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The Engineering Department provides services
including, but not limited to the following: 
  • Review development plans submitted to the Town Plan and Zoning Commission

    • Ensure they meet basic engineering principles

    • Ensure they meet Local, State, and Federal standards

    • Establish site bonds

    • Perform site inspections

  • Prepare plans and specifications for typical Public Works projects

    • Perform survey services

    • Perform drainage analysis

    • Provide pavement management

  • Monitor all construction activities within the Town’s rights-of-way

    • Issue licenses to contractors wishing to work in the town’s rights-of-way

    • Issue excavation permits to contractors who need to excavate in our streets

    • Issue driveway and sidewalk permits

    • Coordinate all utility work – Issue line assignments

    • Administer drainage agreements with private property owners

  • Maintain maps and records pertaining to the town’s infrastructure

    • Monumentation records

    • Drainage records

  • Conservation Commission

    • Act as Agent for Inland-Wetlands

    • Receive and review all applications to the Inland-Wetlands

    • Monitor all construction activities within wetlands and/or 100-foot buffer area