[CPEO-MEF] Quonset Point trails

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Wetlands issue gone; trails get go-ahead

By Nat Binns
North Kingstown Standard Times (RI)
December 2, 2004

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NORTH KINGSTOWN - Wetlands issues that could have prevented the creation 
of trails at Calf Pasture Point - a waterfront area in the Quonset 
industrial park - have been resolved, according to Brian Kent, a 
landscape architect designing improvements to the area.

Kent, head of Brian Kent Associates, said the Coastal Resources 
Management Council (CRMC) agreed to allow the town to build trails 
affecting 1.5 acres of wetlands if 3 acres were mitigated in another 
part of Calf Pasture Point.

Kent said he will work with R.I. DEM to build channels to carry salt 
water to the wetlands in the northern part of the site. This will kill 
the phragmites (an invasive grass that thrives in stagnant water and 
crows out more beneficial grasses) covering the wetlands, and allow the 
more desireable vegetation to receive sunlight and reemerge, Kent said.

…

Cohen said the town would ask the Navy to contribute because the trails 
would provide access to wells the Navy must monitor for contamination. 
Because a Navy base existed on the site, the wells must be monitored 
every nine months.

…

For the entire article, see
http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?BRD=1715&dept_id=73974&newsid=13467678&PAG=461&rfi=9

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Lenny Siegel
Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
c/o PSC, 278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
http://www.cpeo.org



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