= Town of Pelham, NH<= span style=3D'font-size:14.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt'>=

Pelham Conservation Commission<= /o:p>

6 Villag= e Green

Pelham, NH 03076-3723

MEETING OF 9/19/07 = ; &n= bsp; = ; APPROVED 12/12/07

Members Present: &n= bsp; = ; &n= bsp; = ;

Paul Gagnon, Karen MacKay, Paul Dadak,

Lisa Loosigian, Glennie Edwards (Alt)

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Chairman Paul Gagnon brought the meeting to order at <= st1:time Hour=3D"19" Minute=3D"35" w:st=3D"on">7:35 p.m.

OLD BUSINESS:

Map 4, Lot 9-= 138 – Marie Stadtmiller (Portner), Tallant Road – Case continued. There had been a joint meeting between the ZBA, Planning Board and Conservation Commission regarding a proposal to do a “conservation sub-division” on this property.<= span style=3D'mso-spacerun:yes'> Member Dadak reported that the ZBA= did not support the variance/waivers for the frontage on 9 of the 12 lots. The case came in front of the Plan= ning Board as a more conventional plan, requiring 4 small wetlands crossing, sti= ll having 12 build able lots.

A site walk is to be conducted by the Conservation Commission on Sa= turday, October 6, 2007 at 8:30 a.m. Member Edwar= ds will contact Jen at the planning office so that Joe Maynard and J.R. Gauthi= er can be notified about the site walk.

PRESENTATION: Mark West of West Environmental presented his report on the prime wetland study for 2007. This = study has been ongoing for 2-3 years now. He is now before the Commission to get some better direction from the Conservation Commission and to perhaps take a step back and look at the big= ger picture of the town and the inventory of its wetlands. When he started the work he ordered stereo aerial photography from 2004. Some of the photography of the town was from 1991. Mr. West reports that there are be= tween 71 and 72 wetlands in Pelham. No one wetland stands out to him he said, but one that deserves looking at is = east of the upper Golden Brook Wetland, which is an existing prime wetland and t= hen there are several other wetlands that he previously looked at. Mr. West said that Planning Direct= or Jeff Gowan is in the process of getting some upgraded wetland maps for the = town from NRPC. Member MacKay has been working with Jeff in the preparation of t= he map overlays. What Mr. West w= ould like to do based on the Commission’s input, is a real inventory map e= ven though there won’t be any field work done on them. This would help to make the decisi= on of what we want to do for 2007-2008. If we have a completed inventory map it would benefit the Commission= in the future for going forward for all of our wetlands. Mr. West does not believe that an inventory of the wetlands has ever been done. Mr. Gagnon asked what is it that w= e are trying to accomplish. He said= we don’t just want to get knowledge for the sake of having knowledge jus= t to know what all the prime wetlands are; I’m going to say for the moment= , it isn’t any good to us unless we are going to do something with that information. Mr. Gagnon said = unless there is another “no brainer” right behind this lower Beaver Br= ook no-brainer, then it sounds like we should do the inventory with the thought being that we can apply that information when we are doing sub-division rev= iews and we can use it as sort of a guiding star and for what wetlands we declar= e as prime wetlands in the future. Mr. West said there is newer information coming along, the coverage he has right now is from photos that were taken in 1991. He said a lot has happened in Pelh= am since 1991. Putting the infor= mation on the 2005 photography is not a big expense to do this work. He will be talking with Jeff Gowan= as it may be able to be done by NRPC as part of their services that they provide = us. Mr. West said if that is not possi= ble then the people that he works with can provide this for about $600.00. He said that is not using a ton of= our budget to do some big planning. Then some decisions can be made of whether we want to link up some existing prime wetlands, is that one of our goals or do we want to go after= the next largest wetlands and how many we could afford to do based on the budge= ts over this year and next year. Do we want to focus on the large stream systems because they’re important as far as flowing into these prime wetlands?&= nbsp; Another question is whether we want to focus on systems that may have rare plant communities. Mr. W= est said he cannot give a price on doing any work until an inventory is done and he knows what the size of these wetlands are.

Mr. Gagnon said if I hear you right we can get that ma= p by the next meeting for $600.00. Mr. West answered yes if he could do it with his consultant. Mr. Gagnon said you’re assum= ing NRPC can’t do it for us. Mr. West said if they can’t, and he’s not assuming they can’t= , if they can and they have monies put aside to do environmental mapping which is what Jeff (Gowan) indicated to him then he would have to show NRPC what he = has and show them what he wants. = Mr. West said that we have a contract/budget and he is willing to merge some of= his money/time into the regional planning commission if it’s cheaper to d= o it that way.

MOTION (Gagnon/Edwards): To have Mark West work with Jeff G= owan and NRPC to create a wetlands inventory map that we can use for the basis of our prime wetlands work through the end of 2009. VOTE: 5-0 in favor.

OTHER: M= ark West of West Environmental delivered his report to document the evaluation of Wetland #41, lower Beaver Brook, within the Town of <= st1:place w:st=3D"on">Pelham, NH. This booklet is a follow-up study = to the previous studies conducted in 1987 and 2000. West Environmental recommends Wetl= and #41 be nominated as a prime wetland candidate for designation by Pelham to = the NHDES Wetlands Bureau. After = review of the booklets by members of the Conservation Commission they will be delivered to the appropriate boards/agencies, i.e., Board of Selectmen, NH DES Wetlands Bureau. Mr. West’s recommendation includes: R= 20;The Pelham Conservation Commission should engage the Pelham Planning Board in t= his process and a warrant article should be crafted per RSA 482-A:15 for local Prime Wetland Designation.”

OTHER: Correspondence has been received from Attorney DeCarolis asking that= he be put on our next agenda as he has more or new information on the parcel of land at 32-34 Tenney Road<= /st1:address>. Chairman Gagnon will confer with t= he planning director to see what criteria we use in re-hearing this case. Member Dadak said he didn’t = recall that this case had come before the planning board as yet.

Site Walk on Saturday, October 6 at 8:30 a.m. for: Map 4, Lot 9-138 – Marie Stadtmiller (Portner), <= st1:address w:st=3D"on">Tallant Road, and 32-34 Tenney Road. Parties to be notified through= the planning department are J.R. Gauthier, Peter Zohdi and Attorney DeCarolis.<= span style=3D'mso-spacerun:yes'>

MINUTES:<= span style=3D'mso-spacerun:yes'> Minutes approved of 8/15/07.

Meeting adjourned at 9:25 p.m.

&nbs= p; &= nbsp; &nbs= p; &= nbsp; &nbs= p; &= nbsp; Respectfully submitted,

&nbs= p; &= nbsp; &= nbsp; &nbs= p; &= nbsp; &nbs= p; Glennie Edwards, Recording Secretary