Conservation Commission issues three wetlands orders, approves King Philip's Woods beaver device

SUDBURY — July 21, 2025 — Sudbury Conservation Commission clears six wetlands cases and advances a second beaver flow device. Chair David Henkels and members Kenneth Holtz, Kathleen Rogers, Mark Sevier and Luke Faust issued orders of conditions for Stephen Wolden's bluestone patio and tree removal at 79 Ford Road, Bruce Katz's removal of 19 trees in the Dudley Brook riverfront area at 7 Newton Road, and Chen Yang's retaining-wall and pervious-patio project at 61 Virginia Ridge Road, plus a negative determination for Alan Corrin's six-tree request at 64 Brewster Road. The commission also approved its own Notice of Intent — funded by the Community Preservation Committee — to install a Beaver Solutions caged flow-device extender at King Philip's Woods, where beavers had defeated the existing 12-inch pipe and flooded Old Berlin Road. Conservation Coordinator Lori Capone said maintenance had dropped from "biweekly at least" to "two or three times over the last two years" at the comparable Hop Brook installation. A 9 Trevor Way certificate of compliance was deferred pending a new Lot 4 Notice of Intent expected in four to six weeks; 175 Lanham Road closed out with a new perpetual invasive-removal condition, with Holtz, the property owner, abstaining.