Groton Open Space Association

IWA Expected To Consider Experts Fees Issue

GROTON–The Inland Wetlands Agency is expected to consider later this month whether to change its regulations to allow the agency to hire experts at developers’ expense when such experts are needed to evaluate impacts of proposed projects.

Minutes of the Nov. 9, 2005, IWA meeting show that commission Member Eunice Sutphen asked that the agency discuss this matter at its Dec. 14 meeting.

Earlier in the meeting, Alternate Member Mary Ellen Furlong had reported that the state had urged local inland wetlands agencies around the state that don’t currently have such powers to acquire them. The urging came at a meeting that Ms. Furlong attended of the Connecticut Association of Conservation and Inland Wetlands Commissions Nov. 5 in Wallingford.