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Multiple riverfront and seawall projects prompt demands for revised plantings, soils data and conditions on floats
Summary
Commissioners reviewed several seawall, dock and float applications, requested soils data and revised planting lists, and either continued or approved projects with conditions (including limits on barges during summer, shellfish transfer around relocated piles, and vegetated buffers). Waterways and Shellfish chair cautioned about vessel placement and navigation hazards.
At a lengthy session, the Town of Yarmouth Conservation Commission took up several shoreline and riverfront proposals and reached mixed outcomes: some projects were continued to allow submission of additional soils data, planting lists or revised plans, while at least one float-size modification was approved with special conditions.
Dan Ogeola, a surveyor and civil engineer with Downkeep/Down Cape Engineering, presented a revision for a property where a boardwalk had been removed; he argued the local soils (clay veneer) can give hydric-soil signals even on higher ground and proposed a compromise wetland boundary at about…
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