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The Somerset Conservation Commission met on August 31, 2026, to address public hearings, compliance requests, and administrative updates. The Commission approved the minutes from the June 29, 2026 meeting as amended to reflect that member Matthew K. Talbot had recused himself from the Flatiron Energy hearing. The Commission held a continued public hearing on a Notice of Intent filed by Kate Sayre for property at 394 Main Street. The project proposed a dock with floaters under a 30-year Chapter 91 license, a 10-foot by 18-foot addition, a pervious patio, and a 12-foot by 24-foot swimming pool with a retaining wall designed to stay outside a 30-foot town sewer easement and mitigate topography slopes. The Commission voted unanimously to approve the project as presented. The Commission also reviewed a Request for Certificate of Compliance for Derek Rivello at 2442 Riverside Avenue (DEP File #070-0530) regarding a completed dock. Under new business and administrative matters, the Commission noted that Brayton Point would begin generating weekly dust mitigation reports to be shared with members. Commissioners confirmed completion of annual harassment and ethics compliance training. Finally, the Commission scheduled its next regular meeting for September 21, 2026, and noted an upcoming Massachusetts DEP site visit on September 22, 2026, regarding a superseding order for the denied Flatiron Energy ORAD.
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5:48This is a meeting of the Tyler Semisart Conservation Commission calling to order at 6 -3 -4 -7 -8 -6 -7 -8 -9 -7 -8 -7 -9 -9 -9 -9 -9 -9 -9 -9 -9 -9 -9 -9 -9 -9 -9 -9 -9 -9 -9 -9.
6:04The meeting is being recorded and shown live on SATB.
6:19the next order of business is to review and approve the minutes from the previous meeting the minutes of the meeting of June 29 20 26 were emailed to us and are there any questions about the minutes any comments no oh I have one change to make I realized after I accept it I will I'll amend them and you can approve them as amended.
6:43When it came to the Flatiron hearing, I should have made mention that Matt Talbot had recused himself and I didn't, but I'll put that in there. approve them as amended when it came to the Flatiron hearing I should
6:53So I'll entertain a motion to waive the reading of the minutes and to approve as presented. Second. As amended. I moved. And second.
7:05Matt Talbot. Okay. All right. So the next order of visits are the continuation.
7:10All in favor? The next order of this is a continuation of notice of intent filed by Kate Sayre for a dock located at 394 Main Street Sunset Mass work being proposed as a 10 foot by 18 foot addition above existing patio, a 10 foot by 18 pervious patio, a 12 foot by 24 foot pool with a 3 foot pervious paid apron within a 100 foot inner
7:38riparian within a 100 -foot inner riparian, and it proposed two 1 -foot diameter piles, an 8 -foot by 24 -foot float, and to permit an existing 1 -foot by 100 -foot dock and 42 -square -foot floater not previously permitted. So first we'll hear from the applicant, the representative, and then any questions from the commission.
7:59Can you just give them a little replay of how it's going from 3 feet to 4 feet and how all that...
8:24So he had a design for 3 feet. He has to get someone out of Luke Bedford, I don't know his name, and he says to them well they have aluminum. And he says to him, well, I have aluminum, instead of planking, aluminum, more like gangways for the dark, four feet wide. So now he shows up and I don't know if he did the math. I wasn't involved. So he might
8:50have done the math and said, OK, you should be fine. But then what happened is he went to the floaters and then he gave him a bigger floater, too.
8:57Once you get samples of square footage, they triggered it out of simplified license and into the 30 -year license that we're here for you guys tonight with.
9:08So that's the story that I was told. Jack came into our office and said, hey, what are we doing here? How do we clean this mess up? Because he was going to sue the contractor and then try to get him into the damages because if you guys say tear it out, so. You know, the damage is because if you guys say tear it out, you know, someone's going
9:28to be paid. At the end of the day, I think he's better off with a 30 -year license anyway. Yeah, I agree. So the 30 -year license is what we're doing here. It's obviously certainly all allowed on the 30 -year license, so that other license is going to go away. He's going to pay all the new fees to the DEP for a Chapter 91 license for 30 years. That's pretty much it.
9:47He's got a pretty good doc because it's all a loan. So, should have looked pretty good over there. It should look pretty good over there. And then while he's at it, because his dad, there's four boats in play. His dad wants to have a boat there, so rather than put a dock back in Swansea, his dad puts his dock there. They got a couple of boats, and they got lots of boats,
10:08and so they need more than just one floater. That's where you see the two floaters. All allowed under chapter 91. Yeah, there's Cabuccio, right, Cabuccio? There's a couple weeks ago, right? A couple of weeks ago? Yeah.
10:21They were back the last time to do what he's doing now. All right. So this is Kate, actually. Sorry I'm late. I thought you guys were in the building over there. That was the house that was here? Yeah, that was Jack that was here the last minute. So that's the dark aspect. I don't know if folks have any questions on that. I'm fine. There
10:46were some questions about the topography. Yeah, yeah. If we're done with the doc, I'll move on to those. So, um, two things. The commission brought up, which was certainly valid, and we're glad you brought them up. One was, Foster had mentioned the sewer. So we went and got the, uh, plan for 1969. And on the plan now, you see the 30 foot wide easement for the sewer. And you
11:12can see, uh, we did change the pool a little bit. See, we did change the pool a little bit, pushed it slightly back. Oh, okay, and I remember this.
11:18This is where the blocks were going to roll. Correct. And then one of your members said, because of the slope coming off the pool, the retaining wall would be...
11:26That was my sense. Are you? Yeah. So, you know, Jack agreed, so we agreed that. I think the best thing is retaining wall here. Yeah.
11:37Basically encases the pool. We stay out of the easement. We stay out at the easement, the sewer line is actually over here. Correct. So, you know, those are the two main topics that were brought up, so we've satisfied that. Yeah, it makes sense with the retainer all the way around. Absolutely. However, he wants to do it with the forms, the blocks, so... Yep. And it's about a two or three foot drop
11:56from one edge of the pool to the other. Right, right, yeah. I mean, it's probably going to come up anyways. Yeah, rather than sloping the ground. Yeah, that looks stupid. Yep. That's it. And also, I think that's it. Those are the two ladies. Does that satisfy the questions? I'm fine. Yeah. Anybody else have any concerns or questions? No, it makes sense. Okay. So then I'll entertain
12:21a motion to approve the project as presented. Second.
12:28All in favor? Aye. Thank you. Have a good day. Do you have any questions? I'm sorry, did you have any? No, I'm all set. Sorry, I was late. Oh, good. All right, good luck.
12:45Thank you very much. You're welcome.
12:53All right. Thank you.
13:03made by Derek Rivello of 2442 Riverside Aft, Somerset, Mass. For Department of Environmental Protection, file number 070 -0530 for the completion of the dock. Okay, so Jim, I'm going to let you correct me if I'm wrong. They came in in 2021 and filed for a notice of intent for a new home and a dock? It was a tent for a new home and a dock. So they had until 2024 to finish it, and
13:33they did, but they never came back to the certificate of compliance. So that's what they're doing now. Which street is this? Riverside Avenue, 2442 Riverside Avenue. Because we have to get notified when they're done, and folks don't notify us when they're done.
13:48So things, sometimes we mop them up 10 years later, because people just don't know. It would really matter if they wanted to remotage the house
14:17You can see it's pretty much centered. That's the key with the DEP is going to be looking at is when you go to the water, you check them out and take the water. What we're looking at is when you glow the water, you project them out and take the water, and some of the setbacks are 15 typically, so we got 15, you can see it on there, out here, the
14:34radios, so you project your property line out, and then you got 15 and a half and 16 and a half for the floaters, which puts it into components.
14:51I'll start raising them a little bit off by a 10 or two.
14:57Is there a requirement?
15:04Do you guys want to listen? Ah, no, we saw it. We saw that one.
15:43um, after tomorrow there's going to be a weekly report generated from, um, I guess we can call this new business then. After tomorrow there's going to be a weekly report generated from Braden Point on the dust mitigation, and I'll make sure that everybody gets a copy of it each week, okay? and it'll be in the public depository? with rules. So I've never had to use that one, so
16:09I don't know all how it works. but I mean, I can find out when...
16:13Are you going to email us that? I'll email it to you, yeah.
16:19Anything else? That formally signs that took care of the sexual harassment and other trans?
16:25The packet I gave you, and you signed off on it, yes. And then the video links that you told us through the view. Does that cover that? Yes. That signature we just signed? Yeah. Okay. Have you already done it with something else? Okay.
16:36Have you already done it for something else? No, no. Not that one. It's the civil rights, I think, that overlaps.
16:48We have to do it both times. You used to be able to change a signature, but now... Electronic. Yeah, but now you can't. Thank you, Jim.
17:30Can't do it the 7th. I'll be by the 14th. I'll book the 21st.
17:37It's a holiday. I'll be available.
17:42You'll be available? Yes, I must. All right. I would recommend that we schedule the next meeting for September 21st. Is it here that we'll jump off?
17:53It'll be here. September 21st? Well, it'll be here as we speak right now. As we get closer, if something Yes. changes, I'll let everybody know. Just for the record, anything to do with the flat -iron energy is no longer a problem. Oh, okay. Okay, I don't know that we're going to need anything else. They have. There's one. I'm sorry.
18:26So we did yeah I'm sorry yeah um so they we did get an email from them from DEP we're talking about the side we're talking about the side okay for that for the ORAD that was denied so they're going to be coming down to do a site visit in regards to a superseding water on September 22nd I will be there nobody else has to be there but if you if you
18:49want to attend then let me know we won't be able to discuss anything about it but we can just go and watch September 22nd and I can email everybody with the time