5/14/1980 CONSERVATION COMMISSION Minutes

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-2- Mr. Paparella: I hope he shows up. He promised me he would be here. Charles: Do you know what size stones he is going to use underground? He has two to four on top. Mr. Paparella: They are all the same, I think. Unless he would put bigger ones down the bottom. He claims, too, that you don't need any mortar. He puts this backing in and that is supposed to do the job for us. Charles: It allows the water to seep through. Pauline: Without eroding. Charles: So this would necessitate an excavation? Mr. Paparella: Yes. We just barely have room to get a piece of equipment in through my yard and then we can go along the shoreline. Charles: Would you be working from the backyards of each? Mr. Paparella: There are a couple of fences and we will have to take out a section of fence. Pauline: DEQE has asked us to review Regulation 27 and 30 on this. One request says that Chapter 91 may be required and the other one says: no, it doesn't have to be required. They all abut each other. It is a little confusing to me. Barbara: You still have to go to Army Corp. Pauline: Right. Charles: We will need a mapping of some sort from the Shellfish Warden on the shellfish in the area. You will have to work at low tide. Mr. Bonito's premise of going that 8 feet below the high water mark is that he requires that for stability of that banking. Mr. Paparella: Right. Charles: Is this all going to have to go over the bridge? Barbara: Mr. & Mrs. Conant and Mr. & Mrs. White are here to discuss that. There isn't anything we can really say about that as a Conservation comission but I think that you can talk to Mr. Paparella and the other three people involved about bringing this weight over that bridge because it is a lot of weight. Mrs. White: This is nothing that your Commission wants to hear about. Charles: There is one concern as far as I am concerned. We gave an emergency right to work for the bridge and for re-stressing of the side of the road as it approaches the bridge Our concern there was that we prevent anything from deteriorting on the road and causing a Infiltration to the existing channel there. I do believe that we must have some rights to say that if any damage is done to that road buttressing that we have allowed under an emer- gency procedure, whoever is responsible must fix it. Because if that is allowed to break, crack or whatnot and starts infiltrating in there, you are going to get a different kind of fill going into the channel. I think that whoever moves anything across that bridge if they damage the sides of the road by the stress on the road and the outward pressure or from the bridge itself, that they must realize that they will be held responsible for immediate re- pair.