Committee Seeks Town Approval of Revised Stormwater Bylaw
Dighton Stormwater Committee voted to request town meeting warrant article on bylaw revisions. The panel voted unanimously on a motion by Leonard Hull, seconded by David Phillips, to ask the selectmen to place the article on a special town meeting warrant this fall.
Stormwater Committee · Meeting of August 19, 2026
Dighton Stormwater Committee voted to request town meeting warrant article on bylaw revisions. The panel voted unanimously on a motion by Leonard Hull, seconded by David Phillips, to ask the selectmen to place the article on a special town meeting warrant this fall. The revisions, completed by engineering consultants Weston and Sampson, would transfer stormwater permitting oversight from the Board of Health to the Stormwater Committee and increase the land disturbance threshold requiring a permit from 35,000 square feet to one acre.
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Source: the Stormwater Committee meeting of August 19, 2026, compiled from the official minutes.
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