4/7/1994 CONSERVATION COMMISSION Minutes

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HAS HP E CONSERVATION COMMISSION Minutes of April 7, 1994 Commissioners Present.: Harry Desrosiers Susana Lannik, Frank Homeyer , John Johansen, Richard Rhodes , John Fitzsimmons . Robert Lopez, candidate for membership, was present also. .e Chairman called the meeting to order at 6:55 p.m. and appointed John Fitzsimmons and Richard Rhodes voting members. PUMIC CCHERU PERIOD: Bennett Gordon and Dick Demas came forward representing the Peninsula Council. Also present and introduced by Mr. Gordon were Frank Fantasia, Bob Gent of Lawrence Lynch, Reggie Higgins, and. Michael Grotke, their engineer. They have attempted to resolve their major road problems; the town will give no help. This is a comity effort to get their two main roads paved, wading Place Road. and Rock Landing don to the market place. They also plan to do down to the entrance on Great Neck Road. To do this they are going to assess all members and now have a commitment from those members for $1511,' oo, plus a maintenance ktty, Work must start promptly as the roads have become potholes and if not done within the next few weeks, they are afraid their finding may dissolve. Also, paving cannot be done in the sum-ertime dine to the traffic density. They are asking the Commission to allow thea to page these two roads, most is overlay, some rebuilding. The greatest concern is on wading Place with the isolated vernal pool. There will be no ne atIve impact on the environment. on the side of the road leading back to Great Neck, they plan to pint in just overlay which will be 11 feet wide. He showed photographs 1, 2 and . He had placed a 2 x 4 on the ground and the thickness of that, 1-1/2 inches, is the thickness of the overlay. All they have to do is light sweeping, They are not going out of the roadway or into the berms. They will come back with formal filings and do everything prop- erly. They are asking the Commission to allow them to overlay this area but knowing they are not going to go into the wetland or even into the berms. Looking at position 2, which is closer to Great Neck Road, they propose to overlay to the outer edge of the 2 x 4 and do nothing else until all of the formal filings are completed in the area of the vernal. pool. The third. area is up further, nearer to where the incline begins and there is in excess of 11 feet there now; runoff would be minimal. The problem is time; they would like to get Lawrence Lynch working on the road immediately. They will come in with the formal filing for the drainage work and will not do the work until the Commission is satisfied and theTOI is approved. They are asking permission to proceed with the paving of these two roads but not for any of the sensitive drainage work. Mr. Iesrosiers asked if the water at, present is held on the existing surface and only runs off at several places Two places. That means there is a slight dirt berm at the sides of the road? Mr. Gordon s'tated there is a major dirt berm of several inches to a foot in height throughout the rest of the area. The berm 1s man--made, mainly due to all. the leaves that obave accumulated over .t ie years plus the sand from sanding, 1