Why are buffers necessary to protect a wetland in a residential area?
As you know, in Bedford, almost all of our brooks and streams flow from Northwest to Southeast where they empty into the Merrimack River. So all of our water flows through residential areas and across the Route 101 commercial, more residential and then into the PZ zone and out to the river. I start looking at functional values and think, I could not come up with any justification for why we needed to protect wetlands in residential areas, but we didnt need to protect wetlands in commercial areas. Mr. VanAnglen asked if the Performance Zone is on public water. The response was, yes. He then said the rest of the commercial property is pretty much along the 101 corridor. Ms. White agreed. If the protection of the wetlands is to protect the water table and the wells of residential people, because the wetlands are a feeder to the ground water system that people use their wells off of, then is that then defensible because you have piped water into the commercial land and not in to most of th
