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HomeMy WebLinkAboutAbutter 270 Marbleridge Email in Opposition - finding - Correspondence - 335 Salem Street 4/26/2024 NoyVtR Jennifer Battersby<jbattersby@northandoverma.gov> 335 Salem St -Abutters 4 messages Zachary ONeil <zachoneil@gmail.com> Wed,Apr 26, 2023 at 2:34 PM To: zoningemails@northandoverma.gov Cc: Zachary ONeil <zachoneil@gmail.com>, Jessica Reed <jessica.reed7ll@gmail.com> Dear Members of the Zoning Board of Appeals, (please confirm receipt of e-mail) My wife and I are the owners of 270 Marbleridge Rd in North Andover. We are writing about the appeal filed by Lynn and John McLoughlin regarding the property at 335 Salem St.that would allow for the construction of a single-family home on the vacant lot. We could not attend the April 11th meeting but did review it online afterward, and some points were brought up at that meeting regarding our property. Our property is south of 335 Salem Street, with some adjacent land on the outskirts of our property. Our property sits downstream from water overflow systems and contains a drainage pipe that moves water to the wetland area located at 240 Marbleridge Road. We have experienced considerable flooding, and damages resulting from the water flow system as currently constructed. As abutters, we have major worries about the potential impact that building a single-family home will have on water flow and flooding not only to our property but also to the surrounding properties. Current water flow and flooding:The drainage system runs directly through our backyard,feeding drainage/excess water from upstream (we do not know from where). We have experienced multiple issues with excess flooding that takes up nearly an acre of our land, reaching up to 4 feet deep.This caused a foul odor, altered the land's makeup, prevented our children from playing in their yard for two months of the summer(they could drown it was so deep), and cost us upwards of$5,000 per flooding incident.The town has claimed no ownership or maintenance of this system, which is not accounted for in our property documentation, so all issues are placed solely on our shoulders. Please review the attached photos and video evidence of flooding from July 2021. In one of these images,you can see the 335 Salem Street residence and can see how adding a property, which will undoubtedly alter the impact of water flow,will directly impact us.This flooding lasted roughly two months and had significant financial and mental effects.The attached video shows the massive footprint of the flooding and how close it came to damaging our property and impacting our gas-powered generator. Financially, we had to pay for Girardi Plumbing to pump over 1,000 gallons of water out of our yard, ultimately moving the flooding impact down roughly 1-2 inches.The mental effects were omnipresent as the flooding was approximately 2-3 feet from reaching our finished basement. We were constantly manually pumping water via a system of hoses to a sewer drain at the end of the road to mitigate the overnight stress of water rising while we were sleeping. Ultimately, no amount of due diligence can be put in place to ensure this proposed construction will not result in catastrophic flooding and property damage to our dream home.Therefore, while we sympathize with McLoughlin's situation, we will take any and all legal action necessary to protect our homestead. -Zachary&Jessica O'Neil Owners 270 Marbleridge Road 2 attachments flooding_markup.PNG 2154K flooding images.zip 11486K Jennifer Battersby<jbattersby@northandoverma.gov> Wed,Apr 26, 2023 at 2:39 PM To: Zachary ONeil <zachoneil@gmail.com> Cc: Jessica Reed <jessica.reed711@gmail.com> Hello Zachary and Jessica, I received your email and will circulate it to the Board Members. The next zoning meeting regarding this matter is scheduled for Tuesday, May 09th at 7:30pm at the North Andover Town Hall. Best regards, &enn&O�crttersb� Zoning Board of Appeals Department Assistant Town of North Andover 120 Main Street North Andover, MA 01845 Phone: 978.688.9541 www.northandoverma.gov Office hours: Mon. 8:30-5:00; Tues. 1:30-6:00; Wed. &Thurs. 1:30-4:30 [Quoted text hidden] Jennifer Battersby<jbattersby@northandoverma.gov> Wed,Apr 26, 2023 at 2:40 PM To:Alexandria Jacobs<ajacobs@northandoverma.gov> Abutters are speaking up now for 335 Salem Street! I will put in the board packets for everyone! [Quoted text hidden] [Quoted text hidden] 2 attachments j flooding_markup.PNG 2154K flooding images.zip 11486K Zachary ONeil <zachoneil@gmail.com> Wed,Apr 26, 2023 at 2:40 PM To: Jennifer Battersby <jattersby@northandoverma.gov> Perfect, thank you. Let me know if there are any issues playing the video attachment. It was from my phone, not sure if it needs to be formatted a specific way. -Zach [Quoted text hidden] [Quoted text hidden] All email messages and attached content sent from and to this email account are public records unless qualified as an exemption under the Massachusetts Public Records Law. Visit us online at www.northandoverma.gov.