Core Team notes 10-3-14

CORE 10-1-14

Friday, October 03, 2014

9:00 AM

9:10    Discuss the Lazorchak Dilemma

o    Moving to Wilcox & Barton in Moretown.  Several offices throughout New England.

Maybe there will be a small invoice from McCain to close out that arrangement and possibly a new contract with the same format from Moretown.
 

9:25   Draft schedule Peter’s deliverables (best guess)

o    Peter Monroz thinks the wetlands will be cost prohibitive unless we can get relief from the state's design flows for a school.  Trying to submit historical data to state as a justification.  There is only very sketchy data from Dave Warren but the school has started recording again.

o    In our favor is the fact that the wetlands are above and beyond the state requirements.  So perhaps there will be some leniency.

o    We should have a handle on the design flows that will be used within a few weeks.  Bill Reed wants them to rough scope the size and cost of the project.

o    Kin inquired about the use of this project for teaching and wondered what size was appropriate for that.

o    Big Question: If the soils are so good that we don't even need the wetland treatment, what is the appropriate resource use ($$) to meet Yestermorrow goals...which are educational and  "doing the right thing".  Andres was reluctant to "throw out numbers" as to square footage but the leach field will be designed for boarding school flows so that's pretty large (100gal/day).  Bill Reed offered 1-2sqft/gallon/day as a rule of thumb.

9:35   Discuss Andreas’ deliverables and how they are contingent on the WW design

o    Stormwater design and daylighting the stream is his focus.  Kin was wondering about the ownership of document part of the contract.  She wants access to the design documents for educational purposes and Andres gave verbal assurances that this would be fine.

o    Because the WW is so integral to the site development, they are waiting for direction from that area before moving the stormwater mitigation.

o    Stream daylighting is where he has been focused.  He wants to get his recent work before the ANR and arrange a site visit from Dept. of Wetlands.  He also wants to engage in a discussion with river management.  Kin endorses this enthusiastically.  Shannon Morrison from wetlands has been out previously as part of the Tracker Project but she might not have looked at the stream.

o    There are two culverts.  They are proposing the removal of the larger uphill pipe but keeping the lower pipe in place as an overflow.  Alternatively, we could discuss removing the lower pipe but first we would want to reach out to the neighbor.  Kate will contact the property owners about removing the lower pipe.

We closed out by talking about how this could work with fund raising.