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Board - Committee - Commission - Council:
Conservation Commission Oil NOV —8 PM I: 17
Date: 2017-04-12 Time: 7:00 PM
Building: Reading Town Hall Location: Select Board Meeting Room
Address: 16 Lowell Street Session: Open Session
Purpose: Public Meeting Version: Final
Attendees: Members - Present:
Rebecca Longley, Chair Annika Scanlon Vice Chair, Harry Curtis; Michael
Flynn; Al Couillard; David Pinette; Chuck Tirone, Conservation Administrator
Members - Not Present:
Others Present:
Marlene Wolfe
Matt Brown
Joe Jammallo
Donna Smith
Rosemary Dennehy .
Bill Hanson
Paul Cheney
Christine Cheney
John Tilton
Jackie Welch
Minutes Respectfully Submitted By: Chuck Tirone
Topics of Discussion: -
Ms. Longley caged meeting to order at 7:00 pm
NOI 270-0680, 1260-1264 Main Street,Mass Equity
The Commission discussed new plans handed out at the meeting for 1260-1264 Main Street and
also discussed the site visit to review the wetland flag locations. On the site visit flags were
moved upslope and the new plans reflected these revisions.The plans also show the house
moving forward the driveway reduced and the roadway was also reduced in size.New test pits
were completed and mounding calculations show no sign of breakout. The name of the
subdivision road is Veterans Way. The draft easement language was not ready for this meeting
and will be ready on Thursday for the Commission to review. Environmental signs were
requested on the lots abutting the wetland to educate and prevent yard waste dumping. Mr. Flynn
spoke out against closing the hearing so review of the new material including the easement
language can be completed.
Motion to continue by Mr. Flynn; second by Mr. Pinette. Vote 6-0-0
General Permit 270-0351 and 270-0638,Engineering Dept.
The Engineering Department presented a project to address some of the flooding issues at the
end of West Street by the Meadowbrook Golf Club. Routine work is allowed under a general
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permit to roads and sewer lines with notice to the Conservation Commission.This project is
contained in the road right-of-way and will include erosion control and dewatering BMP with
any discharged outside of the hundred foot buffer zone.No new flow will be added to the
existing culvert they are just intercepting the water higher up the street and relaying it back into
the culvert underneath the road. West Street by the golf course is crowned to the east and super
elevated by design it pushes sheet flows towards the storm drain in this area.The engineering
department designed double catch basins in this area to handle the water. Leaching catch basins
will be installed at the midpoint of the hill and if the high ground water allows additional
leaching catch basin will be used at the base of the hill. This project is one phase of a duel prong
solutions to address flooding problems in this area.The next phase may include a dredging
project to remove years of sediment that backup the stream during heavy rain events. The
Commission agreed this work fits the strict guidelines of the General Permit and approved the
project.
Motion to continue by Mr. Flynn; second by Mr. Pinette.Vote 6-0-0
RDA 2017-2 Roadway Maintenance Project DPW
Town Engineer Ryan Percival submitted plans showing street they intend to preform
maintenance on.The projects include three maintenance choices overlay, applying a bituminous
concrete surface over the existing road,mill and overlay, also known as cold plaining where you
grind off the existing travel way surface then applying bituminous concrete over the remaining
under-laying surface and reclamation, scarifying and pulverizing in-place the asphalt pavement
and underlying material,mix,re-grade and compact receiving two layers of bituminous concrete
top course.The work on various streets in town shown on the plan will start in late June.Erosion
BMP's will be installed after a joint conservation and engineering drive-by window survey of all
the proposed streets are completed.As a Final step engineering will clean up sediment in the
catch basins with a vactor truck and the tree row the will be loaned and seeded within two weeks
of the completion of each street
Motion to continue by Mr. Flynn; second by Mr. Couillard.Vote 6-0-0
NOI 270-0682 45 Causeway Road
Joe Jammallo presented the project for the Reading Municipal light department the power lines
through a survey found to be out of line and they have an application to remove one pole and
reinstall it is 7 feet over from the original pole.The new pole at 45 Causeway Road,pole 503-6
approximately Hoot east of the BV W as shown on the plan.A two foot diameter hole will be
drilled with a solid stem auger 9-12 feet deep 7 feet west of the original hole. RMLD needed to
meet two field goals go achieve the new NEC Safety Code standards,make sure wires are away
from other wires on the site and have the poles in a straight line. This pole failed structurally as
discovered through a resistograph that measures the section properties, as well as wood fiber
density and strength.Excess spoils will be removed from site.
Motion to close and issue by Mr. Flynn; second by Mr. Curtis.Vote 6-0-0
RDA 2017-1 Lot B,0 Border Road
pictures displayed of the highway layout,Ariel of 1974 and the USGS Map.The owners clear the
lot of overgrown vegetation without a permit. A neighbor called to complain about the noise and
cutting over the weekend,a stop work order was verbally issued.The owners filed a permit to
continue to remove the vegetation and relocate the stream so it runs around the perimeter of the
property instead of through the center. The owners says that was its historic location but was
moved when the Reading DPW install the pump station across the street and needed parking for
the project on border road.The stream also was altered when Rt. 93 was built in the 50's
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according to the owners. The Commission requested the administrator go to the site and count
the cut trees and look at the water course to see its condition
Motion to continue by Mr. Flynn; second by Mr. Curtis.Vote 6-0-0
National Grid Forest Street project courtesy notice was approved.
The emergency permit for the Reading DPW tree removal on Pond Meadow Drive.was
approved.
The site visit 44 Roma Lane with DEP's Mike Abell and Oxbow Associates was discussed.
Motion to adjourn by Mr. Pinette; second by Mr. Curtis.Vote 6-0-0
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