HomeMy WebLinkAboutComment letter Jones FW_ TJA Clean Energy Request for DeterminationFrom: Karle, Darcy
Sent: Tuesday, February 13, 2024 8:21 AM
To: Cavanaugh, Kimberly
Subject: Comment le er Jones FW: TJA Clean Energy Request for
Determina on
A achments: Wetlands Map Cody.pdf; Topo Contours Cody.pdf; Topo Hillshade
Cody.pdf; Image.jpg
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HI Kim,
Please forward this comment le er to the Commissioners and place in the file mee ng materials.
Thank you
From: Cody Jones <29cjones@gmail.com>
Sent: Monday, February 12, 2024 4:28 PM
To: Karle, Darcy <Darcy.Karle@town.barnstable.ma.us>
Subject: TJA Clean Energy Request for Determina on
Dear Ms. Karle, Please forward to the Conserva on Commission at your earliest convenience. Thank
you.
COMM Conserva on Commission
Dear Commissioners,
My name is Cody Jones, I reside at 111 Mockingbird Lane, a direct abu er of 810 Wakeby Road. I am
reaching out with concerns with the proposed TJA Solar project at 810 Wakeby Road with rela on to
groundwater and wetland protec on. A ached you will find topography maps and arial photographs
taken from the backyards of Anne Salas, Mary Burkinshaw, and Jennifer Lannon on Mockingbird Lane.
On the wetlands map you will find a recognized wetland owned by the Long Pond Farms Associa on
at an eleva on of 69 feet. The deepest por ons of the parcel at 810 Wakeby lie at an eleva on of 57
feet, a difference of 12 feet. The parcel at 810 Wakeby normally has standing water in those low areas
and has been a empted to be filled in with dredgings from the Mashpee River in the winter of 2021-
22 following yet another deforesta on opera on in the summer of 2021. The delineated wetland area
off of Dove Lane resides within 100 feet of the property line of the 810 Wakeby parcel.
The town bought the Hayden Wellfield property to protect a groundwater aquifer that supplies
drinking water to over 30,000 residents. This project poses a direct threat to safe drinking water to my
family and many others.
In addi on, the property at 810 Wakeby did not comply with the rules set by the town over 20 years
ago following the excava on. The angle of repose for the sides of the pit were never corrected and are
well beyond the 33 degree safe angle. Also, the owner was ordered to allow the natural vegeta on to
regrow. Periodically the owner cutdown or dug out any vegeta on that grew in the parcel, most
recently in 2021.
I humbly request your considera on to deny this project from moving forward to preserve Barnstable
wetlands and keep providing safe drinking water for my family, neighbors, and other families in
Sandwich, Marstons Mills, and Cotuit.
Thank you,
Cody Jones
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