LYNDEBOROUGH – A collapsing house and the accompanying trash and debris piles are on town owned land and are therefore the clean up is a town problem. The selectmen and the Conservation Commission would like the area cleaned up this fall but getting to it is a problem. The road has been so severely damaged over the years by unauthorized vehicles and erosion, town trucks can’t get there to remove the debris.

The selectmen met with Conservation Commission members Sharon Akers and Mike Decubelis on Sept. 27, to discuss the problem.

After some discussion, the best solution appeared to be having volunteers with Jeeps, or other such vehicles, ferry the trash down the hill where it could be picked up by the town truck, and disposed of.

“Jeeps go up there all the time,” Akers said and noted that the fire department’s off-road vehicle has also gone in.

Town Administrator Russ Boland will discuss disposal with the Wilton Recycling Center. The problem, he said, “is two-pronged, finding a place to dispose of it, and getting it there.”

It was agreed the work needs to be done this fall. Otherwise it will have to wait until next summer because of spring run-off making the road worse.

Akers said the former driveway to the house could be cleared, but that would “open another access” for the illegal vehicles.

Selectman Chairman suggested “blocking it with some really big boulders.” He also wondered if the Fire Department could burn the building “once all of the trash and anything toxic has been removed.”

Akers said she could find volunteers to do what they could. The debris appears to be “ordinary household trash.”

Scout Road is the official access to the top of Rose Mountain, an area recently purchased by the Piscataquog Land Conservancy. PLC would like to close the road through their property but there is ongoing discussions with land owners along the road. After the former Boy Scout camp was closed many years ago, the road was gradually destroyed by people driving to the top of the mountain.

Voters approved converting the town-owned adjoining land, which had been acquired for unpaid taxes, to town forest and building foot access to the conservation land.

In other business, the two panels discussed the use of Richardson Road by a logging company. Richardson is a Class 6 road which has been designated an emergency lane. That designation allows minimal work on the road.

The loggers have been told to use Richardson Road north in order to avoid the newly paved Mountain Road. No heavy trucks will be allowed on Mountain Road until next year, when the asphalt has hardened. Limited use is allowed when the temperature is low enough to keep the tar hard.

Richardson Rroad crosses Cold Brook on an old stone culvert, Deculbelis said, “and that needs to be protected.”

He also noted the need for barrier to keep silt out of the brook. Cold Brook has been determined by the state to be one of very few habitats left for native trout. Much of it runs through protected lands.

Selectmen said Road Agent Kent Perry is aware of the situation and the logging is being overseen by a professional logger and the state forester.

Since the loggers have cleared the road of debris that “dates back to the big ice storm,” Decubelis said, the road will again be available for walkers and horseback riders, when the logging operation is complete.