2/5/2004 CONSERVATION COMMISSION Minutes

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administratively or do they have to file an RDA. Mike thinks there should be some revegetation by the coastal bank, and he asked if they will be able to get the machinery to the work area without tearing up other areas. Motion rade, seconded and unanimously carried to request that the applicant file an RDA for this project. 6. candidates for Conservation commission. .hack said he called Lloyd Allen, got his tape only and left a message on the tape that the Commission would like him to be a full commissioner. He hasn't heard back from him. He also called .Jeffrey cross and said the members thought Mir. Allen had the most experience in this area and had asked him to be a full Commissioner, but they hoped he would like to join as an Associate. Mir. Cross said he would think about it. . lnvasiv s. Michael said today he attended a conference on controlling in asives, and one woman ask why Conversation's regulations made it so difficult for therm to go ahead and do it in the resource areas. Mike said he realized that she had a point. He suggested that perhaps vire could develop a regulation that if someone wanted to remove some in asives and replace them with native shrubs, they could get permission to do so administratively by writing a letter explaining what they want to do. This would apply to buffer zones as well as resource areas. He would consider it to'be a minor activity impact-wise. Bob said the problem is that beneficial or not, we are constrained ander the lair: and anything in the resource area has to have a Notice of Intent. He said some of the so- called minor activities in the buffer zone might qualify under the Act to be handled this way, but anything on the coastal bank requires an Nod. He said there are gays to make an NO[ less expensive for minor activities like this. New si eae: 1. collapse of Dike/Flume at Quashnet Bogs. Bob said this is just before the golf course. He shored a photo of it, which he said doe n#t do it justice. He and Lori went out to see it last Tuesday and again today when the situation was considerably worse. He said it could have started with a small muskrat hole. He, Peggy, Lori} Brian Handy, Stere Hurley, and some Air Force people met there today. Mr. Handy lowered the water somewhat, so the water is no longer bypassing the flume and eroding the area, and he will lay some gravel next week as a temporary measure. The long, heavy-duty steel flume structure is tilted up. The area will have to be revegetated to stabilize it. Steve Hurley is concerned that quite a bit of sand has moved downstream into the Quashnet Malley golf course area where it is threatening wildlife species habitat, so we'll have to get the golf course to allow us to recapture that sediment. When asked who will cover-the cost, Bob said that under normal circumstances such an event would be considered an agricultural emergency, for which Mir. Handy: as operator of the bogs, would be responsible. Bob gave Mir. Handy our sand bags for temporary use, and Mir. Handy said he will get some machinery there next week to plug it up. 2