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<br /> <br />TOWN OF LEXINGTON, MASSACHUSETTS <br />CONSERVATION COMMISSION <br />MINUTES <br />Tuesday, June 18, 2013 <br />7:30 P.M. <br />Parker Room, Town Office Building <br />1625 Massachusetts Avenue <br /> <br /> <br />Commissioner Duke Bitsko opened the meeting at 8:23 pm in the Parker Room of the <br />Town Office Building. <br /> <br />Commissioners Present: Stew Kennedy, Dick Wolk, Jane Warren, and Duke Bitsko <br />(Arrived at 8:22) <br /> <br />Commissioners Absent: Joyce Miller, David Langseth, and Phil Hamilton <br /> <br />Others Present: Karen Mullins, Conservation Administrator and Michelle Tassi, <br />Community Development Department Assistant <br /> <br />8:23 pm Hearing – NOI, Interstate 95 <br /> DEP# 201-902, BL 862 <br />Highway & stormwater management improvements along the 5.4-mile <br />stretch of I-95 within the 100-foot Buffer Zone & 200-foot Riverfront <br />Documentation: NOI Application 5/29/13 <br />Present for the Applicant: Gene Crouch, Vanasse Hangen Brustlin, Inc., <br />Brian Fallon, MassDOT, and four representatives from MassDOT <br /> <br />Mr. Crouch proposed the resurfacing project of I-95. This project will take <br />place from Waltham to the Burlington town line and part of Route 2. <br />Safety improvements will include removing the grass strip dividing the <br />north and southbound lanes, and replacing it with a concrete barrier, and <br />porous pavement north of Route 2a. South of Route 2A drains to the <br />Cambridge Reservoir and the Cambridge Water Department has requested <br />other treatment for the repaved divider there. Mr. Crouch discussed the <br />water quality improvements. The project includes reconstruction of <br />previously installed basins which will improve functionality to provide <br />greater water quality treatment. The paved swale will be removed and <br />replaced with water quality swales with proper soils and check dams. They <br />will construct gravel wetlands, infiltration swales, subsurface infiltration <br />systems, and pocket wetlands to improve water quality. <br /> <br />Comments from the Commission as follows: <br />Mr. Bitsko read the engineering report. Mr. Kennedy was pleased with the <br />informative site visit and water quality improvements. Mr. Kennedy asked <br /> <br />