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Minutes of Mashpee Waterways Commission Meeting <br />Tuesday October 11, 2016 <br />Chairman Ken Bates called the meeting to order at 9:06 AM at the Mashpee Town Hall in the <br />Popponesset Meeting Room <br />Present: Don Barton, Ken Bates, Tim Leedham, Bill Taylor <br />Absent: Al Wickel, Stanton Healy, Don McDonald <br />Also in attendance: Harbormaster, Alec Turner and DPW Director, Catherine Laurent <br />Minutes of September 13. 2016 Meeting: Motion made by Don Barton to approve the minutes, 2nd by <br />Bill Taylor and unanimously approved. <br />Appointments & Information Sessions - NA <br />Communications &,Correspondence - received notice of Flu Clinic availability at Senior Center and <br />notice of Conservation Hearing. <br />Old Business: <br />Harbor Master Report - Alec provided update on his activities. He is very involved in continuing <br />maintenance operations, as boat activity seasonally declines, and management of navigational markers <br />in the bay waters. He is undergoing extensive training with the Coast Guard on boat operations and <br />Search and Rescue, as well as the TOC course for tactical responses. <br />Ken asked Alec to track aquaculture grant location activity in the Bays so that their operational status is <br />understood. Ken also mentioned that Dick Cook (Popponesset Bay site) will coordinate his operations <br />with any dredge activity. Ken explained that his objective is to give as much warning to the shellfish <br />grantees when dredging operations will have to be conducted. The Town has a responsibility to give as <br />much as a year's advance notice of a dredge in an adjacent channel. <br />Alec also stated that he had contacted the New Seabury management on the dingy storage issue, where <br />access to the mooring field adjacent to Popponesset Island was now being denied and restricted. New <br />Seabury states that the removal of the boats from the beach was solely a liability issue that they acted <br />upon. <br />Shellfish ,Report - Rick York not in attendance but provided a written report concerning a shelf fishing <br />closure in all of Nantucket and Vineyard Sounds including all estuaries in Mashpee because of a toxic <br />algae bloom that was found. Rick detected a sample of these toxic algae in water adjacent to Waquoit <br />