Conservation Commission approves riprap fix, closes Lovefield Street file
Easthampton Conservation Commission clears erosion fix, advances Boy Scouts land deal.
Conservation Commission · Meeting of August 10, 2026
Easthampton Conservation Commission clears erosion fix, advances Boy Scouts land deal. Commissioners voted unanimously to install a five-foot-wide riprap strip at Tasty Top Development's Northampton Street site after a three-inch rain event exposed erosion near a stormwater basin, with Commissioner Daniel Buttrick calling riprap "civil engineers' duct tape" before backing it as an interim fix. The panel also unanimously issued a full Certificate of Compliance closing out Haas Home Products' riverfront restoration project at 65 Lovefield Street.
Conservation Agent Eva Gerstle walked members through a draft memorandum of understanding letting Boy Scouts camp overnight on a 16-acre city parcel off Highland Avenue in exchange for trash and invasive-species stewardship, and spent much of the meeting drafting the city's first order of conditions under its new buffer-zone-only wetlands ordinance, for a 450-square-foot artist studio at 26 Nashawannuck Street, requiring 75 percent native-plant survival in its rain garden.
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Source: the Conservation Commission meeting of August 10, 2026, reported from the official video recording and transcript.
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