DIXFIELD – Selectmen signed a permit Monday night allowing Roland Tyler to continue operation of his automobile junkyard/graveyard after learning the vehicles were not in the floodplain or public well buffer areas.
Jay Bernard, code enforcement officer, said a study of the Canton Point Road junkyard showed that the vehicles were located just outside of the 1,000-foot buffer zone required by shoreland zoning, and just slightly more than 1,000 feet from the town’s public water supply.
He was concerned about possible contamination from gasoline and other automotive fluids.
He said, too, that an application to build a 145-foot cellular tower is planned for a site on Tyler’s property.
The board also granted a $996 sewer abatement to Deputy Treasurer Charlotte Collins as compensation for the town taking an easement across her First Avenue property in 1998 without first getting an easement agreement. The line was installed to hook up neighboring sewer systems. Selectmen last month agreed to waive payment of Collins’ quarterly sewer bills for as long as the town continues to use her property.
In response to questions about mutual police aid with towns that do not have police departments, raised at last month’s board meeting, Police Chief Richard Pickett said Dixfield officers responded to about a half-dozen such calls during the past two-and-a-half months, out of a total of 40 out-of-town requests. Most were from neighboring towns that had mutual aid agreements.
He said his department does not respond to the towns without police departments, but to assist Oxford County Sheriff’s Office or Maine State Police requests.
“It could be a real ticklish situation if we didn’t go as requested by the state police or Sheriff’s Office,” he said, adding that situations could arise when state police or sheriff’s deputies would not help Dixfield police.
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