11/17/1976 CONSERVATION COMMISSION Minutes

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i Mr. Buckingham said that after we looked at the plans for Bufflehead Bay and he checked out the report in which they were stating the problems , each town might have with septic systems - one we couldn't possibly correct' ' in opponesset - the other one an that area north of Jehu - very sparse findings - poor area for septic systems. Also mapped 400 acres f or South Cape beach for State - they didn't want to o anythinguntil soil sine was completed. Tom Bourgeois asked, of one area- in town could 'be taken f or a survey and Mr. Barker said lois office would map a certain, area. for us., but they don't have a soil scientist on the Cape. { .14r. Jonas suggested we could put some of this on to a developer, - ,in-- } stead of the cost being pt on the town. if there might be a problem, put 4 it on to the developer -- require that he have a soil survey. Mr. Parker~ remarked that they don't have a roan down Dere full time that they map where they have con-,tracts' . Mrs. Sloane said that it would be silly to do it in bits and pieces. The Soil Conservation Service is going to map the whole country - they are the only ones who can do it. (Dept. of Agriculture is the only agency that does it.) Mr. Parker said there are no private companies that reap soils the gray his department does. There are private people who map sous - in Rhode Island they get private contractorsi in Connecticut they have private soil scientists - in Main .0the same way, They use Soil onser-ration Services methods. We have mapped 400 acres of South Cape Beach - mapping 4000 acres, all the land that drains into the Mashpee River, Doesn't know how many acres left in tcwn and price quoted was $12,000,' which includes 10 copies of mapping and'the report. They map the sous and make a soils map. We also get a report which interprets those soils and limitations. The soils map is a public document, but the interpretive maps are the property f the town. You would tell builder, for instance, if-he wanted o de- velop an a particular area, he would have to do such and such because this is ghat our report says, etc. - a guide for lot si e f or sing .e-farr��.lr dwe 11'n g s, e tc. Mr. hoc n tt asked if this test will tell you how the grater will drain, and was told it doesn't replace the ercola �on test. 'r'.,-Le wanted to know what this test is going to tell us and Mr, lrk r said of a man comes t town with a subdai cion of. 50 acres and it is located somewhere in the woods, he would be asked if he knows what the soil is lake in there. Anyone who develops a lame piece of land goes into cluster oning - they have to sup- ply topographical. Yriap and we know ghat the slopes are and it is more or less controlled. Mr. Jonas said he would prefer just a certain area of toim bei ng sur - ve ed.' He thinks we can control erosion.- �r. Barker said that they can't effectively map a piece here and there, that they have to make it for the . . whole town. Talk to the- surrounding towns and see how they've used it - Sandwich, Falmouth, Barnstable ,-- 're the only town that doesn't have one, He suggested we see what the other people have done with it and of it has helped. Brewster uses it constantly. Selectmen have requested information on survey as to price, etc., so they can out it up to 'down 1'oleeting. Mr. Pocknett was introduced by firs. Studley and he mentioned that he *,could lake to start a fish hatchery. He has talked to Dept. of Natural Resources an Bourne - after a couple of years, the thing would run ,itself couple of people could work - would keep river stocked. would like t see a tcTwn forest, but doesn It want to see a lot of things torn up. Sug- gests waking use of land already torn up. Don't tear d(yfn trees to make forest +al,4e a field or bog and plaint a Wrest. T here is pot nti al -or � -,rov-inz the cover in the e is i 'cer t. _ Ynn miaht. an i n Qn ri w)iago