Encroachment 65 Little Fox Run
Teresa Gallagher
FYI, I’ve attached some maps ahead of the next meeting for reference. I recently came upon a new trail off of the Paugussett at Birchbank and followed it 700 feet to a fire ring. The trail went through a new opening in a stone wall, and above that were painted marking on trees, pallets apparently being used for playing something like paintball, and a string of lights, with the trail ending with a substantial fire pit and stack of pallets for burning. I assumed I was on private property at that point since I was near a house. I gps’d everything and later determined the fire pit was 50 feet over the line (as seen on a satellite photo), and the entire trail was in open space. I’ll be sending them a letter and then follow up with some signage and make sure the materials are out of the open space.
This trail is not be confused with a different one I found at the other end of Birchbank last fall, improved this spring, that led to the “cave” where someone had been having fires. That one I addressed previously with a letter to the homeowner, open space signs, and removing the stone steps they created.
Teresa Gallagher
Natural Resources Manager
City of Shelton
54 Hill Street, Shelton, CT 06484
Teresa Gallagher
Some photos to go along with those maps I sent yesterday (attached)
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Teresa Gallagher
The boulder was likely dumped there by glaciers (unless the developer put it there?), but a real glacial erratic needs to be of a different rock type than the rock in the area, showing that it came from far away. So the only way to tell if a boulder is a glacial erratic is to examine the rock type and compare it to the local rock, not easy to do with everything covered in lichens and moss, and our local rocks being so complex. So we have mostly gneiss and schist in Shelton. If the boulder was basalt, which we don’t have, then it would be a glacial erratic.
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