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Recreation department outlines drainage and fertilization plan for town fields; commission raises water-quality concerns
Summary
The commission reviewed a site walk and proposed grading, catch basin and discharge piping for the recreation fields, discussed fertilization practices and timing, and asked staff to coordinate with the recreation department and select board on funding and impact-fee use.
Brentwood’s Conservation Commission reviewed a proposal from the Recreation Department and a landscape contractor to correct drainage problems and improve turf on the town playing fields.
Commission members who completed a site walk described a plan to regrade one side of the fields so surface water drains toward the tree line, install a catch basin near the parking lot low point, and run a discharge pipe under the parking lot to daylight in the woods. The contractor said the work would address a persistent low area that “collects in the trough”…
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