7/27/1989 CONSERVATION COMMISSION Minutes

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Meeting of ,duly � 1989 commissioners Present: GertrudeSimmons-, Joseph Burris, PatrIck Coffey, Elliot Rosenberg. Robert Sherman,, Agent, Florence Wall, Associate Member, Har ry esrosiere, Member candidate, and Robert Gray of Sabatiawere present also. The meeting was called to order at 7:10 p.m. 7:00 New Seabury Co. Limited Partnership, Sufflehead day, Request for Determination of Resource Boundaries. The Chairman advised New Seabury would be given a ten minute period for c ern-nent , Bob Gray, consultant, from abatia, ten minutes and ten minutes for comments from the public. Written tten comments on the project will be accepted until September 7. Depending upon how the presentation goes, i i most likely there will be another hearing. NORMAN# HAVES OF DSC: mfr purpose here tonight Is to address for the comm-ission a report done by Sabatia for the Connission with regards to two salient points on -the of lehead Bay project and those points addre sed an isolated .and subject to flooding and a coastal bank. I would like to strictly adhere to those two points because I only have ten minutes. With regards to the first and second points, we have assembled a project team and I would like to Cake the opportunity to introduce them. . We have Stan Humphries and Chris Reel from IEP that are going to be covering the coastal bank issue for us here tonight; we have Chuck Dill who will also be representing the coastal bank issue with ,SEP; peter Ogren and Debbie McCartney from Hayes Engineering who raid the overall Sufflehead Engineering plan. We also have some of the support engineering from New Seabury Co. here, My job tonight is to address the isolated land subject to boding in which there were three; two of them were not contested by the Coy rni s ion, erre of them was and it would be his particular lard subject to flooding right here (pointing to the plan) . A report was done by Hayes Engineering that delineated the watershed of that area and calculated the one— quarter acre potential for flooding in those areas, you have that in front of you. In addition to that, we from ECSC are submitting another report that details what is actualactualy going on in this isolated land subject to flooding. Basically, i t is a two acre basin; it has a large commUn-i ty of fresh water marsh fern5 in the center of it, centrally iocated. It has concentric rings of wenand plants around it and in the Sabatia report they thought it WOUld be classified xs, a