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Look Park Request for Additional Information MEMORANDUM MEMORANDUM To: Anthony Zerilli, Weston and Sampson CC: Ray Ellerbrook, Executive Director, Look Park From: Sarah LaValley Date: December 21, 2010 Re: NOI Filing, Willow Pond Dredging Staff have completed a preliminary review of the Willow Pond NOI, and have determined that additional information will be required for a complete review of the project. We cannot schedule the public hearing until the application is complete and you have provided us the information shown below. 1.All resource areas within the site must be shown on project plans. These include: bank, 100 foot and 200 foot riverfront area, vernal pool resource areas, intermittent streams, bordering land subject to flooding, all buffer zones under both the Wetlands Protection Act and Northampton Wetlands Ordinance, and the local ‘no-encroachment’ zone. Any impacts to these areas that not quantified in the NOI must be identified, and detailed explanations of how the proposed work meets all applicable performance standards for these resource areas must be provided. Performance standards are not addressed in the existing materials. 2.Proof of mailing to NHESP must be provided. The Conservation Commission will not be able to issue an Order of Conditions until an opinion from NHESP has been received, or 30 days from mailing has elapsed. 3.Please provide more information about the culvert replacements, these were not included in the detail sheets. 4.A permit may be required from the Northampton DPW under the Northampton Stormwater Ordinance. Please contact Doug McDonald at the DPW for more information. DMcdonald@nohodpw.org, or 413-587-1582. 5.The application and narrative address only the impacts from the dredging project, but plan sheet C-4 includes the conversion of the eastern ‘recycle’ area into a multi-purpose playing field and parking lot. If this work is to be included in the current NOI, additional information about what is proposed, its impacts to resource areas, and detail sheets must be provided. Otherwise, this sheet should be removed, and an additional NOI for this work filed later. 6.Please provide an update as to the status of the USACOE Regional General Permit and MassDEP 401 Water Quality Certifications. Have these been filed or issued?