QEN and Citizens for Town Brook present...


Links and Info Related to Town Brook


DEP Testimony (Chase, et al) Submitted April 6, 2012


Petitioners_Testimony_April_2012


City_Testimony_March2012


Town Brook Appeal Appendices



These are the comments posted by Mass DEP:
1)
p. 1-8 of the NOI notes that irrigation for the proposed plantings will only be irrigated during drought conditions. Plantings should be watered during the initial growing season (as is recommended in O&M program for the proposed rain garden).

2)
The Order of Conditions should reference the O&M program for the culvert, low-flow channel and rain garden as described on pp. 7-20 & 7-21.

3)
p. 7-3 of the NOI notes that low base flows as measured at the USGS station of 2.2 cfs are not sufficient attraction velocities for smelt spawning. Further on in the same paragraph, it is noted that the low base flow of 2.2 currently results in the desired velocity range. These would appear to be conflicting statements.

4)
p. 7-9 notes that the existing 1700 l.f. of culvert will continue to convey surface runoff from Drainage Basin 4 and will eventually be decommissioned. Given concerns about low base flows in Town Brook, the proposed project should treat and permanently incorporate the Drainage Basin 4 stormwater flows into Town Brook.

5)
The Order of Conditions should include a condition requiring a Memorandum of Agreement between DMF and the City regarding implementation of the recommendations of the final Gomez & Sullivan Report regarding restoration of flows and sediment management in Town Brook.

6)
p. 7-11 notes that DMF will review the design of the low-flow features. In addition, DMF recommendations regarding low-flow features design as well as the exclusionary structure design should be incorporated into the project.
  • Status of the ConComm Hearings held on Wednesday June 15, 2011
    1. Hearing on City's request for Designation as 'Densely Developed Area' (DDA)   Click Here to view the DDA documentation
      This was not a Public Hearing
      ConComm voted to approve the DDA designation, even though they heard no public testimony
      Public Hearing will be held on June 22, 2011 at 6:00PM, City Hall 2nd Floor Conference Room.
    2. Hearing on 'Town Brook Relocation' Notice of Intent (NoI) Mass DEP # 059-1261    Click Here to View the NoI
      Continued to July 20, 2011. ConComm will be seeking 'technical peer review' from an indepenedent engineering consultant
Check Status of Notice of Intent: via Mass DEP NoI Lookup (Quincy is in Northeast Region!)

April 22, 2011: MEPA will not require Environmental Impact Report (EIR)

Read the full 'Certification Report' here


  Smelt at Miller Stile 6:10PM Apr 24, 2011
click to download video of Smelt in Town Brook ! 		Rainbow Smelt (Osmerus Mordax)
Spawning Habitat: Town Brook Quincy
A critical food source of the Atlantic Cod
Atlantic Cod is critical to our local fishing industry...

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Yes... Smelt are running in Town Brook in 2011!

We are collecting as much 'observational data' as we can (photos, times, numbers, locations)
If YOU see any, please email: info@townbrook.org

QEN Presents an Alternative Plan
for Town Brook in Quincy Center

Click on the image to open as PDF 		Here is the Street-Works Proposed
"Pocket Park" plan for the
Town Brook Waterway

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Official Link to Quincy Center Development Home Rule Petition


MEPA's 'Recent Decisions'
MEPA's bi-weekly 'Environmental Monitor'

EEA No.Project NameLocationComments DueFor CopiesMEPA Analyst
14725Town Brook Enhancement ProjectQuincy04/12/2011Jon Stephenson
(617) 695-7795
 jstephenson@sdg-eng.com 		Purvi Patel
(617) 626-1029
 purvi.patel@state.ma.us 

Town Brook Video Tour

Town Brook at School St Diversion Tunnel Inlet
(Deep Rock Tunnel)
Monitoring Station 01105584
Gage Height


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Summary of all available data for this site

LOCATION--Lat 42o14'40", long 71o00'16", Norfolk County, Hydrologic Unit 01090001, on left bank at spillway into Burgin Brook diversion tunnel, 20 ft upstream from trash racks at entrance to Town Brook culvert, 100 ft west of Burgin Parkway, and about 1.5 mi upstream from Town River Bay in Quincy.
DRAINAGE AREA--About 2.0 mi2 (unknown degree of inflow).

GAGE--Water-stage recorder and heated tipping-bucket precipitation gage with telephone telemeter. Elevation of gage is 14.90 ft above National Geodetic Vertical Datum (NGVD) of 1929. Elevation of spillway into Burgin Brook diversion tunnel is 18.0 ft above NGVD. Elevation data provided by U.S. Army Corps of Engineers

REMARKS--Flows are diverted into Burgin Brook and diversion tunnel at a gage height of 18.0 ft (elevation of top of diversion dam). Periods of missing record are not estimated.
Nominal Elevation at Town Brook Staff Gauge: 17 ft NGVD

Town Brook at Miller Stile Rd
Monitoring Station 01105585
Gage Height & Stream Flow


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Summary of all available data for this site

LOCATION--Lat 42o14'52", long 70o59'52", Norfolk County, Hydrologic Unit 01090001, on left bank 200 ft downstream from Miller Stile Road in Quincy and 0.8 mi upstream from Town River Bay.

DRAINAGE AREA--4.11 mi2.

GAGE--Water-stage recorder with telephone telemeter.
Datum of gage: 5 feet above sea level NGVD29.


REMARKS--Flows affected by frequent cyclical sump-pump discharges from nearby MBTA station. High flows affected by diversion to by-pass tunnel at site approximately one mile upstream.
Example
Gage Height value: 2.07 ft  11-09-2010  12:00 EST
5.00 + 2.07 = 7.07 ft NGVD29 or 6.4 ft NAVD88
(approx 6 ½ ft above Mean Sea Level)
Latest Instantaneous Values at both sites
 
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