4/16/2015 SEWER COMMISSION Minutes

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Town of Mashpee 16 Great Neck Road North Mashpee, Massachusetts 02649 BOARD OF SEWER COMMISSIONERS Mashpee Town Hall- Waquoit Meeting Room 1 Thursday, April 16, 2015 – 7:00 PM Board Members Present: Also Present: Tom Fudala, Chairman Jeff Gregg GHD Joe Lyons, Vice Chairman Paul Gobell, Sewer Commission Administrator Mark Gurnee, Clerk Glenn Santos Tom Burns CALL TO ORDER Chairman Tom Fudala called the meeting to order at 7:00 PM. REVIEW OF MINUTES – 3/19/15 Meeting Joe Lyons made a motion that the minutes from the March 19, 2015 meeting be approved as presented. Tom Burns seconded the motion. Roll Call Vote: Tom Burns, yes; Joe Lyons, yes; Tom Fudala, yes; Mark Gurnee, abstained; Glenn Santos, abstained. The motion was approved by a vote of (3-0-2). STATUS OF DRAFT FINAL PLAN – Jeff Gregg Jeff Gregg reported that he had gone through all the comments received from the last draft plan, and had updated the current draft with requested changes, with the exception of Rick York’s comments that he had received just today. The only new change is the addition to Chapter 2 of a summarization of the CCC 208 plan. Jeff Gregg stated that many of the comments received dealt with monitoring of the plan and TMDL compliance. Jeff stated that compliance is dependent on the performance of the shellfish; if the shellfish do well, the compliance plan will be ahead of schedule before 25 years. Jeff Gregg stated that he has set up a table that deals with shellfish; if there is “x” metric tons of shellfish removed, then half of the weight of that removal is nitrogen. After 5 years, 50% of the amount of the shellfish removed is nitrogen. Jeff Gregg has made changes to the tables in Chapter 9.2 and 9.3. The intent of the tables is to reflect where we are at the end of Phase 1: who is doing what, and how much is being projected. Jeff stated that what he would like to be able to do is indicate that these tables can be adjusted based on whatever those final agreed-upon values are in the communities that have to deal with it. Jeff Gregg reminded the Committee that these are planning numbers and he is trying to make the plan regionally cooperative among the towns of Barnstable, Falmouth and Sandwich. Jeff stated that he would need to add a text reminder of the phasing based on matrix prioritization. Mark Gurnee reported on two of his major concerns about the plan:1) the shellfish effort will be large, and when combined with those of Falmouth and other Cape towns will lead to a substantial increase in shellfish on the U.S. market. Many infrastructures should be considered. 1