SOUTHWICK — The three trees in the North Pond Conservation Area where rope swings are hanging are one step closer to being downed after the Select Board unanimously voted this week to submit a Request for Determination of Applicability to the Conservation Commission and waive any fees associated.
“The Conservation Commission felt it would be a conflict to submit an RDA to themselves,” Select Board member Douglas Moglin said during the board’s meeting on Tuesday.
The commission and the police chief, who serves as harbormaster of Congamond Lake, have argued for nearly a year about whose responsibility it is to remove the trees. Town officials agree that the trees should come down, to reduce the town’s potential liability if there were an injury, or worse, related to rope swings that visitors keep installing in the conservation area shoreline on North Pond.
