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Commission approves DPW emergency work to breach beaver dam after impoundment grows
Gardner City Conservation Commission · November 25, 2025
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Summary
Commission authorized emergency DPW work to breach a beaver-formed abutment impounding about 3–3.5 feet near Apalachian/LaChance Street on Mahoning (transcribed also as 'Mahoney') Brook, citing risk to surge infrastructure and upstream stagnation; members noted permitting considerations with 'mass fishing wildlife.'
Commission members heard from staff that beaver activity had created a new abutment on the stream near Apalachian Street that was impounding roughly 3 to 3.5 feet of water. Staff said the Department of Public Works wanted to breach the dam to…
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