Andover panel approves septic fix, delays 3 hearings

Conservation · Meeting of September 1, 2026

ANDOVER — The Andover Conservation Commission approved a septic replacement and pushed three hearings to September 15 over notice and review delays. Conservation Agent Mahoney recommended approval of David Middleton's leach field replacement at 43 Farwood Drive, which the commission backed 7-0. Hearings on 12 Sherry Drive and 104 Salem Street were continued after abutters were notified too late, and a delineation review at 71-77 Lowell Junction Road was continued again because the commission's peer-review consultant, Abby Ann Martin, had not yet replied to the applicant's latest submission.

Chairman Don Cooper said the Lowell Junction Road case had become "attenuated" and that "it's time to move on," while Commissioner Stuart Rubin asked whether the September 15 meeting risked becoming "an overburden meeting" with three continued items landing the same night. Staff also reported 123 responses to the town's spotted lanternfly survey and previewed a DCR-partnered Forestry Conference in Andover capped at 150 attendees.

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Source: the Conservation meeting of September 1, 2026, reported from the official video recording and transcript.