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Town board approves several wetlands permits with added buffers, pump limits and inspection requirements
Summary
Shelter Island’s town board approved wetlands permits for properties including 85 Shore Road, 74 Peconic Avenue and 31B Dickerson Drive, adding conditions such as vegetative buffers, limits on well pumps and requirements for final as-built surveys and revegetation.
The town board approved multiple wetlands permits and corrected an earlier resolution for Bootsie LLC (85 Shore Road), attaching detailed conditions intended to protect wetlands and sensitive aquifers.
The Bootsie LLC resolution authorizes excavation, regrading and planting within 100 feet of wetlands and requires a revised site plan with an additional 25-foot no-mow buffer, a revised planting plan that replaces Chinese junipers with eastern red cedars in the north corner, a 1-horsepower (≤24 GPM) limit for any well to reduce aquifer drawdown, and final wetland inspection and as-built survey submission.
Separately the board approved a permit for 74 Peconic Avenue (Courtney O’Sullivan) requiring elimination of the second-floor roof deck, a 25-foot vegetated buffer, removal of a proposed swimming pool, low-flow wells (5 gpm) with holding tanks, wire-backed silt fencing and immediate revegetation. For 31B Dickerson Drive the board approved a 30-foot vegetative buffer, a covenant prohibiting enclosure within the 100-foot regulated area, prohibition of dewatering for pool construction, and final as-built survey submission.
Board members discussed saltwater-intrusion concerns in the Silver Beach area and asked whether a "lease analysis" (drawdown study) should be requested; staff and the town’s environmental consultant said the condition of a low-flow pump and other constraints addressed much of the risk. Motions to approve these permits carried at the meeting.
