The Conservation Commission is holding a special Zoom hearing this Thursday, October 24, at 7 pm to continue its review of stormwater issues at the Mugar/Thorndike Place development in East Arlington. Check the Con Com website to register for the Zoom meeting and to see the final agenda, new correspondence, and reports.
The Commission has received the peer review report from GZA GeoEnvironmental, Inc., and revised stormwater calculations from BSC, the consultant for the Applicant (Arlington Land Realty LLC), as part of its review 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, has also provided information from their respective groundwater monitoring and stormwater mounding analyses. The Commission’s Thorndike Place Wetlands Permit web page hosts the recent GZA and BSC reports along with previous peer review and consultants’ reports, public comments, and other correspondence regarding the NOI hearing.