Conservation Commission Approves Wetlands Conditions for Piel Street Townhouse Project

PEPPERELL — July 11, 2017 — Pepperell Conservation Commission unanimously approved an Order of Conditions Tuesday for a proposed single-family townhouse and common driveway at 13 Piel Street, clearing the project's wetlands review hurdle. Engineer Brian Marchetti, representing applicants Daniel and Val O'Brien, presented revised plans showing a rotated house footprint that increases clearance from the 50-foot no-disturbance zone to a minimum of eight and a half feet, compared to roughly two feet in the prior design. The Planning Board had approved the same project the night before. Conditions attached to the commission's approval require approximately five or six wetland-edge boundary markers — posts, boulders, or granite — installed prior to any certificate of compliance, commission oversight during replacement of a 20-to-25-foot culvert with new HDPE pipe, and, if construction begins before a five-year Chapter 90 road moratorium on recently paved Piel Street expires, installation of an on-site private drinking-water well rather than a road-cut connection to the town water main. The commission also approved bills payable totaling $643, covering a $543 MACC membership and a $100 watershed association membership.