late October, Driveway in, Footing ready for the Foundation.
Foundation footing was poured on 10/22/2009 and as seen in the photo, it's sitting on stone ledge one foot under the soil. The developer attempted to place his home almost 15 feet on our land at first. Catching this I had him move and may be a reason he became hostile. It was either the drugs or septic. I moved him closer to the mud. His Lot-2 was way too wet, "Wetland" it had an intermittent stream there too which he soon re-routed. Neither we nor the Town were notified of this change. Wetland soils being filled in. This land approved by the Town after 2004 when it was subdivided, it was known and obvious the land was very wet. This is being ignored, we had the chance to buy LOT-2 but chose lot 3 due to lots of water and mud and in August, it was a dry time of the season when I witnessed the mud. As a Certified Septic Installer, I notice things like this. Also, I noticed 4 different locations with completed perc tests on lot 2, so when Derrick came home, he agreed, it was Lot 2 or nothing. Before we go further, more information. There's allot to the story.
- At first KW said I had the choice of buying lot 2 or 3. My son came home from Hawaii, had a job interview and we visited the property and decided it was way to wet to build on and choose lot 2. Pictures below in the Gallery show the wetness.
- I was asked for a "Cash Deposit", I signed for this cash at the bank, $18,000 gave it to Attorney Kevin Walkowski, Developer and 2 days later the trucks roll in, he starts the driveway. went directly through a wetland. See pictures in the gallery. As the trucks drop the loads, I'm told a complaint was filed for going through a wetland but no one shows up. Loads were dropped for 3 days.
- While the driveway was constructed, I built our stone wall, brought in a dozer to clean up our lower logging road. See pic's below with descriptions.
- NOTE, When the Developer saw my dozer, I was instructed, do not touch the field, it was just graded, pitched for water runoff.
- I groomed the logging road below with my dozer and helped remove rock for the wall which had been destroyed over the years and buried in the dirt. See Pic's below.
Photo Gallery
Picture #1 Days before the home footing, you can see the mud where they raised the land to stop effluent flows from the pond and divert all water going to the rear wetland.
This was an unapproved change, witnessed every day by the Town and as the new owners, as abuters, no notice was given to us by the DEP or Conservation Commision for filling in wetlands or diverting streams. Conservation igno
Picture #2 The driveway raised by 3 to 4 feet, with a secret permit the CC won't talk about. The pond dug out.
All water now drains to the left property line re-routed from the swamp areas. All water used to flow past the pond and join a brook.
Picture #3 What is seen in this picture is the land graded, cut so flows go between the two lots. Lot line is the stone on the right. The mud is from the old wetland being covered. The Conservation Commission never showed up but Town workers would drive by as witness daily, sometimes twice. The water supply, is an underground stream to the right of the driveway entrance which was plugged up.
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Picture #4 While working on Lot 1, the contractor told CH later as witness that Lot 3 almost whole area would flood into a big swampy area then run off the mountain in the Intermittent Stream. The unused Culvert , under date stamp sits next to our property markers. The wetland is obvious, there were no flows all summer and the ground still wet. and The home will be placed almost center of this
Picture #5 Now on the same day 10/17 CH drives forward 20 feet to snap a picture of the added slope to raise the land so the water would now run on our property. As all his wetland was filled in, he said I want a nice looking lawn here. He routed the water between properties to be dumped over the mountain instead of joining the Intermittent stream, the way it was. Conservation again sent no notic
Picture#6 The driveway now stopped. The water overflows the pond due to rain runoff and runs towards DH's Lot 2. Foundation hole bulldozed. 10/17/2009 land is raised again to stop the flow to the old stream. Erosion taking place noticeable in the blow up pictures.
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