Conservation Commission

Conservation Commission approves ADA and trail projects at March meeting. Chair Chris Garrahan and Commission members unanimously approved a grant-funded Americans with Disabilities Act access project at Heart Pond Beach, including new pedestrian walkways and storm water management infrastructure

Chelmsford Conservation Commission unanimously approves landfill test pit project. DPW Director Christine Clancy presented the regulatory request to clear trees and install up to 10 test pits on the 40 Swain Road landfill cap, capped in the 1990s. Test pits, dug to 1 to 5 feet, will gather

Conservation Commission issues enforcement order requiring wetlands buffer restoration at Mill Road. The property owner, Luis Vilella, constructed a retaining wall within the protected 25-foot wetlands buffer zone without permits, triggering a Building Inspector citation and Cease and Desist Order.

The Chelmsford Conservation Commission rejected a flood-protection bylaw amendment in a 3-4 vote. Commissioners Karl Bischoff, Chris Garrahan, and Peter Spawn supported the proposal to add a 100-foot buffer zone for land subject to flooding, while William Vines, John Swenson, Marc Gibbs, and

Conservation Commission unanimously endorses wetlands buffer zone warrant article. The board voted to recommend that the Spring Town Meeting consider an amendment to the Chelmsford Wetlands Bylaw establishing a regulatory 100-foot buffer zone for Bordering Land Subject to Flooding, also known as