OLIVER, an online program available to the public to view and extract Mass GIS data, has improved with a friendlier interface. Some wetland data has increased and become more detailed than last year's data.
Using OLIVER online, as seen in this first screen shot, is The City of Peabody parcel on the Salem side, shaded in a light green. This parcel abuts Camp Lion and the Dibiasi subdivision, and was purchased by the City of Peabody to protect the water quality of Spring Pond. The wetlands, saturated soils and streams have a hydro-connection from Camp Lion, through the City of Peabody's Parcel, onto Spring Pond water supply. Only in season of a high water table and excessive rain (like the Springtime), may the streams and connecting saturated soils be seen in a short period of a day or more. There is some video footage available to share of this.
In this second map, additional resource layers are turned on to view Surface Water Protection Zones 1 and 2 surrounding the streams and Spring Pond. These zones are part of a regulated area. This is part of the watershed, where the land is drained by the streams into Spring Pond. These zones extend onto Camp Lion and the rear of Wal-mart's site (indicated in light blue shade and cross hatch). From onsite observations, it appears these zones may need to be extended to envelope entire stream systems.
In the map below, the Pine Barrens layer (shaded in olive green) is shown to indicate the areas of intense surface drainage caused from the Pine Barrens (as Leslie reminds us) where ground cover composed of pine needles flushes water at a faster rate. Onsite observations indicate there are far more pines on site than just within the boundaries of these two zones.
A new and interesting layer is provided by the National Wetlands Inventory Streams and Wetlands (NWI Streams). This survey affirms stream connection from Spring Pond to the rear of Wal-mart's site!
If you don't believe me or have time to follow the streams and saturation levels in the wet Springtime, check out Mass GIS OLIVER online: http://maps.massgis.state.ma.us/map_ol/oliver.php
I hope your evidence can be presented to someone who can make a difference and stop this maddness and protect the woods from this development.
ReplyDeletelies lies lies! LOL! Seems evident wetlands exist. This project doesn't belong here.
ReplyDeleteKeep it up! Someone has to be listening.
ReplyDeleteLynnas--send a message that you don't like (choose any or all) how all this came about, that you don't approve of the lies, that you don't want more traffic and fatalities on Highland Ave/Western Ave., that you value other forms of life that live on that land and that you can't support the candidate (C. at Large) who instigated it.
ReplyDeleteYou think you all know it all. But it really comes down to who has more $$$
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ReplyDeleteWell, that is pretty said that knowledge versus money wins out.
Crowley or Spirito you won't get a vote from me.
ReplyDeleteLynn should just close off the entrance from Fays Ave. Hughes sells liquor at the meetings in the back lodge.
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