BETHEL – Selectmen unanimously agreed to sign a consent decree Monday night with two Wilton men who agreed to pay a fine for three days of construction without a permit.
The men, Richard Tibbetts and Dale Verrill, had begun a logging operation on their Bethel property off Walkers Mills Road, which is Route 26.
Town Manager Scott Cole said that the pair filled in a small section of the Chandler Brook flood plain with gravel for a forest management entrance before they had the necessary permits in hand.
On Feb. 28, four days after the fact, Main-Land Development Inc. of Livermore Falls filed flood hazard development and shoreland zoning applications on behalf of its clients, Tibbetts and Verrill.
Under the consent decree, Cole said Tibbetts and Verrill agreed to pay the town $300 as a civil penalty. That represents three days’ construction without a permit at $100 a day.
They further agreed, Cole said Tuesday, to pay the town $200 for its attorney’s fees.
In return, the town agreed to issue an after-the-fact flood hazard development permit, and take no action against Tibbetts and Verrill for activities on the property before the issuance of the permit.
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