Pepperell Conservation Commission Approves Sewer Connection Through Wetland Buffer Zone

PEPPERELL -- September 12, 2023, Pepperell Conservation Commission unanimously approves sewer connection through wetland buffer for Park Street two-family dwelling. The commission voted Tuesday to issue an order of conditions allowing applicant Jeff Chabot to run two sewer laterals from a proposed two-unit dwelling at the corner of Park Street and Brookline Street to existing municipal sewer stubs, with the route crossing the 100-foot wetland buffer and approaching the 50-foot buffer line. Engineer Jack Visniewski of J. Visniewski LLC presented the plan, which was amended during the hearing to include additional granite wetland-boundary markers along the lot line and an extended erosion-control limit of work running along the 100-foot buffer zone. Members also required that trench spoils be stacked on the house side of the excavation, away from the wetland. Two other public hearings, for 40 Park Street and 23 Mill Street, were continued to October 3, and a certificate of compliance for 11 Saratell Street was deferred because recent heavy rains left the site unstabilized.