Get Full Government Meeting Transcripts, Videos, & Alerts Forever!
Get email alerts on the Seawall Otis Reservoir topic
No spam. Unsubscribe anytime.
Homeowner’s proposed seawall on Otis Reservoir continued pending DCR approvals and engineering plans
Summary
The Tolland Conservation Commission continued a Notice of Intent from homeowner Mark Grzymski to rebuild a seawall at 189 Lands End Drive after finding the application incomplete and noting the need for Massachusetts DCR/Chapter 91 review and additional engineering and planting details.
Homeowner Mark Grzymski submitted a Notice of Intent (NOI 306-100) proposing to tear down and rebuild a seawall at 189 Lands End Drive on Otis Reservoir, raising the wall about 8 inches to match the dock height, adding two stone steps and topsoil, and including shoreline plantings. The Tolland Conservation Commission said the filing lacked a scaled drawing showing the new wall and elevation changes and called for a detailed construction-methods and vegetation plan.
The Commission noted the existing seawall and dock do not have a Chapter 91 license and that the Massachusetts Department of Conservation and Recreation (referred to in the meeting record as MASS DCR) must be applied to and must approve any work on Otis Reservoir before the Tolland Conservation Commission can rule on the project. The record also references MASSDEP in relation to attendees; the meeting used both agency acronyms in describing regulation and attendance.
Because the application is missing critical materials, the Commission voted unanimously to continue the hearing to the next meeting and provided the applicant a list of required information and DCR contacts to help complete the submission. The Commission discussed using planting and vegetation to protect shoreline resources as part of the remediation and design plan.
The continuance preserves the record while the applicant secures DCR review and supplies the engineering, scaled drawings and planting plan the TCC requires.
