MONROE, CT — An ambitious proposal to restore damaged wetlands and fill a massive hole on land in the Pepper Street Business Park offered complex solutions and was ultimately denied by the Inland Wetlands Commission. If only a superhero could have swooped in to save the day. On Wednesday night, the applicants asked commissioners their preferences to resolve the wetlands issues, during an informal conversation that will lead to the submission of a second proposal. “If Superman could fly around the Earth a thousand times in reverse and it put all that material back, and that solid rock, and the impermeabilities and the layers of natural soil, that would be my preference,” Chairman Keith Romano said with a laugh. But on a serious note, Romano agreed with Kevin Solli, of Solli Engineering, the engineer for the property owners, on the need to rehydrate the wetlands and start filling the hole to cover the groundwater table as soon as possible.
