CHILMARK CONSERVATION COMMISSION
EMERGENCY MEETING MINUTES Post Hurricane Irene
Tuesday, August 30, 11 a.m.
FINAL
Present: Commissioners Dick Smith, Wes Cottle, Sandy Broyard, Donald Poole, Richard Steves, Pam Goff, Kaitlin Jones. Also present Natalie Conroy, applicant. Remy - Vineyard Gazette, Donald J. Campbell.
The commissioners met briefly before a site visit to 22 Greenhouse Lane, Natalie Conroy’s property. There we viewed the erosion caused by Hurricane Irene. The smaller house is very close to the edge of the bank and is liable to fall onto the beach if the undercut bank gives way in a rain storm. The larger house’s deck is on the edge of the undercut bank. There is very little room between the houses and the right of way that runs behind them, less than 20 feet. Ms. Conroy proposes to have Dale Mc Clure of Watercourse Construction Inc. move the smaller house by crane to the parking lot to the east of the main house. It is understood that the crane will operated from the parking area.
The commissioners met with the shellfish warden at Hariph’s Creek landing and went to look at the power boat “Ivy” which had washed ashore quite high on the beach by Ryerson’s Island on Nashaquitsa. Mr. Mc Clure had proposed digging the boat out. It turned out that at high tide he will not need to dig but will turn the boat by means of a sling attached to his crane and back his barge out to slide the boat to deeper water. It was noted that the boat had landed in prime shellfish habitat and that someone had run the engine and the propeller had disturbed eel grass with “prop dredging”. The shellfish warden concurred that, now that the idea of digging had been abandoned, the proposed activity seemed to be the least damaging to the area.
The Commission returned to the town hall and held a meeting to issue Emergency Certification for the two proposed activities.
22 Greenhouse Lane
After considerable discussion and clarification by Natalie Conroy that the two buildings were to be moved to temporary locations and will have no foundations, and that the larger building will have steel beams put under it but may not be moved unless the bank appears to be giving way, the commission moved, seconded and voted that the work be allowed as an emergency. The vote was: That the small building may be lifted by a crane and moved to the parking lot on the East of the lot. The larger building will have steel beams put below it and, if necessary, will be moved by crane, toward the right of way on the north of its present location. Dale Mc Clure will do the work. Special conditions were that the septic tank be pumped.
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Removing the “Ivy”
The commission moved, seconded and voted to allow the activity proposed by Watercourse Construction to put a sling on the “Ivy” and tow it off of the beach.
Special conditions were: No digging in the salt marsh and no more “prop wash” by the “Ivy”.
Meeting adjourned at 12:45.
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