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Noc Templates With Borders In Massachusetts
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What activities are allowed? Most activities, such as construction, landscaping, and grading, require a permit. Some activities, such as normal maintenance, are allowed without a permit. Normal maintenance and improvement of land currently in agricultural use is exempt from the provisions of the Act.
Under the Act no one may “remove, fill, dredge, or alter” any wetland, floodplain, bank, land under a water body, land within 100 feet of a wetland, or land within 200 feet of a perennial stream or river (25 feet of a few urban rivers), without a permit (known as an Order of Conditions) from the local conservation ...
The Procedures define an area as wetland as follows: An area is wetland if, under normal circumstances, (1) the area has continuous or recurrent saturation of the upper substrate caused by groundwater, or shallow surface water, or both; (2) the duration of such saturation is sufficient to cause anaerobic conditions in ...
Concerned about the loss of wetlands, Massachusetts adopted the nation's first wetlands protection laws in the early 1960s. Today, wetlands are protected by state and federal laws.
Can I build next to wetlands? You may be able to build within 100 feet of wetlands and within 200 feet of a perennial stream if you obtain the proper permits and approvals from the Conservation Commission and all work complies with state and local wetland laws.
