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The Conservation Commission will continue its hearing on the stormwater review aspect of the Notice of Intent (NOI) for Thorndike Place, under the Massachusetts Wetland Protection Act (WPA) received from Arlington Land Realty, LLC, the owner/developer of the site. 

The Zoom meeting will take place on Thursday, July 11, starting at 7 pm. Check the Con Com website for the final agenda, new correspondence and reports submitted for this hearing, and Zoom registration information.

The Commission hired GZA GeoEnvironmental, Inc. (GZA) in June as a third-party peer 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, and The BSC Group, as engineering consultants for the Applicant, have provided information from their respective groundwater monitoring and stormwater mounding analyses. 

This hearing is expected to be a critical review of the long-running and conflicting analyses and assessments provided to date. It could be the final hearing before the Commission arrives at its decision on the NOI. The next meeting is tentatively scheduled for July 25. 

Previous peer review and consultants’ reports, public comments, and other correspondence regarding the NOI hearing are posted on the Commission’s Thorndike Place Wetlands Permit web page.  

The Conservation Commission will continue its hearing on the stormwater review aspect of the Notice of Intent (NOI) for Thorndike Place, under the Massachusetts Wetland Protection Act (WPA) received from Arlington Land Realty, LLC, the owner/developer of the site. The Zoom meeting will take place on Thursday, June 20, starting at 7 pm.

The Commission has recently hired GZA GeoEnvironmental, Inc. (GZA) as a third-party peer reviewer to provide additional geohydrologic expertise on the project’s compliance with regulations outlined in the Massachusetts Stormwater Handbook and Stormwater Standards, as required by the Department of Environmental Protection. As documented in previous hearings, the Land Trust, through its hydrology consultants, and The BSC Group, as engineering consultants for the Applicant, have provided information from their respective groundwater monitoring and stormwater mounding analyses. 

Please note that GZA’s review is not expected to be completed by June 20, so discussion of the project and their findings may be limited. Future Con Com hearings are tentatively scheduled for July 11 and July 25. 

Check the Con Com website for the final agenda, additional correspondence submitted for the hearing, and Zoom registration information.

Previous peer review and consultants’ reports, public comments, and other correspondence regarding the NOI hearing are posted on the Commission’s Thorndike Place Wetlands Permit web page.

On Thursday, May 16 at 7 pm via Zoom, the Conservation Commission will continue its hearing on the stormwater review aspect of the Notice of Intent (NOI) for Thorndike Place, under the Massachusetts Wetland Protection Act (WPA) received from Arlington Land Realty, LLC, the owner/developer of the site.
Check the Con Com website for the final agenda, additional correspondence submitted for the hearing, and Zoom registration information.

Numerous peer review and consultants’ reports, public comments, recordings of previous meetings, and other correspondence regarding the NOI hearing are posted on the Commission’s Thorndike Place Wetlands Permit web page. 

The Land Trust, through its hydrology consultants, and The BSC Group, as engineering consultants for the Applicant, both continue to collect data from their respective groundwater monitoring wells and test pits, and are expected to present additional findings. Another third-party peer reviewer may also be providing comments to address the project’s compliance with regulations outlined in the Massachusetts Stormwater Handbook and Stormwater Standards, as required by the Department of Environmental Protection.

On Thursday, May 2 at 7 pm via Zoom, the Conservation Commission will continue its hearing on the stormwater review aspect of the Notice of Intent (NOI) for Thorndike Place, under the Massachusetts Wetland Protection Act (WPA) received from Arlington Land Realty, LLC, the owner/developer of the site. The hearing on the invasive management and habitat plan was completed at the April 4 meeting.

Check the Con Com website for the final agenda, additional correspondence submitted for the hearing, and Zoom registration information.
Numerous peer review and consultants’ reports, public comments, recordings of previous meetings, and other correspondence regarding the NOI hearing are posted on the Commission’s Thorndike Place Wetlands Permit web page. 

The Land Trust continues to fund Hydrologist Scott Horsley and his colleagues to analyze data presented by the developer’s consultant, BSC Group, and to present new data based on their own research, including water level readings from additional monitoring wells that have been placed on Town property adjacent to the Mugar site. The developer and BSC Group also agreed to install additional test pits and a monitoring well on their property. All of the new data is expected to be presented and discussed at the May 2 meeting.