Any person who desires to remove and/or process
earth products shall submit a written application for a special permit
to the Planning Board. Each application shall be accompanied by plans
and specifications prepared by a registered professional engineer
or registered professional land surveyor as follows:
A. A plan of the area from which removal is proposed
and a strip at least 150 feet wide surrounding said area, showing
all man-made features, lot lines, names of abutters, zoning boundaries,
vegetation cover, soil characteristics and existing topography;
B. A plan of the area showing the finished grade and
treatment of the site after the proposed completion of the excavation
hereinafter called the restoration plan;
C. All adjacent roads, public or private, their elevations
and established grades;
D. Natural features, including:
(1) All wetlands on the locus and their respective elevations;
(2) One-hundred-year floodplain boundaries, if within
the site locus;
(3) Water table elevations as determined by soil evaluation,
test pits and soil borings;
E. Existing and proposed contours at maximum ten-foot
intervals;
F. The estimated quantity of materials to be removed
and topsoil to be stripped and replaced;
G. Distance to all public water supply wells within 1/2
mile;
H. Stock pile areas and locations for stumps and slash.
A limited earth removal special permit may be
granted for a period of up to one year with reduced requirements.
The amount of earth removal is not to exceed 500 cubic yards and the
area of land disturbed cannot exceed 1/2 acre. The requirement for
bonding may be waived or reduced though the applicant still is required
to restore the area.
Adoption of these regulations by the Planning
Board shall not diminish any of the authority given to said Board
by state statute, or by the bylaws or Zoning Bylaws of the Town of
Barre.
The Board reserves the right to modify any and
all of the above regulations.