11/12/1980 CONSERVATION COMMISSION Minutes

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-10- Mr. Kuebler: I agree with stabilizing it. We would want to monitor it. Time is of the essence. DEQE has to see it. It is better to get them in and try to over- rule at the local level. Charles: We should let DEQE.know it is an emergency situation. Ken. Suggests that people from the State be called. A continuance was made for the night of December 3. Wetlands Seminar Wavne discusses the Wetland Seminar that he attended in Sandwich on October 29 and 30. On the first day in the morning, they discussed wetlands formation, the water table, the water lands, the way it floats and they had some charts on how the water table is polluted and how the geology is formed here on the Cape and other places and how the soil was held. It was very good. They took some tests sites up at Otis Air Force Base. They followed the chlorides through the water. They had a topo map showing it as it goes down hill. Their theory in Falmouth, as a matter of fact, was interesting. I was .saying: "What do you people say.. as far as the out flow versus the living filter?" The living filter near the ocean is on its most outward side and doesn't pollute. Ken: Where do the chlorides come from? Did they let something go? Wayne: It was a detergent. They showed a topo of the underground water as it flows. It goes down Sandwich Road right into Teaticket, Falmouth. Pauline: Right into Martha's bog. Wayne: They had Dr. Norton Nickerson there. He is a Biologist at Tufts. He was good. Par.lir.e: He is rood. If .he talks for an hour, you are glued for an hour. He was the head of MACC. He is terrific. He used to be the President of the Dennis Con- servation. Wayne: They showed coastal processes. They had Jeff Benoit. They had Dennis LeBlanc there talking about the out fall. He is the one that has been monitoring the wells over at Otis. Charles: LeBlanc was the one that did the tracing of the plume over at Otis. Wayne: The second day was Rules and Regulations. They had MEPA, CZM and Army Corps. What we were trying to get out of it is how they were relating and coordinating the efforts to make it easy for us. The thing that we found out was there wasn't any. That's the trouble. They are all working so independently. Sheldon Shapiro, the Director of Wetlands, was the one who was trying to set up an inter-disciplinary type of coordination. Everybody was asking the question about how do we get a permit. The question was never answered.