Fullington Farm
Fullington Farm Proposed Development
The Friends of Hanover Crew have approached the Town and the state Department of Environmental Services with a proposal for their 2.4 acre property at Fullington Farm,which they purchased from Dartmouth College. The proposal includes renovating the historic dairy barn for boat storage, creating a grassy parking area, constructing open boat sheds, and renovating the farmhouse. The proposal also includes a 180 foot dock at Wilson’s Landing, property owned by the Town of Hanover. The Friends of Hanover Crew intend to make the facility available to the Hanover High School crew team, Upper Valley Rowing Foundation recreational programs and to community rowers.
The proposal has received extensive review from town boards, residents, and watershed organizations, and the dock application is currently under review by the NH Department of Environmental Services. Further review is pending a revision of the application by the Friends.
Fullington Farm map
The Council is watching this project with great interest. In 1990, the Hanover Conservation Council led a successful community-wide fundraising campaign to help the Town of Hanover purchase conservation easements on the Haslett Fullington Farm and Wilson Fullington Farm.
These two parcels protected by conservation easements are located on Route 10 extending from the Dartmouth College Organic Farm to the southern boundary of the Fullington Farm house lot near Wilson’s Landing. The land is owned by Dartmouth College and the Town of Hanover holds the conservation easements, which are monitored by the Town Conservation Commission. While the Council helped raise funds to purchase the easements, it has no role in monitoring or enforcing them.
We are following the local and state reviews of the proposed project and encourage all public bodies to join in the careful review of:
1. The environmental impacts of the proposal on the Connecticut River
2. The environmental impacts on shoreline habitat, birds and other wildlife
3. Protection of conserved footpath along the Connecticut River south of Wilson’s landing
4. Impact on adjacent conservation easements
5. The number of locations for public access to the Connecticut River and the community’s interest in public access to the river
July 8, 2010