Change Summary

On Aug 20, 2020 5:25 PM EDT Cheryl D. Rose changed a meeting of Conservation Commission as follows:

• Meeting agenda changed from

  CONSERVATION COMMISSION
  PUBLIC HEARING & REGULAR MONTHLY MEETING
  ** VIA ZOOM **
  August 25, 2020
  7:00 P.M.
  “Pursuant to Governor Baker’s March 12, 2020 Order Suspending Certain Provisions of the Open Meeting Law, G.L. c. 30A, §20, and the Governor’s March 15, 2020 Order imposing strict limitation on the number of people that may gather in one place, this meeting of the Conservation Commission will be conducted via remote participation. No in-person attendance of members of the public will be permitted, but every effort will be made to ensure that the public can adequately access the open session portion of the proceedings in real-time, via technological means.”
  
  To Join Zoom Meeting
  https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89046878053?pwd=bkJONDlNUVlXdzBUYTJNSU5XZkVQdz09
  Meeting ID: 890 4687 8053
  Passcode: 947981
  One tap mobile: +16465588656,,89046878053#,,,,,,0#,,947981# 
  
  
  ROLL CALL: 
  Cheryl Rose, Dom Sacco, Bob Bishop, Henry Rose, Esther Balardini, Ed Gero, John Burnham
  
  PUBLIC HEARING: 
  DEP file#140-0185- 675 Old Windsor Rd – Request for Certificate of Compliance – Dennis Tinker- [site visit 8/13 EBalardini, HRose]  
  DEP file#140-0186-193 Mountain Dr Pittsfield – Request for Certificate of Compliance -Karen Zink – [site visit 8/20 Dsacco, HRose, EBalardini,RBishop]
  RDA - Byron Weston No1 Dam/Crane & Co.- - Michael Higgins.vegetation removal- site visit 6/3/2020 [CRose, HRose, EBalardini, DSacco]. 
  RDA - CSX veg management.Stephen Herzog, Senior Ecologist, Project Manager 508-517-6470 - You are approving where they have marked the various spray zones. So, if a ten foot spray zone, the wetlands should be ten feet away. No exemption per se, they have to comply with the Rights of Way management regulations. So the spraying is done under another set of regulations, different agency, but the regulations require the boundaries to be approved by the commission....five year determination .
  Article 20190827.2 - 126 Reservoir Rd – Restoration Plan – James Callahan/SK Designs
  190 Hubbard Ave – Ray Robert – [9/24/2019 EO issued] re-issue EO to require NOI ?
  
  REGULAR MONTHLY MEETING:
  Minutes: July 28, 2020 
  135 Hemlock Hill – Robert Collins (contractor) drain pipes, erosion control - Crose,HRose,EGero,RBishop. – from Robert Collins: Letter and photos. 8/10 email:”The washed out trenches over hillside have been filled in with 6 to 9 inch trap rock and the the area grade raised with stone so any discharge from drain pipes will be filtered through stone and fabric prior to reaching brook. No soils were disturbed during process. Filtration fabric put down and the stone on top.”  Travis Orsie – erosion controls for deck footing excavation [site visit 8/13 HRose, ]
  Snow Disposal in Dalton – e.g. top of Hemlock Hill -curb cuts/drainage/erosion issues
  62 Tower Rd concern – John Roughly
  
  Old Business: 
  Elect Vice-Chair
  
  Misc.:
  Any received correspondence 
  other
  
  ** Next Scheduled Meeting: Tuesday, September 22, 2020 @ 7pm **
  
  Ongoing:
  Article 09-01-18  - 62 Tower Rd –  inspect erosion controls before construction/COC
  DEP File# 140-0182 NOI Eversource Line 393 Structure&Insulator Replacement/COC
  Article 20190827.2 – EO -126 Reservoir Rd – updated plan? inspect plantings for establishment -spring 2020(2 growing seasons)
  Victoria Villa – inspect dumping site restoration spring2020
  30 Main St (Crane) – follow up spring2020 vegetation regrowth after large tree limb removal
  Article 20190924.1 – RDA Dalton Solar, LLC -Michael Gagnon, Milone & MacBroom, Inc. - preconstruction (gravel processing site)
  Article 20190924.2 - 190 Hubbard Ave – Enforcement Order – (restoration plan)
  201 Dalton Division Rd – will want to have site visit for over-sized garage, spring 2020
  DEP File #WE 140-0188 – 6 Park Terrace – new concrete pad for mobile home – COC/ stabilization of soils, naturalization at rear Michael Deep/Bryan Millard

  to

  CONSERVATION COMMISSION
  PUBLIC HEARING & REGULAR MONTHLY MEETING
  ** VIA ZOOM **
  August 25, 2020
  7:00 P.M.
  “Pursuant to Governor Baker’s March 12, 2020 Order Suspending Certain Provisions of the Open Meeting Law, G.L. c. 30A, §20, and the Governor’s March 15, 2020 Order imposing strict limitation on the number of people that may gather in one place, this meeting of the Conservation Commission will be conducted via remote participation. No in-person attendance of members of the public will be permitted, but every effort will be made to ensure that the public can adequately access the open session portion of the proceedings in real-time, via technological means.”
  
  To Join Zoom Meeting
  https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89046878053?pwd=bkJONDlNUVlXdzBUYTJNSU5XZkVQdz09
  Meeting ID: 890 4687 8053
  Passcode: 947981
  One tap mobile: +16465588656,,89046878053#,,,,,,0#,,947981# 
  
  
  ROLL CALL: 
  Cheryl Rose, Dom Sacco, Bob Bishop, Henry Rose, Esther Balardini, Ed Gero, John Burnham
  
  PUBLIC HEARING: 
  DEP file#140-0185- 675 Old Windsor Rd – Request for Certificate of Compliance – Dennis Tinker- [site visit 8/13 EBalardini, HRose]  
  DEP file#140-0186-193 Mountain Dr Pittsfield – Request for Certificate of Compliance -Karen Zink – [site visit 8/20 Dsacco, HRose, EGero]
  RDA - Byron Weston No1 Dam/Crane & Co.- - Michael Higgins.vegetation removal- site visit 6/3/2020 [CRose, HRose, EBalardini, DSacco]. 
  RDA - CSX veg management.Stephen Herzog, Senior Ecologist, Project Manager 508-517-6470 - You are approving where they have marked the various spray zones. So, if a ten foot spray zone, the wetlands should be ten feet away. No exemption per se, they have to comply with the Rights of Way management regulations. So the spraying is done under another set of regulations, different agency, but the regulations require the boundaries to be approved by the commission....five year determination .
  Article 20190827.2 - 126 Reservoir Rd – Restoration Plan – James Callahan/SK Designs
  190 Hubbard Ave – Ray Robert – [9/24/2019 EO issued] re-issue EO to require NOI ?
  
  REGULAR MONTHLY MEETING:
  Minutes: July 28, 2020 
  135 Hemlock Hill – Robert Collins (contractor) drain pipes, erosion control - Crose,HRose,EGero,RBishop. – from Robert Collins: Letter and photos. 8/10 email:”The washed out trenches over hillside have been filled in with 6 to 9 inch trap rock and the the area grade raised with stone so any discharge from drain pipes will be filtered through stone and fabric prior to reaching brook. No soils were disturbed during process. Filtration fabric put down and the stone on top.”  Travis Orsie – erosion controls for deck footing excavation [site visit 8/13 HRose, ]
  Snow Disposal in Dalton – e.g. top of Hemlock Hill -curb cuts/drainage/erosion issues
  62 Tower Rd concern – John Roughly
  
  Old Business: 
  Elect Vice-Chair
  
  Misc.:
  Any received correspondence 
  other
  
  ** Next Scheduled Meeting: Tuesday, September 22, 2020 @ 7pm **
  
  Ongoing:
  Article 09-01-18  - 62 Tower Rd –  inspect erosion controls before construction/COC
  DEP File# 140-0182 NOI Eversource Line 393 Structure&Insulator Replacement/COC
  Article 20190827.2 – EO -126 Reservoir Rd – updated plan? inspect plantings for establishment -spring 2020(2 growing seasons)
  Victoria Villa – inspect dumping site restoration spring2020
  30 Main St (Crane) – follow up spring2020 vegetation regrowth after large tree limb removal
  Article 20190924.1 – RDA Dalton Solar, LLC -Michael Gagnon, Milone & MacBroom, Inc. - preconstruction (gravel processing site)
  Article 20190924.2 - 190 Hubbard Ave – Enforcement Order – (restoration plan)
  201 Dalton Division Rd – will want to have site visit for over-sized garage, spring 2020
  DEP File #WE 140-0188 – 6 Park Terrace – new concrete pad for mobile home – COC/ stabilization of soils, naturalization at rear Michael Deep/Bryan Millard

So that the meeting notice now reads:

Information for Meeting of Conservation Commission
Tuesday Aug 25, 2020 7:00 PM EDT

CONSERVATION COMMISSION
PUBLIC HEARING & REGULAR MONTHLY MEETING
** VIA ZOOM **
August 25, 2020
7:00 P.M.
“Pursuant to Governor Baker’s March 12, 2020 Order Suspending Certain Provisions of the Open Meeting Law, G.L. c. 30A, §20, and the Governor’s March 15, 2020 Order imposing strict limitation on the number of people that may gather in one place, this meeting of the Conservation Commission will be conducted via remote participation. No in-person attendance of members of the public will be permitted, but every effort will be made to ensure that the public can adequately access the open session portion of the proceedings in real-time, via technological means.”

To Join Zoom Meeting
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89046878053?pwd=bkJONDlNUVlXdzBUYTJNSU5XZkVQdz09
Meeting ID: 890 4687 8053
Passcode: 947981
One tap mobile: +16465588656,,89046878053#,,,,,,0#,,947981# 


ROLL CALL: 
Cheryl Rose, Dom Sacco, Bob Bishop, Henry Rose, Esther Balardini, Ed Gero, John Burnham

PUBLIC HEARING: 
DEP file#140-0185- 675 Old Windsor Rd – Request for Certificate of Compliance – Dennis Tinker- [site visit 8/13 EBalardini, HRose]  
DEP file#140-0186-193 Mountain Dr Pittsfield – Request for Certificate of Compliance -Karen Zink – [site visit 8/20 Dsacco, HRose, EGero]
RDA - Byron Weston No1 Dam/Crane & Co.- - Michael Higgins.vegetation removal- site visit 6/3/2020 [CRose, HRose, EBalardini, DSacco]. 
RDA - CSX veg management.Stephen Herzog, Senior Ecologist, Project Manager 508-517-6470 - You are approving where they have marked the various spray zones. So, if a ten foot spray zone, the wetlands should be ten feet away. No exemption per se, they have to comply with the Rights of Way management regulations. So the spraying is done under another set of regulations, different agency, but the regulations require the boundaries to be approved by the commission....five year determination .
Article 20190827.2 - 126 Reservoir Rd – Restoration Plan – James Callahan/SK Designs
190 Hubbard Ave – Ray Robert – [9/24/2019 EO issued] re-issue EO to require NOI ?

REGULAR MONTHLY MEETING:
Dalton Community Cleanup – The Pines – Taylor Staubach
Minutes: July 28, 2020 
135 Hemlock Hill – Robert Collins (contractor) drain pipes, erosion control - Crose,HRose,EGero,RBishop. – from Robert Collins: Letter and photos. 8/10 email:”The washed out trenches over hillside have been filled in with 6 to 9 inch trap rock and the the area grade raised with stone so any discharge from drain pipes will be filtered through stone and fabric prior to reaching brook. No soils were disturbed during process. Filtration fabric put down and the stone on top.”  Travis Orsie – erosion controls for deck footing excavation [site visit 8/13 HRose, ]
Snow Disposal in Dalton – e.g. top of Hemlock Hill -curb cuts/drainage/erosion issues
62 Tower Rd concern – John Roughly

Old Business: 
Elect Vice-Chair

Misc.:
Any received correspondence 
other

** Next Scheduled Meeting: Tuesday, September 22, 2020 @ 7pm **

Ongoing:
Article 09-01-18  - 62 Tower Rd –  inspect erosion controls before construction/COC
DEP File# 140-0182 NOI Eversource Line 393 Structure&Insulator Replacement/COC
Article 20190827.2 – EO -126 Reservoir Rd – updated plan? inspect plantings for establishment -spring 2020(2 growing seasons)
Victoria Villa – inspect dumping site restoration spring2020
30 Main St (Crane) – follow up spring2020 vegetation regrowth after large tree limb removal
Article 20190924.1 – RDA Dalton Solar, LLC -Michael Gagnon, Milone & MacBroom, Inc. - preconstruction (gravel processing site)
Article 20190924.2 - 190 Hubbard Ave – Enforcement Order – (restoration plan)
201 Dalton Division Rd – will want to have site visit for over-sized garage, spring 2020
DEP File #WE 140-0188 – 6 Park Terrace – new concrete pad for mobile home – COC/ stabilization of soils, naturalization at rear Michael Deep/Bryan Millard