The Marion Conservation Commission voted Jonathan and Jill Castle an Amended Order of Conditions for their thrice-amended project at 406 Point Road.
Representative Rick Charon described the project as “fits and starts,” noting the discovery of structural issues with the house resulting in a reinvention of the project to raze the house and rebuild.
The final plan extends the level area at the rear of the house as part of a previously amended scope to raze and rebuild the remaining two-story portion of the original house and relocate and install a new septic system.
Charon said that once it was determined the house would be a teardown and a new construction, the Board of Health rescinded a previously granted variance that would have allowed a repair job without replacement of a five-year-old Title 5 septic system. The Board of Health went back to its bylaw requiring a new system with denitrification technology.
The new denitrification system, said Charon, will require two tanks and two filters as dictated by the number of bedrooms (five) in the new house. Charon said the 800 cubic yards of fill going into the property is, in his opinion, less detrimental than the old septic system.
Vice Chairman Emil Assing, running the meeting in the absence of Chairman Jeff Doubrava, asked what would happen to the old septic system. Charon said the tank would be crushed and backfilled.
In other business, a request for comment to the Zoning Board of Appeals regarding the case of Carlos and Jennifer Varum at 534D Point Road was quick to arrive at an agreement between Assing and Walsh that the case is jurisdictional to the Conservation Commission.
Walsh recalled a question as to the nature of a stream in the flood zone and a wetland to the north end of the lot. The commissioners are recommending a filing.
The next meeting of the Marion Conservation Commission is scheduled for Wednesday, March 13, at 7:00 pm at the Police Station on Route 6.
Marion Conservation Commission
By Mick Colageo