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HomeMy WebLinkAboutWetland resource delineation rpt_205 Seapuit Osterville_vMME6Jan25MARSH MATTERS ENVIRONMENTAL WETLAND RESOURCE AREA ID / DELINEATION REPORT Version 12.20.2024 FIRM REQUESTING SERVICES: TIGHE & BOND PRIMARY CONTACT: Sean Riley, PE PROJECT SITE LOCATION: 205 Seapuit Avenue, Osterville Assessors Reference: 095 / 013 / 002 (see attached Barnstable GIS site locus figure) PROPERTY OWNER(S): Samra & Pearson (Whileaway Realty Trust) PROPERTY STATUS: Developed (single-family residence) DATE OF SITE VISIT(S): 18 November 2024 MME STAFF: D. Michael Ball, Sr. Wetland Scientist WEATHER CONDITIONS: 59°F – clear – no recent precipitation PURPOSE OF VISIT: Wetland RA ID and delineation (geographically isolated basin depression) PROPOSED PROJECT TYPE: residential redevelopment (currently underway) DESKTOP REVIEW FIELDWORK PREP: Google Earth aerial photography MassGIS MassDEP Wetland and Hydrography data layers (MassMapper) USGS Topographic Quadrangle DFW Natural Heritage & Endangered Species Program mapping Town GIS mapping Federal Emergency Management Agency Flood Insurance Rate Maps US Department of Agriculture-NRCS Web Soil Survey CLIENT-PROVIDED DOCUMENTS: “DRAFT Proposed Tree and Shrub Plan” by MCL Design LLC. 10.31. 2024 WRAs IDENTIFIED / PRESENT: Vegetated Wetland, Ch. 237 §13 “Any area of at least 500 square feet where surface or ground water, or ice, at or near the surface of the ground support a plant community dominated (at least 50 percent) by wetland species.” WRAs DELINEATED / MARKED: Vegetated Wetland ASSOCIATED WATERWAY/WATERBODY: No associated waterway MAPPED RARE SPECIES HABITAT: No Estimated Habitat or Priority Habitat present on this site BOUNDARY FLAG SERIES ESTABLISHED: Blue flags on oak stakes marked IVW-01 to -06 (partial boundary keeping flagging off abutting property) PHOTO-DOCUMENTATION COLLECTED: Yes FIELDNOTES COLLECTED: Field book MME-9 / pages 118-119 FIELD DATA COLLECTED: Yes – field data form set attached FOLLOW-UP: 11.18.24: Let T&B survey lead know that fieldwork was complete and the start and stop flag numbers MARSH MATTERS ENVIRONMENTAL WETLAND RESOURCE AREA ID / DELINEATION REPORT Version 12.20.2024 METHODOLOGY: (Resources Utilized / Referenced) Fieldwork performed in substantial accordance with the following: APPLICABLE REGULATIONS: Massachusetts Wetlands Protection Act (“MWPA”)(M.G.L. c.131 §40) MWPA Regulations (310 CMR 10.00 et seq.) Town of Barnstable Wetlands Bylaw and Regulations (Chapter 237) WETLAND DELINEATION: MME performs wetland resource area (WRA) identification and delineations in substantial accordance with the following publications: the Massachusetts Wetlands Protection Act and the implementing MWPA regulations (310 CMR 10.00 et seq.); the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection’s (MassDEP) Massachusetts Handbook for Delineation of Bordering Vegetated Wetlands (2022); Section 404 of the Clean Water Act (33 U.S.C. 1344)(if applicable); and the U.S. Army Corp of Engineers (USACE) Wetland Delineation Manual (1987)(if applicable). When performing WRA identification and delineations, MME uses a methodology involving consideration of (1) plant community compositions and transitions between plant communities, (2) observed topographic changes in the landscape, (3) indicators of wetland hydrology, including evidence of extent of standing or flowing water in nearby waterbody or waterway, (4) the presence/absence of certain sub-surface soil morphological indicators (i.e., redoximorphic features) that confirm the presence, or absence, and approximate elevation of groundwater in the soil profile (relative to the ground surface) during a portion of the growing season, and (5) any evident land alterations. MME marks WRA boundaries with numbered tape flagging, or stakes, and typically collects a set of photographs that document on-site conditions on the day(s) of fieldwork. Entrance onto abutting property is usually incidental and often necessary in order to complete fieldwork and MME assumes that this entry, as well as establishment of wetland boundary flagging, has either been pre-approved, or is otherwise acceptable by the subject property owner and/or property abutters. PLANTS - WETLAND INDICATOR STATUS: 2020 Sub-Regional Wetland Plant List – Northeast and North Central U.S. SOILS: Field Indicators for Identifying Hydric Soils in New England Version 4 (2019) Munsell Soil Color Book (2009 year revised I 2019 Production) DEGREE OF OBSERVED ALTERATION: Understory woody and herbaceous vegetation removal. Top / surface layer of leaf litter and organic material removed. Some amount of topsoil (A horizon) disturbed. Recently fallen leaf litter provides coverage of altered soil surface. MARSH MATTERS ENVIRONMENTAL WETLAND RESOURCE AREA ID / DELINEATION REPORT Version 12.20.2024 SOIL PROFILE OBSERVATIONS: As the plant community in the subject area (the southeast corner of the property) was significantly altered and some amount (between 2 and 6 inches possibly) of the soil surface layer was disturbed (by mechanical means), observing sub-surface soil profiles along a linear transect was necessary to identify the wetland boundary. MME extended a linear transect of approximately forty (40) feet in length from the center of the basin depression (i.e., point of observed lowest relative ground elevation) to a point directly upslope. Along this transect MME excavated seven soil profile observation holes located approximately five to seven feet apart (using a shovel and soil auger). Soil profiles exhibiting hydric soil characteristics were noted in the first four observation holes (including the hole at the center of the basin depression) and profiles exhibiting upland / non-hydric soil characteristics were noted in the three holes nearest the upland end of the transect. Each soil observation hole was staked and flagged and numbered with either a green flag (signifying hydric soil) or an orange flag (signifying a non-hydric soil). Along the transect the wetland boundary was set between the most landward hydric soil location and the first upland soil location. The rest of the wetland boundary was marked using blue-flagged stakes along roughly the same land elevation. OBSERVED PLANT COMMUNITIES: Wooded uplands – mixed oak-pitch pine forested community type PLANT SPECIES OBSERVED IN UPLAND and TRANSITION ZONE: Scarlet oak (Quercus coccinea), white oak (Quercus alba), red maple (Acer rubrum), pitch pine (Pinus rigida), American holly (Ilex opaca), black cherry (Prunus serotina), easter red cedar (Juniperus virginiana), poison ivy (Toxicodendron radicans), horsebriar (Smilax rotundifolia). (This list is based on a limited recording of species occurrence observed within certain upland areas) PLANT SPECIES OBSERVED IN WETLAND and TRANSITION ZONE: Red maple, white oak, pitch pine, southern arrowwood (Viburnum dentatum), cinnamon fern (Osmunda cinnamomea), horsebrier, poison ivy – (This list is based on a limited recording of species occurrence observed within the wetland area)(As the area observed has woody understory removed, or otherwise altered, there may be other wetland-indicator plant species present.) OBSERVED INVASIVE PLANT SPECIES: Only multiflora rose (Rosa multiflora), Morrow’s honeysuckle (Lonicera morrowii), Japanese honeysuckle (L. japonica), and Asiatic bittersweet (Celastrus orbiculatus) were noted in relatively small amounts. CONSERVATION COMMISSION JURISDICTION: All area within one-hundred feet of established isolated wetland boundary is within Conservation Commission jurisdiction. MISC. OBSERVATIONS: ATTACHMENTS: MassDEP Wetland Determination Form set, site locus figure, four photographs. FIGURE 1 – BARNSTABLE GIS SITE LOCUS MAP 205 SEAPUIT ROAD, OSTERVILLE, MASSACHUSETTS MARSH MATTERS ENVIRONMENTAL THE LOCATIONS OF ALL FEATURES DRAWN ON THIS FIGURE ARE APPROXIMATE Limit of observations area Existing isolated wetland located here Soil profile observation transect MMEnvironmental PHOTOGRAPH LOG Project / Client: TIGHE & BOND Location: 205 SEAPUIT ROAD, OSTERVILLE Project No. Photo No. 1 Date: 11.18.2024 Photo Aspect: SOUTHEAST Description: CONDITIONS IN SOUTHEAST CORNER OF SUBJECT PROPERTY. FALLEN LEAF LITTER FROM DECIDUOUS TREES COVERS AREAS DISTURBED BY LAND MANAGEMENT ACTIVITIES. Photo No. 2 Date: 11.18.2024 Photo Aspect: WEST Description: VIEW TO CENTRAL AREA OF ISOLATED, SHALLOW BASIN DEPRESSION. LOCATION OF 40-FT LINEAR TRANSECT ALONG WHICH SEVEN SOIL PROFILES WERE OBSERVED. GREEN-FLAGGED STAKES MARK HYDRIC SOIL LOCATIONS AND ORANGE- FLAGGED STAKES MARK NON-HYDRIC SOIL LOCATIONS. MMEnvironmental Photo No. 4 Date: 11.18.2024 Photo Aspect: SOUTHEAST Description: WETLAND BOUNDARY WAS SET BETWEEN THE HYDRIC SOIL OBSERVATION AND THE NON-HYDRIC SOIL OBSERVATION. THE BOUNDARY WAS MARKED USING NUMBERD, BLUE- FLAGGED “IVW” STAKES, PHOTOGRAPH LOG Project / Client: TIGHE & BOND Location: 205 SEAPUIT ROAD, OSTERVILLE Project No. Photo No. 3 Date: 11.18.2024 Photo Aspect: NORTHEAST Description: VIEW FROM CENTRAL AREA OF ISOLATED, SHALLOW BASIN DEPRESSION TOWARDS THE ABUTTING UPLAND AREA. LOCATION OF 40-FT LINEAR TRANSECT ALONG WHICH SEVEN SOIL PROFILES WERE OBSERVED. GREEN-FLAGGED STAKES MARK HYDRIC SOIL LOCATIONS AND ORANGE- FLAGGED STAKES MARK NON- HYDRIC SOIL LOCATIONS.