As many of you know, the town received a Farmington River Enhancement Grant last year from the Connecticut Department of Environmental Protection. The purpose of this grant is to study “Low Impact Development” (LID) practices as a means of protecting the Farmington River watershed and the town's water quality. As part of the grant, the town appointed an advisory committee to help manage the grant and its scope of work, which includes a biodiversity study and the potential development of improved zoning and wetlands regulations.
A few weeks ago, all residents received a letter from me describing the grant, and property owners who own land that the committee selected for the biodiversity study received a second letter. On January 11, we held the first of two informational meetings for residents and property owners to inform them of the activities that are planned to be conducted under the grant.
A second meeting will be held this Wednesday, January 20 at 7:00 PM in the Barkhamsted Elementary School. Everyone is welcome to attend and we certainly will try to address issues that were raised at the first meeting. I particularly hope that those individuals who were unable to attend the first meeting can make this one.
For more information, please take a look at the town's website, which has the draft presentation and contractual documents for the study. The page dedicated to the study is at this link - "low impact development advisory committee".
I hope you can make the meeting.
Regards,
Don