Wetlands Enforcement in a Small Town: Leave Yourself Somewhere to Go

Wetlands Enforcement in a Small Town: Leave Yourself Somewhere to Go Enforcement is a strange kind of authority because you are responsible for stopping or correcting something you have no immediate physical ability to stop.   A lot of small Connecticut towns are cash-strapped. That can make wetlands enforcement more complicated than it looks from […]

Checking Older Wetlands Regulations for Outdated Subdivision Referral Language

Checking Older Wetlands Regulations for Outdated Subdivision Referral Language (Section 7.2 of IWWC Model Regs) This is not legal advice, but it’s a wording issue I’d want to review when updating older town regulations.     One section worth checking in older Connecticut inland wetlands regulations is the subdivision and re-subdivision referral language.  This is Section  […]

Writing a Municipal FAQ Without Accidentally Rewriting the Regulations

Writing a Municipal FAQ Without Accidentally Rewriting the Regulations I figured that writing a Frequently Asked Questions page would be a relatively simple task—that is, until I started writing.  When I started working as a Wetlands Agent in a small town in Connecticut, there was already an unfinished FAQ draft. It had useful information in […]

Installing a Lagun Table Leg in the Bristol 26 Sailboat Dinette

Installing a Lagun Table Leg in a Bristol 26 Sailboat Dinette One of the best (and also easiest) upgrades to our Bristol 26 was the addition of a Lagun Table Leg.  It isn’t cheap, but it allows the table to swivel around and easily move out of the way when it isn’t needed.   The […]

Building a Flask Holder from Acrylic for an Orbital Shaker

Building a Flask Holder from Acrylic for an Orbital Shaker The lab needed to run an algae test using several Erlenmeyer flasks on an orbital shaker. The flasks had to remain exposed to light, but they would wobble and fall from the shaker platform during operation. The original idea was to build some kind of […]