Information for Meeting of Conservation Commission
Tuesday June 22, 2021 7:00 PM EDT

CONSERVATION COMMISSION
PUBLIC HEARING & REGULAR MONTHLY MEETING
** VIA ZOOM **
June 22, 2021
7:00 P.M.

This meeting of the Conservation Commission will be conducted via remote participation. Members of the public will be permitted, and the meeting will be recorded.

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RECORD THE MEETING

ROLL CALL: 
Members:Cheryl Rose, Dom Sacco, Bob Bishop, Henry Rose, Esther Balardini, Ed Gero, John Burnham
Assoc. Members: Asmara Qamar

PUBLIC HEARING: 
previous VOTE - To allow the Chair of the Conservation Commission to sign on behalf of the Conservation Commissioners when meetings are held via video conference. The Commissioners recognize and accept the provisions of M.G.L. c.110G regarding electronic signatures and that its members will henceforth execute documents either with electronic signatures or with wet ink signatures and that both will carry the same legal weight and effect. Only those Commissioners present at the meeting and who vote in favor will have their names so signed. Such electronically signed documents will include a statement that :  The signatures here are made in accordance with M.G.L. c.110G and pursuant to the board’s electronic signature authorization vote recorded on October 2, 2020 in BOOK 6733, PAGE 235 at the Middle Berkshire Registry of Deeds.
NOI - Old Mill Trail – DEP File# 140-0190 Berkshire Natural Resources/Emily Stockman  - continued from previous month, waiting for NHESP determination.  Include ConCom acknowledgement letter w OOC. [site visit 4/21 CRose, HRose, EBalardini, EGero w/ Emily Stockman] – plans to create a 'destination spot' at terminus of ADA trail.
SMA NOI Extension Request SMA File# 140-01SM – 679 Grange Hall Rd- Margaret Bacon
SMA NOI SMA File# 140-20210622 – 663 Grange Hall Rd proposed house construction– Margaret Bacon.  original issued to M Valenti 6/26/2020.
NOI – Crane Currency Pioneer Mill – DEP File# 140-191- proposed parking and driveway improvements and related site work. 310 CMR 10.04 - Historic Mill Complex means the mill complexes in, but not limited to, Holyoke, Taunton, Fitchburg, Haverhill, Methuen, and Medford in existence prior to 1946 and situated landward of the waterside facade of a retaining wall, building, sluiceway, or other structure existing on August 7, 1996. An historic mill complex also means any historic mill included on the Massachusetts Register of Historic Places. An historic mill complex includes only the footprint of the area that is or was occupied by interrelated buildings (manufacturing buildings, housing, utilities, parking areas, and driveways) constructed before and existing after 1946, used for any type of manufacturing or mechanical processing and including associated structures to provide water for processing, to generate water power, or for water transportation. 
190 Hubbard Ave – site visits – 6/3 & 6/21/2021 – status report - violation and site visit 5/17 [CRose, JBurnham, BBishop, HRose, Aqamar]. Plan for follow-up visit first week in June

REGULAR MONTHLY MEETING:
Previous Minutes:-  May 2021
101 Hemlock Hill – RDA
? Town dumping of brush at end of EDemming reported by neighbor

Enforcement/municipal wetlands bylaw consideration – Isolated Wetlands, Non-disturbance?
Correspondence -   
Field Workshop with Emily Stockman – Saturday, June 5 9-12
follow-up on past issues – see below
Old Business: 
Elect Vice-Chair
Misc.:




** Next Scheduled Meeting: Tuesday,  July 27, 2021 @ 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 –  inspect plantings for establishment -spring 2021(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 – full implementation by  2021)
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
190 Hubbard Ave – status check – end of December work done