The Jaffrey Conservation Commission has reached a consensus for a remediation plan for further violations found at the Stony Brook development, an approved 28-house development on Route 124 adjacent to the Shattuck Golf Course.

The commission met Sept. 3 to conduct a site walk on the property, and again on Wednesday in an off-schedule meeting to discuss remediation efforts for the additional violations.

The Stony Brook development has already been under scrutiny for violations that include removing at least 70 trees and 10,000 square feet of soil from areas either outside of the property lines, or within wetland buffers. The Conservation Commission met in June to discuss the violations, and at that meeting noted that since the first review of the property, there had been additional violations found, including encroachment on the opposite side of the property, near Stony Brook, and an illegal road leading to a pump house on Shattuck Golf property, which in part touches a wetland conservation area.

During the site walk on Tuesday, the Conservation Commission reviewed the additional violations, including the road.

Conservation Commission Chair Tom Ahlborn-Hsu said during Wednesday’s meeting that the original thought of the board was that the leaving the road in place would be the least-damaging option, but members have come to a compromise solution that will reconfigure the road to remove it from the wetland buffer, while leaving the majority of it in place.

“I think we came up with a good solution,” Ahlborn-Hsu said.

The board also discussed the issue of a planned conduit that would run to the pump house. The approved development plan for Stony Brook requires that all conduits be buried. The Conservation Commission recommended that developers amend that plan to allow overhead conduits just for the purposes of reaching the pump house, noting that it would allow for a pole to be placed in the wetland conservation area, as it would be a less-damaging option than burying it and avoid having to bury several hundred extra feet of cable if developers were to have to avoid the conservation area.

“I think that’s a reasonable compromise,” Ahlborn-Hsu said. “It’s by far the less damaging option and it doesn’t interfere with anyone’s views. This is a win-win for everyone. It solves the problem, doesn’t cost crazy amounts of money, and is the least damaging to what’s there.”

The commission further agreed to a plan that the wetland area near the pump house be reloamed and replanted with a suitable plant mix. That work was directed to be done by NativeScapes, a company already hired to do remediation work on the other areas of the site where tree cutting had been identified.

Related to the encroachment on the side of the property adjacent to Stony Brook, the commission discussed that cutting and removal of soil had reduced a portion of the area to silt that could wash into the brook.

The commission directed the area must be reloamed and also replanted with suitable vegetation. This work will also be done by NativeScapes.

NativeScapes had previously bid $87,500 for the remediation of identified encroachments. Ahlborn-Hsu clarified that that bid did not include reloaming and replanting either the area disturbed by the illegal road, or the encroachment near Stony Brook. He said the town would direct the company to evaluate those areas and come up with an additional quote to restore those areas, with the cost to be paid by the developer.

Ashley Saari can be reached at 603-924-7172, Ext. 244 or asaari@ledgertranscript.com. She’s on X @AshleySaariMLT.