Property owner to replace River Street seawall; commission presses for lower-impact alternatives

The Yarmouth Conservation Commission on April 3 heard a detailed proposal to replace and raise an existing wooden seawall at 104 River Street and continued the item to allow the applicant to produce additional analysis and a revised plan.

The applicant, property owner Billy Grama, represented by land surveyor Kieran Healy of BSC Group, proposed removing the existing wall, excavating to install buried “dead‑men” anchors, backfilling, replacing stone against the wall, and creating a 3‑foot gravel buffer strip with plantings behind it. Healy said the plan also calls for replacing removed trees “in kind” and planting bushes where trees are removed. He told the commission the wall would be raised roughly two feet and that separate Chapter 91…