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Conservation Commission 12/03/2025
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A developer comes back to the table asking to tighten work near a sensitive wetland, and we put field reality ahead of paper plans. After a site walk turned up broken silt fence and missing stakes, we dig into how retaining walls, stone backfill, and drainage details can reduce grading and erosion at the edge of a resource area—while making it clear that no new work starts until the controls are fully restored and the line is approved. The prior waiver of the 25-foot no-touch buffer under a comprehensive permit raises the big question: what truly protects a river when distance is no longer the primary tool?
We then shift gears to long-term stewardship. The management company’s role, condo trust obligations, and an upcoming open space restriction next to the river all point to durable protections beyond construction. We talk practical safeguards like PVC or wood posts to keep future yards out of wetland edges. Two single-family home filings move efficiently to closure with conditions, and a request for determination on concrete pads within the buffer earns a negative determination thanks to work staying on existing pavement and a defined limit of work.
Community voices anchor the back half. A neighbor reports a car engine block near the river and persistent trash along the bank. We cover jurisdiction limits and commit to coordinating with DPW for a workable, low-impact removal plan. Volunteer trail stewards get a shoutout for clearing brambles, picking up fishing line, and sharing nature insights at local ponds and forests. We also address recurring beaver issues—guided to state wildlife—and flag the spotted lanternfly’s arrival, urging residents to report sightings to protect trees, vineyards, and local ecosystems.
If you value clear-eyed oversight, practical conservation, and community partnership, tune in and share this episode with a neighbor. Subscribe, leave a review, and tell us: what’s the smartest way to safeguard wetlands when space is tight?
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Evening everyone. I'd like to call the December third meeting of the Conservation Commission to order. Uh please be advised all these meetings are recorded. Um Riley, please register.
SPEAKER_00:All public hearings and meetings are by the Rainham Conservation Commission on Wednesday, December 3rd, 2025, 5 30 p.m. Excuse me, the reign and veterans and water town hall. Don L. McKinnon meeting room 558 South Main Street reign of mass are related to filings and joint meetings. Joint hearings and or meetings on the Mass General Law. Chapter 131 in 40 as amended in the town of Rainham Lot and Protection by Law.
SPEAKER_07:Alright. Um first off is a continued notice of a minor modification for Lockwood LLC, uh, random riverwalk, DEP number 269-0965.
SPEAKER_05:Good evening. David Eastridge with Thorndike Development. Uh with me tonight is Brandon Carr from Depreet Engineering. Um where we left off last uh last meeting. Um the uh commission wanted to uh view a stakeout of certain buildings in the field uh relative to the wetlands and uh kind of get a better understanding, put their eyes on it as to uh what we are proposing uh relative to uh to what's out there. And uh so I hope believe that occurred uh this morning, and so at this point we're looking to kind of hear feedback from the commission.
SPEAKER_07:Okay, um so I went out there last Saturday to do the uh site walk. I wasn't able to find the stakes. Unfortunately, I stopped probably 50 feet short of where they started. Um I went out there this morning met with the uh on the site supervisor. Um I did find the stakes without I went out there and our first meeting we had, we talked about Have they were destroyed in certain areas? And the Have destroyed, and they were rewatering foundations over into the resource area. We had a conversation about this over the device this morning when you say the guys are there working on it or coming tomorrow. And nothing was mentioned.
SPEAKER_05:Um I did speak with uh with Kevin who you met this morning, and uh I know that they were out there um yesterday inspecting the perimeter and working areas that they viewed as a concern. I don't know that we had kind of uh specific areas flagged, it was more of a let's say uh general comment. So it sounds like we did not find the areas perhaps that you were uh that you had identified or um but uh I wasn't I didn't instruct him to kind of report on on what exactly was done over the you know since we spoke on Monday. Um but uh I did speak with them. They were out there on Tuesday in the in the weather. Um you know I know some of the specifics where they were restapling some of the silt fence to the bean poles. They were uh there were a couple pipes that were across the silt fence um in the staging area and the area of the stakes that they removed. So they did take s take some actions. I don't know exactly what uh uh what areas of concern there are, but we can certainly address them. And uh, you know, we'll we're totally fine not starting, you know, any work in this revised area until the line is fully approved by the commission.
SPEAKER_07:Okay. My second question, which is gonna be even more controversial, is when you went before the ZBA, did you specifically ask them to waive the 25-foot no touch?
SPEAKER_05:Uh that was waived as part of our permit, uh, and it remains a condition. Uh so we did not seek to modify that. So it's it was existed from the beginning and it still exists.
SPEAKER_07:Okay, because I mean then then in that case, why do we have a 25-foot no touch already established?
SPEAKER_05:Uh from the original from the original line of work. There is no 25-foot no touch established. I don't believe it's been shown on the plans. And then certainly not on that exhibit that I showed.
SPEAKER_07:I mean, you look at the original line of work, and here's the wetland line. Um, the wetlands in the um the wetland line is the green and the red was the original kind of brownish line.
SPEAKER_05:So that was the previously approved line. It wasn't relative to um the 25-foot no touch. So I'm I'm no, I'm crystal clear that that was waived. There's many places on the site where we weave in and out of that 25-foot uh no-touch throughout all of our phases, frankly. So it was um definitely something that was waived as part of our original permit. The modification that we got um covers just specific aspects. It doesn't restate kind of the seven pages of conditions that we have um within our permit. It basically says that the unit count has been modified and that this is the uh the new plan. Um it actually uh the vote was that the the change was let's say so uh insubstantial that um kind of a full plan set for the zoning board of appeals wasn't even required. We submitted a plan, we submitted this plan. And uh that's what it was approved about, and they found they found that the the uh revision was an insubstantial change. Um so that's uh so these plans were developed specifically for the commission because uh we know that you're interested in the proximity to the wetlands and the drainage system and the like. Between our first meeting and our second meeting, um in terms of revising the line. You know, there's apologize, there's a lot of lines in here, but this is you know, this project has a long story to it. But the plans that we submitted to you originally as part of this modification showed the limit of work at the red line, and we're able to um condense the the uh the work to this blue line. So, you know, in this area, for example, we brought it in probably 40 feet, um, you know, 10 feet, 15 feet in that area. So we're trying to tighten it up. It cost us additional funds to build more walls so we could bring things in tighter. In a lot of areas, we were showing really more area than we needed to touch. You know, it was 15 feet from the toe of slope out there, and uh, you really didn't need to disturb that area. So we're making it, you know, we're making an effort to try to condense it as as uh tightly as we can.
SPEAKER_07:All right. Anyone else on the board have questions?
SPEAKER_08:Well, I was just noticing there's like no feet or anything, so it's like hard to say. Normally there's like a code for like 25, 50, or 100 feet on there, and I know you talked about that you didn't do the 25-footer. But some areas are very slim, some are on top of each other. It's really kind of hard to know the distance between the actual uh wetlands line and the actual lines that you have.
SPEAKER_05:Yeah, I always use the proxy. Um there's a scale on the plan, but uh I didn't understand there's no graphical scale on the plan. But if you look at if you look at any of the parking spaces, they're 18 feet deep. So you can kind of get um uh a reference, if you will, of as to um this order of magnitude. And uh again, we're able to answer the questions on any kind of specific businesses.
SPEAKER_08:So if they're 18 feet deep, it would look like your uh wetlands line is pretty it's with it's less than the 25, right?
SPEAKER_05:Because you don't have so is so the 25 foot is is has been weighted for this, so I understand that that is you know typically the main focus of this commission. But you know, with the comprehensive permit uh process, all the local bylaws and specifically this, the um So how do you protect the wetlands from by putting up these um walls? So the the um it's kind of a choice between a wall or a slope. So if the wetlands are here, so this is kind of sectional view, right, and you're trying to build a building here, your house. So you can build a little yard and you can slope it down, or you can build that same yard and build a wall. So instead of having your grating and your total slope, you're increasing the distance away from the wetlands by building a wall.
SPEAKER_08:Oh, that's pretty good. That also contaminates the wetlands because it all the flow goes down.
SPEAKER_05:No, actually, so instead of instead of um actually what happens is the flow gets captured by this wall, and on all these walls there's kind of stone that gets put down in here with a little uh, let's say these are multiple white walls anyway, so they kind of all filter out. So instead of having a slope that comes down here where you can actually get the erosion and some velocity on the surface wall, it gets captured by the wall that's it just sort of put above the um above the grid, so it kind of hits the back of this, runs down as part of the stone back of the wall, and then leads up at the bottom, so it comes out of it.
SPEAKER_08:So is that all around the place?
SPEAKER_05:Uh it's yeah, so so here um wherever you see this, yeah, that's those are all retaining walls. So these were either created, lengthened, or moved closer. So basically in this case, this backyard was was shrunk, this wall was made longer, um, so that the wall was able to be shifted in and made longer so that instead of sloping in this area coming out, you were getting down by using a wall. So those were the modifications.
SPEAKER_08:Didn't know if there was any like greenery or trees or shrubs that you used for walls as well.
SPEAKER_05:Um it's really uh you need to uh game grade, right? Yeah, yeah. So you really need a uh a physical wall in order in order to do that. The vegetation is you know uh for screening, you know, buffering, uh uh visual buffers, you know, that sort of thing as our landscaping screening.
SPEAKER_08:So it's just pretty close for all that, and it's all it's all built now, if now.
SPEAKER_05:No, so um so in terms of status and construction, we started over here and then worked our way uh and we're we're about here now. So this is what we are calling phase four, and all the modifications to the site plan are kind of in this area. So this yeah, so this plan is basically focused on that final phase.
SPEAKER_07:So if you drove if you drove by the what you see the metal gate by the construction trailers, it's all between the construction trailers basically. Yeah, the construction trailers are kind of right located right over here, and this is kind of the weapons crossing that exists.
SPEAKER_05:Um this is where it kind of knecks down. So this is this is our gate 44s here.
SPEAKER_07:In follow-up of her last question, the walls will be able to check the area. What do you have to call for the upper buildings here?
SPEAKER_05:These ones here buildings here? Yeah, these are really on graded. So there's no dramatic grade change.
SPEAKER_07:What do you what is there to keep people from expanding the yard to put its wing sets up for the button?
SPEAKER_05:Or it's pulse. Yeah. Um, well, we can certainly uh you know put up your typical polarity size of what I've discussed in the previous hearings. Um I forget what the I recall is kind of 40 feet or so when you can get PVC posts with it on them, or you can do you know your uh, let's say, you know, wooden stakes were certainly available.
SPEAKER_07:Yeah. And with that said, just out of curiosity, when this is all built up, is there like a management company that will be maintaining the property for trash and yes, there's actually already a management company in place under the Dartmouth group.
SPEAKER_05:So they uh uh they took over. We started with one management company, they actually sold their business. Uh Dartmouth Group literally started about a month ago. So we use them at um all of our projects now.
SPEAKER_07:Okay, so they'll be handling cleanup trash in the wetlands, resource areas.
SPEAKER_05:Right. And this this order of conditions is referenced um in our condominium docs as an obligation of the trust. So it's a fiduciary responsibility of the trustees, which is me right now, as the developer. Once we convey 75% of the homes, the unit owners take over as um as trustees. But the management company is there uh throughout. So they handle the day-to-day billing, contracting for uh, you know, your trash removal, your snow plowing, your landscaping, uh that sort of thing. So we we've uh yeah, nowadays we bring them in really right at the beginning.
SPEAKER_10:Are they going to report on yearly basis, monthly basis?
SPEAKER_05:I don't hmm for like in per in perpetuity, you mean? Yeah. Um I don't I don't recall anything uh on the main site. Uh we will likely be back before you at a future date. There's um this is a little set of but related to your question. Uh this parcel here uh is destined for a um uh open space restriction, and um similar to what uh Dan Andre put on the parcel that's down here. So uh we'll be doing that. I believe the commission is the administrator of that uh open space restriction. So in this parcel, which is adjacent to the top of the river, there'll actually be a whole separate overlay of um do's and don'ts and requirements and that sort of thing. So we expect um we're gonna do that before we convey our 75th percentile. So we are in charge, we're still the trustee while that occurs. We don't need to get individual nearboard votes on the rubber and that sort of thing. Okay, so that should be probably um June, July next year. But that's an opportunity. And again, that's that's you know likely your area of primary concern given its proximity to um to the river and the vast majority of it as well.
SPEAKER_07:Okay, anybody else? Anyone in the audience have any questions?
SPEAKER_10:I I think we should continue this until they prove that they've cleaned up what they've got to do as opposed to.
SPEAKER_06:Um yeah, I'm gonna agree with you on that one.
SPEAKER_03:Um anyway we condition the approval on that?
SPEAKER_07:No, we will not do any work that we say is for. No, we don't condition. I mean, we have this conversation I could shut you down now, but I'm not gonna, because how do you condition originally is the APL line in the wetland flag line needs to stay in workable service or condition until the length of the project. Do you have an order of conditions? Uh I mean um to get a compliance on the project, these all those all need to stay in intact. So you know, what we what we did the walking the other day is didn't do a good job because that foundation you have in right now, um, all the machinery is packed. That's the one I have pitches down here or yeah, that first that first spurs you come off. Yeah, you get the little uh shed they built, the bus stop shed. Oh, right here. Yeah, yeah, that's uh for uh bigger cards. Yeah, so that next little cropping is a house that's framed and weather tightened, and there's a foundation next to the road. My first picture I have is empty watering that right over the top of the wet ones, and that hay veil line all through there is all destroyed. Okay.
SPEAKER_05:So are there any other areas of particular concern so I can properly communicate this through the field?
SPEAKER_07:I mean, I walked, put it this way, that whole area from there to the crossing where phase four is stopped. That's where I was. That means whole four. Yeah. Okay. But I mean, even I even saw a few when I was walking today on the phase four area that were broken, deteriorated. They need to go through the whole place and and make sure everything is the way it's supposed to be. Okay. And as soon as you get it done, let me know. I'll come out, take a walk with them, we can go through it, make sure it's good, and get that done for our next meeting, and we can have a decision. Alrighty? Thank you. So I need a motion.
SPEAKER_10:Uh when it's the next meeting, we don't know.
unknown:Right now we have the schedule, but everything is necessary at that meeting.
SPEAKER_10:Yeah. Depending on what we've got in the queue.
SPEAKER_00:All right, then um January. I think it'll be January 7th to be the next time we keep that.
SPEAKER_07:All right. Well we while we do the 7th, unless we end up having a meeting on the 17th, and we'll notify you. Okay. Thank you. Motion?
SPEAKER_10:Uh motion to continue notice uh request for a minor modification for Rockwood LLC. Uh DUP 269-0963 to January 7th, unless we notify you that we'll be meeting on the 17th.
SPEAKER_00:I will second that motion.
SPEAKER_07:Motion made second. All in favor. Aye. Opposed? Unanimous. Thank you. All right, um, next up is continued notice of intent for forty Spruce Street, lot four, DEP number two six nine ten eighty one, and I'm just gonna bring these together, okay? And continued notice of intent for 20 Cypress Way, lot five, DEP number two six nine ten eighty-two. Uh both are proposed single-family homes.
SPEAKER_04:Want to come up or I just want to make sure that we can forget that's on the screen or is that came but uh yeah, Evan Waters hearing for presenting the applicant. Uh last time we met, we went over the plan. Um, I think everything was basically in order except for the issuance of the file number, which we now have. So I'd like to ask the commission to close the hearing and vote on issuing a uh order conditions. Good. I have no problem with that.
SPEAKER_10:All right, motion then do you want to condition uh or do you want to approve as well? Or you just want to um close it?
SPEAKER_04:I think the last couple we had conditions of the the sign. Yeah, that was the only condition very okay.
SPEAKER_07:So we so uh um close and issue. Yeah, we can. Okay. Um just one second. Anyone in the audience questions? Nope.
SPEAKER_10:Okay, we'll do them again. I'll do them together. Uh motion to close notice of intent 40 Spruce Street, lot five, lot four, DEP two six nine ten eighty-one, and close continued notice of intent for 20 Cypress Way, lot five, DEP 269-1082.
SPEAKER_00:I will second that motion.
SPEAKER_07:All right, motion is made and second it to close the hearing on both lot four and five. All in favor? Aye, aye. Aye, opposed unanimous.
SPEAKER_04:Just one noteworthy thing, Mr. Chairman, is uh for lot four, they did um stake out all the erosion control and they didn't install it. Okay, so I was gonna swing by on my way into work tomorrow and get you the letter uh for certifying that it's been installed.
SPEAKER_07:Give me the letter and uh I'll try to get out um yeah, either I'll try to get out by Monday. Okay, yeah.
SPEAKER_04:Yeah, if you're in the area, you can go by it's I've been told it's there, but I'm not gonna certify until I actually see it. So and then just in regards to your next meeting, I was planning if I can get everything in order on my side to file two uh request for determination filings um on Spruce Street. Okay. Um so just if you're planning, you know. Yeah, yeah, depending on how things go. Yeah. Okay. Thank you.
SPEAKER_07:All right, do you want to hang around for one more minute? You want to issue that? Yeah, I don't see why.
SPEAKER_10:Um motion to issue um uh order of conditions for 40 Spruce Street lot four, DEP 269-1081, and uh issue uh order of conditions for notice of intent for 20 Cypress Way, lot five, do we DEP 269-1082?
SPEAKER_07:I will second that. Sorry, we've previously discussed um signage.
SPEAKER_10:We've previously discussed signage.
SPEAKER_00:I will second that motion.
SPEAKER_07:Motion made second, all in favor? Aye, opposed, unanimous. All right, thank you. All right, uh next up is request for determination of 59 New State Highway.
unknown:Wow.
SPEAKER_09:There's a lot of money.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah, there is. Um uh I'm Matt Tavares with JK Homeground Engineering. What was that? Cards. Oh, do you okay. Oh yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_03:I have them.
SPEAKER_07:Um Dad, do you need this? Yes, I need this for one minute. Oh, wait a minute. Um, that's not what I need. Okay, I didn't see the idea.
SPEAKER_00:All right. Um, fifty-nine New State Highway. Rainham Nass legal notice. Notice the public hearing conservation commission in Rainham, Massachusetts, in coordinates with the Massachusetts General Law, Chapter 131, Section 40 in the county rainham. Local bylaw, the Rainham Conservation Commission hold a public hearing meeting on Wednesday, December 3rd, 2025 at 5 30 p.m. in the non-almaking meeting room in the Ranium Bedroom Royal Town Hall, located at 50 itself, Mainstreet Radium map on the RD5 by Iranian Crossing L T D. The applicant proposes reconstruction of the concrete location 59 UC Highway. The properties owned by Iranium Crossing L T D copies of the application may be reviewed at the RTC office during normal physical hours.
SPEAKER_01:Um the problem is you guys 59 state highway. Uh less big lots, but now kind of just one stakeholders, so they just want to make a few changes to the process of that. So as you can see in the south of the property, you have this under um line, which is the delineated line, you have the following blue line, which is the 100 foot number, is the 200 foot. Basically what we're trying to do is they just re-existing on three path, and you can see in the three on this one, the three pads, they just want to replace, and they do want to add one trash and float it back. And they also in the process of that one restrict that back here, which is strict right now.
SPEAKER_10:If you guys have any questions, I'd be happy to ask. So all you're doing is replacing the pad? Exactly.
SPEAKER_07:I went to the pre-construction meeting and um it was discussed there. Everything they're doing is already on built pavement. Um so because they're within the uh the 100-foot they um and the 200 foot, they needed to just do the IDA, but it's uh it's pretty straightforward. Um I don't have any issues.
unknown:No.
SPEAKER_07:Anyone in the audience? No? All right. Um I I just the only thing, oh women of work, silk detection. Okay. Yeah, we're gonna put yeah, that's I don't know what color is on that left. I see it now. I'm sorry, I didn't see it right originally. The orange line. Yep. Okay.
SPEAKER_10:Um close and then issue. Yep. Uh motion to close request for determination of 59 new state highway. I will second that motion.
SPEAKER_07:Motion may second it. All in favor? Aye. Aye, opposed, unanimous.
SPEAKER_03:Okay, thank you.
SPEAKER_07:Um motion to issue that.
SPEAKER_10:Yeah, we do know, yeah, it'll be a negative motion to issue a negative seven determination for 59 new state highway.
SPEAKER_00:I will second that. Second it, all in favor, aye, opposed, no.
unknown:Thank you.
SPEAKER_07:All right, sir. Um you're here for okay. Just hold on one second then, okay? Um all right, we'll just do this under informal. Yeah. Okay. Uh just take your name for the record and address. My name's Walter Lowe. I'm at 480 South Main Street. 480. Yep.
SPEAKER_02:Four houses down from here. Okay, go ahead. Um, I went for a walk along the river about a month ago, and I discovered. Maybe you want to see pictures of it or not, but there's a car engine or a block buried right in my past month. Let me show you other stuff I found too back there. I I filled up two 42-gallon bags of trash since I've lived there, and it keeps coming down the river. I was down there today picking up bottles, you know, cans. Um, I can imagine what it's like down here. Take a walk to the river down here, but you find the same thing. But anyway, regardless, I just need advice on how to get rid of that engine. It's uh it's conservation land behind my house. And I don't know how long it's been there. My house has only been there for 12, 13 years. That's been sitting there for a while. You can see how close it is to the water. How oh, it's not in the water? Not in the water, no, it's pretty close. Especially after the rain you had yesterday. Um, and there's the other picture's just an example of other stuff that's buried back back there. So I'm not sure what is the most environmentally friendly way to do it, I guess. I mean that that's about 15, 20 feet below my yard, and it's about a hundred feet behind the fence from where the conservation land starts in my backyard. So I'm not sure how to get out of there. I cannot carry it. I've I've taken some bolts out, try to take it apart, you know, like pieces. Well, I'm sure it's so rusted.
SPEAKER_10:You can get DPW to go down and take that out of there.
SPEAKER_07:I mean, I can I can speak to them. As far as conservation, and this is I'll just go through my speech. And I apologize, but um this has come to light a few things lately that we in the conservation office, we don't have the resources for you know, we don't have trucks, we don't have manpower, yeah. We're all volunteers. Yeah, no, I got it. Um we don't have the resources to do stuff like that. Right. Um I can speak and put you in ball. I'll speak to the highway superintendent. Um the problem is, you know, how does he get out there?
SPEAKER_02:That's the problem. It's obviously it's dense woods, you know, and like I say, it's a hundred feet from my backyard. Uh you could you could go to my neighbor, I've never talked to my neighbor actually, the three houses down, but they're they have a clearing that goes almost back to there uh in their backyard. So you'd have to go, you know, use their yard because you winch it, I don't you know, winch it like a hundred feet through the conservation area. I don't think you'd like that idea.
SPEAKER_07:So um yeah, I'll yeah. I will I will bring it up to him and um you know and I'll I'll get back to you. Okay. See what we can, you know.
SPEAKER_02:Yeah.
SPEAKER_07:You can see we can come up with a solution. Yeah, okay. No guarantees.
SPEAKER_02:No, I understand it's on my property. I I'm pretty sure it's on my property. Um, because there's no there's no marker saying where it begins and ends. So I was looking at my um blueprints and I was thinking, I think this is on my land. And that's how I found it. I was like, I think my land goes a little farther south than I thought, so I thought I'd take a walk over there to see what that was. And I took my trash bag with me because I knew it was gonna be trash down there. And um yeah, that's when I saw the engine. Never knew it was there until about a month ago.
SPEAKER_07:Yeah. And and then what I was gonna say is we've got complaints about beavers lately in town places, but as conservation, we have no control over that. Right. That's fish and game. Yeah. You know. Yeah, we saw it from our house. I can't I can't ask them to leave and move somewhere else. Right. Um, you know, our charge here is you know, enforcing the Wetlands Protection Act and you know the meetings we just heard, you know. Yeah, I think it's this is kind of yeah, it's environmentally not good, but yeah, it's something that we don't necessarily deal with.
SPEAKER_02:Well, I didn't know if it was if if I called someone who would salvage it, you know, and I don't think it's worth the iron, you know, worth the money for them to do it. Um, I ends up there pretty good right now.
SPEAKER_08:You can do all those signs that are all around town that says uh junk in cars, they'll come pick up.
SPEAKER_02:Well well, I again I didn't know if that was the right way to do it or not. Because they might come take a look at it and say, I'm not gonna do it. You know, it's too much work. You know, do this all the time.
SPEAKER_08:Get a wheelbarrow, get out there somehow?
SPEAKER_02:I found a wheelbarrow back there too. That's all busted. Somebody already tried it. A tire rim back there. I I've got um some stuff I actually was able to pull out of the ground. And it was like an old tire axle or something. It was like literally sticking three feet out of the ground. Oh this stuff got there.
SPEAKER_07:Have you ever gone on I'm sorry, you ever gone on the town website and seen the property markers?
SPEAKER_02:Property markers? Well, I I I had blueprints.
SPEAKER_07:Yeah. So this is the GIS mapping of the town.
SPEAKER_02:Okay.
SPEAKER_07:And here is your property. Yeah. So this is what your property looks like. Yeah.
SPEAKER_02:We're in relation to that point. Right around that bend. Yeah, the water's over here, it's right around that bend. And I think, again, that's right around where the uh the border is for our property line.
SPEAKER_07:Yeah.
SPEAKER_02:I'm not sure. I I think I just think it's on my end, but I just don't know how anybody's gonna get out there.
SPEAKER_07:Right.
SPEAKER_02:Yeah, that's that's what I'm saying. That house is over here.
SPEAKER_07:Yeah.
SPEAKER_02:And this is where the fence line is back here. Well, maybe this is the fence line, I'm not sure. But regardless, um, you know, it's it's it's a bit of a hole.
SPEAKER_07:Yeah. So I you know, I'll have word, I'll have a conversation with the uh DPW director, and uh we'll go from there and I'll get back to you. That sound good? Yeah. Alright, thank you, sir. You have it, don't you? Oh, if you could just give it to her?
SPEAKER_03:Yeah.
SPEAKER_07:Okay, perfect. Yeah, here's your pictures. Uh actually, can I keep that?
SPEAKER_02:Yes, sir.
SPEAKER_07:All right, thank you. The other one was just Yes, I see some stuff there.
SPEAKER_02:It was buried like two bottles in the water today.
SPEAKER_07:Yeah. I don't know how they're getting there. Possible, yeah. Yeah.
SPEAKER_02:Downstream.
SPEAKER_07:Everything goes downstream. So we know it. Okay, all right. Um thank you. Thank you, sir. Uh, we've had our save um people come in this year, and um they couldn't make it tonight, so I'll just give a little review of what they've done. Um the gentleman has once again done trash, uh, cut back spriars on trails, um picked up fishing line around Hewitt's Pond. Um kind of he goes out there and walks and talks to the people that walk out there and does some uh nature uh teaching. Uh on the Forge River, same thing, trash. Um cut back some of the trails from some damage, storm damage. Um the Channel Forest, same thing, trash, cut back some uh the trails. Um he also noted that uh he's found a couple barred owls out there uh this past year. Um he has a couple recommendations that we put some like a little kiosk out there with some uh information, something we can talk about next year. Um he said the Boy Scouts did a good job of um helping out with the trailblazing uh they did out there. And Kathy, she's been in, and she's been a huge help to Amy um organizing the office and kind of helping with our file system, which I made a mess of. Um so that's been a big help to Amy and uh she wants to come back again in uh in uh next year and do the same thing. And Amy's grateful for her help. So with that, uh we'll just sign their things.
SPEAKER_06:Anybody's got any questions or comments?
SPEAKER_10:Would it make sense to send both of them a thank you? Yeah, that would that would be very saying that we appreciate their efforts.
SPEAKER_07:Um did everyone get a chance to read the minutes from November nineteenth?
SPEAKER_10:Motion to accept? Oh second, yeah.
SPEAKER_07:Motion main second, all in favor? Aye. Opposed, yes. Um while you're signing that, um I have some correspondents and one of them I just discussed uh a few minutes ago. We've had an ongoing problem down on um Park Place. I went down there this past spring with reported beavers flooding out the area. At the time I went down, I could not find any sign of little critters doing damage. Um, but I guess it's gotten bad again. And this gentleman has gone to Taunton Conservation because it's right on the border of the uh what's that mass slave park over there? Rico River, Rico, Rico Pond. And the agent from there called me. I returned her call and she's never returned my call back. Um but once again, this is nothing the conservation commission can handle. This is we don't own the wildlife, it's fishing game. If they're a nuisance animal, um from what I've always understood, they have the right to relocate them. So there's nothing we can do on that one.
SPEAKER_08:Um Is this new for our area? Is this new?
SPEAKER_07:The past three or four years, yeah. In fact, uh sad day after I left Lockwood, I was coming up 44. And right at the truck entrance for just before the lights for uh Lowe's, there was a dead one on the road. So, and I've heard of them out back here. I haven't seen them, but I've heard different people say they're out back behind here.
SPEAKER_10:So was it physically a dam there? A baver dam?
SPEAKER_07:Supposedly, yeah. I haven't seen it.
unknown:Okay.
SPEAKER_07:I couldn't find it the day I went out there.
SPEAKER_10:Could we send this to mass wildlife? Did they do anything? Although it looks like this guy's contacted everybody in.
SPEAKER_07:It's up against it's it's now flooding up against the uh railroad bed, so he's contacted Keos and Army Corps of Engineers. Um yeah.
SPEAKER_10:I mean, does nobody else left to contact?
SPEAKER_07:No.
SPEAKER_10:So and nobody's done anything, and nobody's proposed any?
SPEAKER_07:I don't know. Like I said, I told him when I originally talked to him six months ago or whatever, it was a fish and game issue. He's gone I know he's contacted the water department, the highway department. Um it's it's not our issue.
SPEAKER_06:Um, I don't know.
SPEAKER_09:But she doesn't know she had a lot of summary. Um talk with her teaching. Um if you got a total of my age that would be two, but she hadn't initiated checking out at work.
SPEAKER_06:Yeah, I don't remember this.
SPEAKER_09:So she's like vision, or she mentioned it.
SPEAKER_10:Is this the new hotel they're proposing on the last property there? Well, there was a meeting for that several months ago.
SPEAKER_03:Right.
SPEAKER_10:Uh where they talked about a proposal. It wasn't it was just a pre-construction type meeting. And they were supposed to come forward with an RDA. We haven't seen anything.
SPEAKER_07:Well the ball's in her court then.
SPEAKER_09:Okay, so she put whatever we I don't know if she had that meeting, I don't think she was in relation to the developer, yeah. Um I don't have a she's uh developer on the real room set things or not going to be high.
SPEAKER_10:She I would suggest you do an RDA. That way we can formally review everything and guide her.
SPEAKER_07:I'll I'll right and the last thing is we talked about this earlier, was the um notice from the um Department of Agricultural Resources that the evasive Lantern fly has been identified in rainham and um they attack trees, grapevines, maple trees, uh hop vine roop vine, and uh many other plants. Uh this pests are known to pack grape and wine produces and other agricultural commodities. Um due to their swallowing behavior, the adults uh late summer and fall. Uh they're not uh that said they're insects that do not bite or sting, they're just a nuisance because they gather in large numbers. Um and they cover stuff with a sticky, sugary waste product known as honeydew. Okay. A little too much information. Um but they want to be contacted um evidently if anyone spots these and so there's there's a bounty on it. There's a bounty on it. So if you hear of anybody that has come across them, they can contact the Massachusetts Department of Agricultural Resource and South Borough Mass. Alrighty. Um no site visits at the moment until they comply with oh if he gets his if he gets the hay bills done, I'll just do it. I'll be down that area this weekend, so I'll take care of that. Okay. Alrighty. Uh anybody else got anything?
unknown:Okay.
SPEAKER_07:One other motion then motion to during the meeting. Second. Second. All in favor? Aye, opposed, unanimous.