Okay. Good afternoon, everybody. This is the Water Control Commission, Village Of Croton On Hudson for Monday, 05/18/2026. Select to call a meeting to order. Business here is on behalf of Vincente and Christine Fernandez, owners of 129 Scenic Drive West. Their engineer is present and will introduce himself when he presents the project to us. It's located in an RA dash 40 residence district and designated on tax maps of the village of Croton On Hudson as Section 67.9, Lot 2, Lot 415. A wetlands activity permit has been referred to the water control commission by the planning board for advisory review and recommendation pursuant to chapter two two seven of the village code with respect to the proposed construction that also involves an accessory dwelling or known as an ADU, a minor site plan extension, and building envelope modification. Like, to call for a presentation of the, project. And if you could come in and introduce yourself and give us a summary of what the project is all about.
My name is Martin Mastromonaco, part of Ralph Mastromonaco Consulting Engineers. We did the engineering, which is basically the drainage to with this ADU. There's an additional 510 square feet of impervious that's being introduced, and we are handling it, the the extra runoff in a rain garden. And after this rain garden, it is goes down to the eventually to the wetland down below. But, the rain garden is is gonna create some control over the higher flows, and it'll also offer some, water quality improvement.
• Pretty basic. Pretty basic. Okay.
Alright. I, was over at the property, day before yesterday, searching for the wetland, I might say. Oh, it's a 120 feet away. Yes. It must have been back of the stock stockade fence because all I saw was a beautiful manicured lawn and Right. Slopes down to both the neighbor and toward where the wetland is. But just have a couple of questions. The ADU, I'm just curious.
• Who is going to be living there, and what's the purpose of the request?
I gotta be honest with you. I thought the architect was gonna come and answer those questions. I just have the engineering side of this. Unfortunately, I can't help you with all those. Okay.
Okay. They will be answering that though when they go to planning board. Yes. I'm sure they will. Yes. Tune in for that meeting. Yes. Well,
purpose is to really discuss a wetlands activity permit for the for the project. Are there any comments from members of the board at the moment? I don't have one. I know there was a presentation in October. I was away, so I have to plan ignorance until just reading the minutes of that October meeting, but I understand there have been some changes made. So I'll let that up to my colleagues to talk about if there are any issues there.
Yeah. This application is just someone's knew it didn't come before at the last meeting. I think it was in October the last meeting. So this is just a new application, and you're seeing the engineers plan with the wet with the rain garden, which is good practice near a wetland, pretty far from the from the house, and going down towards the wetland is pretty standard, I would say, practice and a good one that the village would engineering department would like to see. Okay.
Is is what's the the likely duration of the construction? Or do you have any sense of that?
For the construction of the house or the rain garden? Well, the I guess the ADU would be taking be installed with the with the Yeah. They're doing a small addition. Well, they're regrading as well. Right?
Not so much regrading. I don't think they're regrading. That's just the silk mask that they're showing with the purple. Yeah. Okay. Doing some slight regrating, actually. Looks like Well, actually,
that the grading you see there is what's representative now of the site. I didn't have a as built, but that's how it was designed. And it's actually like that now because, actually, if you look back there, it's sloping just the way it is shown on there.
Gotcha. So can you just clarify, like, the it looks like there's existing and proposed contours.
Are you saying that the existing is not actually accurate? Right. Proposed is actually what's existing? Existing?
Status stockpile will be on a relatively flatter piece Right. Property That's typical. And then be removed. Right. That's just temporary. Yeah. Right. And
I wasn't sure which house on this map of the street. I think it was Lot 15. It was Lot 15 on the subdivision map. On the TV if you wanna take a look up there. Look at this. Yeah. There it is. Lot 15.
Okay. Got it. And it's slightly outside of the building envelope. The architectural plans, which were submitted for this for this meeting, they would show that it's maybe, like, two feet into the building envelope. Really not Yeah. The building envelope on this plan because it doesn't really affect the Right. The drainage. Right. Right. Yeah.
Okay. I I just have a quick question. Are you building the rain garden as well? Like, is it you, or is that
Likely the contractor who builds the the addition will also be doing the rain garden unless they want to sub it out, but they usually do it all in one.
Okay. And that is sorry. Just, like, clarifying, like, what the rain garden like, imagine, like, so runoff. Is there, like, plants there?
Yeah. They'll have, like, some piping going to it. Probably pipes going to it.
So it's a planted detention basin, essentially. Something of that nature. Yeah. So it's only about a foot deep. It's gonna plant it with, you know, wetland type plants that can handle the extra moisture.
• Go ahead.
Because That's about it. I mean, generally, we like to see this installed before the actual construction of the house so that, you know, they could start using it when Right. Construction's going on. Right. That might be one condition you might wanna put with your approval. Know, install rain garden before, you know, construction of the actual house. I think that makes sense. Kinda why I was asking about the timing. Yeah.
K. Looks like there isn't much of a significant issue as far as encroachment on the wetlands as our engineer has already identified and is clearly on the plans. So the job before us is to recommend a wetlands activity permit, but with one provision that they install a rain garden before construction. Okay. Are there any other mitigating circumstances that we should do as we discuss whether or not the wetlands activity permit will be granted.
It's fine. Okay. So do I have a a motion to grant the wetlands activity permit for Vincent and Christine Fernandez owners at 129 Scenic Drive West, for their construction of the project subject to the one provision that we just identified. All those in favor?
• the permit is granted.
Okay. That's it. That's it. That's it. Very good. Thank you. Yes. Good luck. The project sounds exciting, actually.
Yes. Indeed. Okay. Alright. Alright. Good afternoon. The final order of business is the minutes or are the minutes how do I say it? Is it the the minutes is a singular, but even though it's plural. That's a good question. Alright. Well, I should say since I'm a former English teacher, should I know what I'm talking about. But let's take a look at the minutes. The minutes are from water control commission. This is they are a draft from Monday, 10/20/2025. I was not present for that. However, all the other members of the water control commission were present. Are there any comments or changes or edits or anything relative to this
• Accept the minutes. Alright. First, everybody done. Nobody's Nobody's objecting.