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TOWN OF LEXINGTON, MASSACHUSETTS CONSERVATION COMMISSION MINUTES Tuesday March 22, 2016 6:30 P.M. Parker Room, Town Office Building 1625 Massachusetts Ave Chair Phil Hamilton opened the meeting at 6:30 pm in the Parker Room of the Town Office Building Commissioners Present: Alex Dohan, Kevin Beuttell, Dick Wolk, Phil Hamilton, Joyce Miller, Duke Bitsko Others Present: Karen Mullins, Conservation Administrator and Casey Hagerty, Conservation Department Assistant 6:30 Update on Enforcement at 55 and 31 Allen Street Attorney William Dailey explained that Mr. Carrol is anxious to work with the commission to come up with a solution. Mr. Dailey gave the commission a photograph of the Allen Street property from 1957 and explained that the area has always been used as a farm. Mr. Rich Kirby, from LEC,, explained to the commission that he did test pits in five locations using an excavator. He provided the commission with a handout explaining the soils he found in each location. The results of the test were mixed between areas of wetland and upland soils. He established that there was a wetland on the south side of the barn, but he stated that this was a small and low functioning wetland. Mr. Kirby stated that the Mr. Carol and Ms. Bina are willing to replicate in another part of the property a wetland twice the size of the wetland he estimated. He proposed creating a meandering stream in the bed of the stream that had been removed and to replicate the wetland within the stream’s 25ft no disturb zone. Some concrete would also be removed and the stonewall would be partially replaced. Questions and comments from the commission: