The plan shall be drawn to a scale of one inch equals 40 feet.
All profiles shall be drawn to a scale of one inch equals eight feet.
The Board of Selectmen, after study, may make such corrections and
revisions as it deems advisable in the public interest.
In approving the plan, the Board of Selectmen will require that
the land shall be suitable for the removal of earth without danger
to health and life and that proper steps are taken so as not to hinder
or endanger traffic on public ways. The Board of Selectmen may require,
at its discretion, that police control of the traffic be provided
by the applicant at his or her expense. Only when the Selectmen find
affirmatively that no public hazard or nuisance will result will they
approve a plan for the removal of earth where intentions are shown
for excavation below the level of an adjacent already-existing public
way.
All work shall be done in accordance with the following specifications:
A. Trees are to be cut (not bulldozed).
B. All trees and brush are to be chipped on the site, unless removed
for commercial purposes. Stumps are to be either chipped on the site
or removed in accordance with DEP regulations.
C. All loam and subsoil must be bulldozed into piles for future respreading, except that loam and subsoil lying below proposed impervious surfaces on a site may be removed in accordance with the provisions of this Article
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D. Earth may be removed only to contours as specified by the Board of
Selectmen. In earth removal areas, ledge shall not be left exposed
above the approved grade, and boulders, when encountered, shall be
buried at least such that their tops are four feet below the approved
grade, and in the event that ledge is encountered prior to reaching
the approved grade, a revision of the approved grade plan must be
immediately obtained.
E. After the earth has been removed from the first five-acre grid, and
before proceeding to the next five-acre grid, excavation shall be
graded to the approved grade and all loam and subsoil shall then be
respread over the excavation, except in such areas as are required
in subsequent operations.
F. Rye grass shall be seeded on this reloamed area at the rate of 200
pounds per acre.
G. Fingerling fir, white pine or other approved trees shall be planted
over the entire area, five to six feet on centers.
H. Upon completion and approval by the Board of Selectmen of the five-acre
grid, the security may be released in part or in whole or it may be
advanced to the next grid.
"Earth," as used in this Article, shall include all material,
fragmental or otherwise, normally composing part of the surface of
the globe, excluding water.