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Mendon Panel Orders Pond Study After Violation

Mendon's Conservation Commission voted unanimously to issue an enforcement order over an illegally expanded wetland-turned-pond, closed a separate forest-clearing violation, and learned its conservation agent is departing for a shared post with Douglas and Sutton.

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Government · Conservation

Panel Withholds Compliance Over Riverfront Breach

Rutland's Conservation Commission withheld a certificate of compliance for 311 Pleasantdale Road after an as-built survey showed construction disturbed 9.6 percent of a 133,000-square-foot riverfront area, near the state's 10 percent cap, through boulder and slope work the commission said was…

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