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Peabody conservation commission approves cemetery maintenance agreement tied to bike-path work
Summary
The Peabody City Conservation Commission voted 5-0 June 11 to formalize a maintenance agreement allowing Temple Bethel’s cemetery to perform vegetation work in wetland buffer areas, with conditions from two commissioners and coordination with a planned Independence Bike Path project.
The Peabody City Conservation Commission unanimously voted June 11 to formalize a maintenance agreement letting the Bethel Congregation Cemetery perform vegetation maintenance within the wetland buffer adjacent to Procter Brook, including removal of dangerous overhanging trees, limited mowing, a shallow electrical conduit trench for sprinkler controls, and stabilization of a drainage ditch.
The vote came after staff and cemetery representatives described the work as “normal maintenance” and said the activity would be confined to the buffer area; commissioners also attached conditions drawn from site-walk memoranda by Commissioners Bruce Komack and Mike Rizzo. Kurt Bellavance, director of community development and planning for Peabody City, said the cemetery’s cleanup plan grew out of coordination with the…
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