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?