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Wales commission ratifies RDA waiver to allow soil borings for culvert design on Peck and Monson roads
Summary
At its May 13 meeting the Town of Wales Conservation Commission unanimously ratified a waiver to skip an RDA filing and allow Tighe & Bond to perform soil borings on Peck and Monson roads to collect data for future culvert replacement design; the work is limited to one-square-foot temporary impacts and will be patched the same day.
At its May 13 meeting the Town of Wales Conservation Commission ratified a prior administrative approval to waive a Request for Determination of Applicability (RDA) so Tighe & Bond can perform soil borings along Peck Road and Monson Road.
The motion (051326-01) was offered by Sarah Ryan, seconded by Joanie D’Ambrosia and passed on a unanimous roll-call vote of 5–0 (Jennifer Bothwell, Joanie D’Ambrosia, Zachery Berry, Sarah Ryan, Joshua Smith recorded as voting yes). The commission cited the Wetlands Protection Act exemption at 310 CMR 10.02(2)(b)(2)f for “minor activities” and relied on an “Exempt Minor Activities Letter” provided by Tighe & Bond.
According to materials presented to the commission, the proposed soil-boring work is limited to existing paved roadway or roadway shoulder within the buffer zone and riverfront area. Each temporary impact would occupy about one square foot, be backfilled and patched the same day, and be used only to collect data for future culvert replacement design.
The vote follows the commission’s recent review of Culvert #3 on Monson Road, where MassDOT and the Department of Environmental Protection provided photographs showing the streambed material used in the final layers of the culvert and in a portion of restored stream. Commission members said the borings are intended to inform design work rather than to begin construction.
Next steps: Tighe & Bond may proceed with the scheduled data-collection work, and any future design or construction phases will be subject to permitting requirements as required by state law and local regulations.
