That is the big news for this week.
Our well drilling has been delayed at least until after Dec 9 because the conservation commission came out and said that we need to go thru a hearing process. This is required, they said, because of the little 1' wide stream that runs along the edge of our property and the wet area that feeds into it. Likely we will have to line the edges with bales of hay and such to protect it from any soil run off. This truly pristine water (as it bubbles right out of ther ground 100' away!) runs along our sanded and salted dirt road, directly into a beaver crap infested dead pond... so we must be very careful to not disturb the eco-system.
:-/
The public hearing about our well is now set for Dec 8. I had to call the excavator and driller and delay their arrival and then file more paper work at town hall and get a list of abutters and send them all notices and place an ad in the local paper...yada, yada...
Moral of the story is.... let's see...
Don't buy property with water on it unless it is large enough to swim or boat in so that at least you can offset any permit hassles with pleasures. How's that?
Any-who, sounds like the decent weather is going to hold a bit longer for the project. Here's hoping!
2 comments:
how nice of those individuals to give a bad name to land conservation...you would think they would be more concerned about the pollution from all the salt and sand the town dumps on that road and thereby into the stream and that poo infested pond would be of greater concern.
I think the probelm is that every wet space is apparently treated equally so it doesn't seem to matter if it is a tiny stream to an infested pond or a major watershed into a pristine lake. It also doesn't matter what your project is, from what I can tell. So drilling a well (overall a good thing to do) is treated the same as a lot of other things which might not be so good. Kind of a blanket policy of sorts.
I suspect some towns have found ways to distinquish a bit but I apparently don't line in one of them. In fact the Shutesbury policy seems more restrictive than the state's.
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