two two main chemical applications each year one in the May June time frame that targets the roaded and one in the August September
time frame that targets the brush and areas adjacent to the roaded the sensitive areas marked with the blue and yellow areas on your maps are restricted from the brush program and only receive the road bed application which is what I'll focus on because that's the only program that happens in these sensitive
areas under of jurisdiction um so the road bed application is performed with a spray truck that drives on the track and is equipped with nozzles on the backside located about 18 in above the tracks um and it sprays to the solution directly down onto the
track um the truck has arms that extend at the same elevation um has arms that extend out approximately 12T from the center line of the track to Target the shoulders of the road bed um the certified applicator is always
accompanied by an environmental monitor familiar with the site conditions and equipped with these Maps instructing the operator as necessary the applicator has the ability to turn all of the nozzles off or in many cases just the side um where it targets the shoulder of the
track or it may be getting into the buffer zone of these sensitive areas the yellow zones um never will receive herbicides on the shoulders and often times won't receive any herbicide
application um but the environmental Monitor and applicator at their discretion May spray directly down onto the tracks um just where to the edge of the tie where the track needs to be totally free of all vegetation um the
blue are areas typically represent being within 100 ft of a sensitive area and these um these zones typically receive the full Road bed treatment but the environmental Monitor and applicator are on alert to shut off the the sides the
shoulders um for what if if at any point in that area there's like wetness or any water in the ditches or anything in that area they won't be spraying um within 10 ft of that um um in these blue and yellow zones due to the limited spray
more effort is put into controlling the vegetation with physical and mechanical measures as needed um the chemicals that are used vary each year but are T are typically chosen by the certified applicator in coordination with kolis um all these chemicals come from
the approved sensitive area material list provided by Mass Department of agricultural resources and we provide the exact um mixtures in the yearly operation plan that we send to your commission every year um that you should have just received for the
2025 um your commission does have the opportunity to comment on the VMP when we during the review process when we do submit it after we get all these determinations um in it'll probably end up being at the end of this end of summer um to be ready for the 2026 to
2030 um time frame so I'm happy to go open it up to questions and if you have any specific areas of interest um we are we are requesting a positive 2A determination to confirm the maths and a Nega -2 um as your commission has done
in the past to to exempt from the the work to be done so because this is um the area where it is it is exempt um and we do appreciate you coming before us every five years to recertify this
plan and um the plan that you did submit definitely outlined in a lot of detail what kind of where and how you're going to be applying the aides now is it mostly for the fragm might's encroaching on that area what
what is it basically to mitigate that I wasn't really so you'd be surprised if you if you just Let It Go the actual ballast ballasted track section which is the most important part to keep clear that'll start growing weeds and almost grassy type weeds um um and that's
really that's the main objective like the number one area to keep clear and that's in your areas of jurisdiction that is all we'll be doing is keeping that ballast area CLE clear um as far as herbicides go um so it's it's
any it's a full eradication of any weeds in that 12T from Center Line of track I didn't realize the weeds would be able to do offset your bis that much yeah and the bis is um and it's a structural part and drainage and it it keeps the in you
can inspect the track um um I don't have any further questions does anybody else have any questions in regards to this project uh it is exempt under the Wetland protection act for this work um but I would call for a negative determination um that this will not
impact uh the wetlands oh I'm sorry I didn't see you didn't see you over there sir apologize I just have a question I never be been a fan of chemicals throwing chemicals I know this whatever chemical yeah and and my question is have you heard any
conversations to probably the reason why we go with chemicals is cost effective that's probably why the main reason any do you know for the future they looking to do other ways again this whatever Kim because again I'm not big fan of them they impact the wild life I'm sure you
put it 10 ft away from the water but still if it rains it's going to go into the weather lands and that's going to impact the W Wild Life the sea life and for me that's that's a big so my question is any have you heard anything about changing to another way to stay
away from the from chemicals there's definitely efforts made to limit the chemicals with mechanical and other measures um I don't think there's ever I think it's we're kind of in the way that is the most effective um as it's been happening for so long but you did bring up a good
point there about the rain um is there are a lot of restrictions for weather wind rain um they they have the applicator ready to go for more days than what it actually takes to account for um weather so they'll cancel days
and reschedule for they have them on the book for more days than what's actually needed um but yeah there's no there's no real for the actual Road bed itself there's no feasible um alternative no thank you for for
answering that I just turn it there and maybe if you can carry the message that if it was for me I wouldn't approve it but I know what it is what it is and we need the train with the community needs it but at the same time if we can look for ways to make it so we don't impact generations to come and we can protect
the wildlife and that that would be huge as well yeah and just add to that I just to um add I know the state does a lot of a lot of um research with all these herbicides and they make the the approved list doing after doing all
kinds of studies absorption rates and um not not letting it they know exactly how far is going to spread and they've studied water Downstream of where this is applied so for these to get approved it does go through a good process so
makes me feel a little better at least absolutely um any questions absolutely is there certain weather requirements before you actually do spray any of the things like just the wind minimize actually the spreading of
the chemicals yeah okay yeah rain and wind uh I don't know exactly what the regulations say but that's on the applicator they're licensed with the state of Massachusetts so they have to follow all those regulations okay yeah I
know anything else no all right um so let's take two uh so I'd like to call for a negative determination that this will not impact um the area I'll make a motion for negative determination of
applicability second second all in favor I I okay and all right thank you uh thank you very much um could we also and I don't know if it's too late but we are seeking
a positive 2A determination as well um so the work that you're doing is Def is covered under the request for deter I'm not really sure what you're asking for here or why you're asking for that so from this part yeah I mean typically
your commission just gave a negative2 last go around we are seeking a positive 2A to confirm the boundaries of maps and so that um so that's not something that we can do we're not certified to go out there and do that so that's so I can't I
can't defini say if that can be done by our commission um and if it has been done I'm not sure if who had a license to go out there and work on those things um the mths that you provided are extreme are extensive and what you're
doing is approved by multiple agencies to be able to do so but the that part of it walking down the site and actually doing something like that is not something that we can do gotcha okay so I'm not exactly sure if we could even
give you a positive determination on that because we can't actually physically go see it okay so I mean we can talk off offline and and and figure this out if how that can go how we can get that done but that's not something
that we can actually do because we're not certified to be out there right okay yeah well happy with the negative2 um thank you um but yeah we'll get this um over to you and um thank you very much for your
time you too so that was to all right so uh next up uh is a notice of intent D file number 061 083 I'm not it's not here on my
um uh on my agenda but I know you guys have been issued a d file number if you wouldn't mind referencing that when you get up uh this is for the Inon Street Frederick's Park project um the supplemental borings and verification of resource [Music]
areas good evening commission my name is El Baker open space environmental planner with the um Rivier office of planning and Community Development just one more when I just want to sorry open up the hearing uh do you want me to repeat
myself no not at all it's this project uh Bennington Street Frederick's Park is a resiliency and recreational project it's in partnership with the city of Boston and Rivier um and it's funded by the municipal vulnerability
preparedness Grant um VHB Consulting is here to discuss our request our notice of intent for specifically the borings uh to conduct additional site investigations to inform
our design as we move forward as well as requesting uh Wetland delineation approval and I'm going to turn it over to Taylor Donovan from VHB thank you thank you very much yeah yeah she's going to have a
presentation there we go right uh thank you El so for the record my name is Taylor Donovan I'm an environmental scientist with vhp um we are here tonight to uh for the resilient Bennington Street and Frederick's parked uh project this is for geotechnical investigations and Wetland resource area
boundary confirmation um we did receive a d file number today and that number is uh 061-0293 lined in red here um this is again the uh R portion of the the site that is associated with the larger resilient Bennington Street and Frederick's Park
project um which is a joint effort between the cities of Boston and Rivier um and so we've been collo colloquially excuse me referring to this as Frederick's Park but it is the parcel at 15 everard Street and includes a portion of benington
Street and so the proposed work in the notice of intent again includes geot technical investigations I do want to correct that in the notice of intent we uh called out six borings there are seven actually proposed um so and this markup here tried to make it a little easier for you all to see um I guess
first that yellow line is the municipal boundary between Boston and Rivier um and then the dots that are shown in Black are the proposed boring locations and then we did um come up with alternative borings locations which are shown in purple um and this is just you
know for the the commission's um just in case you know we go out in the field and they determine that they can't um drill at the um initially proposed locations we've already identified alternative locations that correspond generally um you know they're they're marked with an A on the plan set so we have uh boring
110 and 110a um so those are not we're not proposing 14 borings we're only proposing seven but we did want to present these alternate locations to you up front just in case um field conditions may may dictate different U again locations than than initially proposed
um and as part of the noi as well we are requesting confirmation of resource area boundaries in the area and this is just to you know help with permitting later on um as the project progresses into later phases so we've already had the resource areas um ironed out with the commission and it'll help streamline
permitting efforts hopefully um so in this area we do have Inland Bank associated with sales Creek and that's on the leand side of the screen um and west of Bennington Street near The Pump Station um and then Associated River Riverfront area with sales Creek um because sales Creek then goes through
the tide gate into the Bell Isle uh Inlet the riverfront area does cut off there and we've provided explanation in The Narrative of um how we came to that determination of the riverfront area cutting off there um but then as we continue along the Bell Isle Inlet we do have salt marsh um which is that dashed
Blue Line you can see continuing uh from approximately Bennington street down to the south of the park um and then Bell Isle Inlet is also regulated as um tidal area tidal flat um we have the 100ft
buffer zone to salt marsh shown in the the uh black line there um extending across the park here and then we do have land subject to Coastal storm Flowage which is this dotted hatch um and then under the uh as a local jurisdictional area there is the 100t buffer zone to
land subject to Coastal storm Flowage shown in the black dashed areas um so these are the first set of borings um and then if I pan over to the east a little a little bit we do have uh the salt marsh area continuing along the inlet again in that Dash Blue Line um
and then an area of bordering vegetated Wetland which is outlined in this pink uh line here with the flags um called out and it's a little hard to see at this high level but hopefully a little bit easier for you on the plans that were provided um and again the 100 foot buffer zone to
BBW we have land subject Coastal storm Flowage and the 100 foot buffer zone to land subject to Coastal storm Flowage here um I believe those are all the resource areas I wanted to call out for your attention and I'll just mention that with the bordering vegetated
Wetland here um the salt marsh that we're showing per the the definition in the wetlands protection act regulations um salt marsh extends to the high tide line in this area the high tide line has been determined to be 6.82 feet navd88 um so that is where the extent of salt
marsh stops and we were able to determine through um surveyed elevations that there's actually a burm that separates the salt Mar um in this area to the south of the apartment complex um and then where that uh Wetland feature starts on the North side so that's um how we came to the
determination of whether or not it was you know the salmer extending up into that area or if it is jurisdictional as bordering vegetated Wetland so these are just zoomed in um versions of the plan so happy to go back to these slides if we would like to
discuss anything else but um again seeking confirmation of these resource area boundaries as depicted um it's for seven geotechnical borings within previously developed areas several of which are exempt under the wetlands protection act um and just
conservatively estimating 25 square feet of temporary impact to land subject to Coastal storm Flowage for these uh borings and 30 squ fet of potential temporary impact to the 100 foot buffer zones uh so there's no permanent impacts associated with the borings um any
temporary impacts will be mitigated um and they're in previously Disturbed areas uh erosion controls will be installed and um yeah areas will be backfilled and restored after completion of work so that's what we have for you today but happy to answer any questions I know we
will be expecting another hearing with you uh yes uh so we do have a site walk down to confirm the resource area scheduled for March 24th uh it's already been set up uh but the other thing the only
question I I guess I have is how large is the boring equipment that you're going to be using there are some areas where you get very close to even that bmed area um so what are your plans how large is the equipment that you're using what kind of lay down stuff are you using you're going to be putting down
like um plywood or something like that just to mitigate the impact as you get closer to those areas the ones in the middle of the field are are a little easier to mitigate than the ones that get close yeah so I don't want to speak to contractor means and methods because we
don't have those specifics from them yet um but the borings are really only and conservatively estimated at 5 square feet per boring so they are relatively small um and I think we'd be happy to work with the commission if there were sensitive areas you would you would like to see um we could try to work I don't
want to speak again for the contractor but um very conscious of we we don't want to be disturbing the resource areas anymore than we need to um and knowing that the site does get very very wet if needed we we would obviously aim for a dry day and hopefully a stretch of dry days so that it's not too swampy out
there but um we would use matting if needed and L I don't know if you want to add anything but and you and you also plan on putting it back and mitigating as much as you can correct um after the fact but I I we just drilled and did borings for a geothermal system and the
rigs were enormous I didn't know how large of a rig you guys were going to the company was going to be bringing in so I just would be concerned the closer you get to those uh Marsh areas just kind of be mindful of that I mean you're probably taking what a 4 in or 5 in boring just to see what kind of
substrate you're looking at that seems that seems about right um any other questions no like I said we are going to have to continue this until the next meeting uh Wilson anything over there no just making sure missed you last
time thank you you're very welcome no thank you very much for making this presentation to us streamline the process next time around thank you so last up we have this is DP file number
061 0788 this is in regards to 6 and 14 Beverly Street now we had a correspondents come in from the mass D and this was a project that previously came up in front of the commission and we gave a no determination uh in our
vote and it was appeal and the D issued an order to have it uh happen they issued an noi with a superseding order and what this basically States is they are asking us if we would like for
it to be in the D's purview let them keep keep the project it is very complex it's in a very low lineing area and it has not really gained traction as contractors have been reluctant to take a stab at it
but somebody is willing to do so and they do have the right to build there but in my opinion I would like to let this stay with the D they have more resources more resources sources than we do couldn't get that one out and what I
feel is that this would be best served if it were to stay with them so I'd like to open up for your thoughts about this or if you would like it to be remanded to the Rev Conservation Commission chair just wanted to just ask a quick question this just from my jog in my own memory
was the one that all the neighbors came they were very upset about because it's in such a low-lying area and that's where all the water was being collected in that area and we ended up not voting for it because the neighbors thought that by building there it would cause the water to go to their properties
right and the current project that they're proposing is now on pilings uh no flow through foundations and it also has um two paved driveways that are going to be potentially associated with it hasn't been approved yet but um yes
that is the project where in Oak Island where it was not very well received yes so what what you're I just want to confirm so what you're asking is is that we wouldn't have anything to do with it it would be up to mass DP to handle it or would it ever come back to us what I'm ask what I'm asking is that we do
not remand this to the riv Conservation Commission and let the D which has much more resources available to them to make a better determination about this project thank you I just want to confirm any
other questions or comments no I I would just say to the rest of the commission for those that may not have been on the commission when we had this um this property was I would say the most contested of the neighbors
that came here that were very very upset about this property being done um so if as the chair said Mass D would give more options for dealing with this my recommendation as having previously seen what the how the neighbors felt I would
say to give it to mass DP if uh that's possible that's just my two cents it's also a parcel of property that is one of the few open Parcels of property over there where you have a lot of water storage it gets inundated with water pretty heavily in that area I'm not sure
if you've driven by a Joe and seen that uh property this piece of property has come be in my time at least five five various times with different proposals none of them uh was capable of handling
the problems in that area yeah and I gladly hand it over to the DP okay the the complexities of a project that is going to be built on this parcel of land is quite extensive and I I want to make sure that it is handled properly and not to say that we wouldn't handle it
properly but we don't have the resources that they do so uh at this time I'd like to call for a motion to let the D handle this and not remand it back to the commission I'll make a motion to let the D handle this and not remand it back to
the commission second all in favor I I excellent um thank you very much and we'll be following up to the D with a letter stating that fact uh so at this time I don't have any
enforcement on the docket we did have a few site visits this weekend 61 McKinley Street and 153 winther Parkway um the 61 the 1 153 was supposed to be on the agenda tonight and pulled their uh
submission from us that's why we did not see them today uh we just handled the correspondence from the Massachusetts D in regards to Beverly Street uh at this time I'd like to open up to any open discussion any Commissioners might
have just want to say Welcome to our new edition and just to let you know there's a possibility at the next meeting we have that someone will not be arrested just just know that's not a not a common thing so thank you very much enjoy enjoy
this commission where good things happen thank you I'm looking forward to um less less Lively of a meeting for you next time and for all of us and I do apologize for having to uh pause the meeting for a moment but thank you for
bearing with me I appreciate that um at this time I'd like to call for a motion to adjourn I'll make a motion to adjourn second second all in favor hi hi thank you e