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Norwalk Shellfish commissioners press to rejoin watershed planning, raise concerns about Manresa Island and DEEP handling of Eversource hearing
Summary
At its March 6 meeting the Norwalk Shellfish Commission urged active participation in a resurfaced Norwalk River Watershed Initiative, flagged permitting and remediation issues for the proposed Manresa Island project, and described a recent DEEP response on the Eversource HDD adjudicatory hearing that commissioners said limits public review.
At its March 6 meeting, the Norwalk Shellfish Commission heard a multi-topic report from Jeff Stedman on watershed planning, the Manresa Island proposal and a DEEP response to the Eversource horizontal directional drilling hearing.
Stedman told commissioners the Harbor Commission had won approval for a $3,500,000 grant to rebuild Veterans Park Marina but the bond commission had not yet allocated funds; he said bond-commission action was expected in April. Stedman said the Manresa Island presentation held the previous night included detailed models and a project timeline that, in his view, conspicuously lacked time for regulatory approvals and remediation planning. "It's not going to just involve the upland; it's going to involve the in-water, most likely the brackish and intertidal areas as well," Stedman said,…
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