Littleton Commission Strengthens Blood Road Dredging Order, Continues LNG Hearing

LITTLETON -- May 12, 2026, Littleton Conservation Commission votes 5-1 to strengthen dredging enforcement order and opens hearing on a natural gas facility at Kimball Farm. The commission amended an enforcement order against Irv and Gayle Matheson of 2 and 6 Blood Road, adding an explicit ban on dock installation and motorboat use, with Ed Fultz casting the lone dissenting vote; a parallel order against neighbor John Scott at 8 Blood Road was continued to May 19 after commissioners concluded a proposed bathymetry survey would yield no meaningful baseline data. Boston Gas Company and its ecologist from BSC Group opened a public hearing on a portable liquefied natural gas transfer facility at 2A Cataldo Pond Way, leased from Kimball Farm, proposing 12 tree removals, 10,630 square feet of impervious pavement, and 6,230 square feet of pervious pavement within the 100-foot wetland buffer zone of a site designated as estimated and priority habitat for wood turtle and blue-spotted salamander. Member Kyle Maxfield called the absence of a tree replacement plan unacceptable, saying the commission "usually looks for a two-to-one to three-to-one type ratio." Associate Member Jim Geraghty announced his resignation and urged the commission to ask staff to present recommended actions alongside factual summaries, a practice commissioners agreed to formalize in meeting packets going forward.