The Conservation Commission hearing on stormwater issues at the Mugar/Thorndike Place development, originally scheduled for Thursday, September 5, has been continued again to Thursday, September 19. Check the Con Com website for the final agenda, new correspondence and reports, and Zoom registration information.

The Commission has received the peer review report from GZA GeoEnvironmental, Inc., but is not ready to hold its hearing on the stormwater review aspects of the Notice of Intent (NOI) for Thorndike Place under the Massachusetts Wetland Protection Act (WPA). The Commission hired GZA in June as a third-party reviewer to provide additional geohydrologic expertise on the project’s compliance with regulations outlined in the Massachusetts Stormwater Handbook and Stormwater Standards. 

As documented in previous hearings, the Land Trust, through its hydrology consultants, Scott Horsley and Michael Mobile/MMA, and The BSC Group, engineering consultants for the Applicant, Arlington Land Realty LLC, have provided information from their respective groundwater monitoring and stormwater mounding analyses. The next hearing is expected to be a critical review of the long-running and conflicting analyses and assessments provided to date. 

The GZA Stormwater Standards Peer Review is posted on the Commission’s Thorndike Place Wetlands Permit web page along with previous peer review and consultants’ reports, public comments, and other correspondence regarding the NOI hearing.