Rehoboth Conservation Commission Continues Palmer River Subdivision Hearing to August 19

REHOBOTH -- July 22, 2014, Rehoboth Conservation Commission continues four-lot subdivision hearing and clears septic repair near wetland. The commission on Tuesday voted to continue the public hearing on the Palmer River subdivision to August 19, 2014, while the town's peer-review engineer, Fuss and O'Neill, finishes its written evaluation of revised stormwater plans submitted by project engineer Stevie Cabala of Thompson-Farlan. Cabala told commissioners the redesigned drainage system, replacing a sediment forebay with a grass channel, a pre-treatment forebay, and check dams, now achieves 50 percent total suspended solids removal before the infiltration basin and more than 90 percent after it, exceeding the required 44 percent threshold. In a separate matter, the commission voted unanimously to issue a Negative Determination 3 for engineer Ed Kingman's proposed septic repair on an existing residential lot, finding that the project, where the leaching field sits 60 feet from the wetland boundary and the septic tank occupies its existing footprint, does not require a Notice of Intent. The commission also designated two members as authorized document signatories and returned a no-opposition response to the Planning Board on a proposed common driveway serving three lots.