Conservation commission approves stormwater conditions for Winter Street solar on closed landfill

The Norwood Conservation Commission on March 5 approved an Order of Conditions for a proposed solar photovoltaic facility at the closed Winter Street landfill, located at 0 Winter Street (DEP file 251-0568). The applicant is TES Winter Street Solar 23 LLC; the project was represented to the commission by Rich Tabasinski of Atlantic Design Engineers.

The project is sited in the buffer zone to an adjacent bordering vegetated wetland and near Winter Brook, a cold‑water fishery. The applicant presented a stormwater addendum with revised calculations and a set of on‑site stormwater measures the team said reduce post‑development runoff to below predevelopment rates for the 2‑, 10‑, 25‑ and 100‑year storms. Rich Tabasinski said the plan adds a four‑bay pretreatment unit to capture runoff from an existing paved stockpile area and reduces an existing spillway from 8 feet to 7 feet,…