2/17/1977 CONSERVATION COMMISSION Minutes

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r MAS, BB COPISERV T N C01-01ISS O SAL HEARING v DATE: February 17, 1977 Mashpee Town Hall TIME: 7:30 p.m* The meeting was called to order by Chairperson Dorothy Studley, with the following members present: Norman Bias, Pauline Be ory, Charles B okingham Barbara Sloane and Dorothy Studley. Also in attendance, for all or part of the meeting, were: Frank Homeyer, Che ter 'oblin k , Robert Courtemanohe, Selectman Alan Maxim and lion ookne tt.- ter determining that there was a,qqorum present, the hearing was opened for Frank H n ye 's request for a 'pen t under Se ti ori 10 of the Kiger and Harbor~ Act of 1899 and Section 404 'of the- Federal Water Pollution Control Act Amendments of 1972 to: Retain 228.5 linear feet of existing unauthorized con- crete bulkhead and to construct and maintain 30 linear feet of concrete block bulkhead to complete the existing bulkhead and replace eroded fill in the.. Great River at 1111 Sh!)EAS J1 Mays . Al— 110 TO:r e 17 111113 informed at the outset that he hadn't filed all ?-is papers, adding that his original per it was good only for one year locally and that the Corps of Engineers permit issued in 1967, good for 5 years, also had run out. . �r. Home rer e olained that he had been doing it piece-meal so that he could finance it. He offered a picture of what has to be finished a.nd everybody looked at his plan* He was told that he is going to have to finish filling out the ne - esEary forms and send them to F rE in order to get a ni gher* which will be assigned to bin. and go with tie property forever and a day. Mr. Hrie # r said that he has a nuniber from the Corps of Engineers and it was explained to him that it is a state nLnber that's required I'to construct and -main- tain Once it's assigned, he never has to refile, it gces with his property. 1:e said the reason he didn't out it in was due to the Fact that he wanted to go through the Conservation C or-mii s s i on first, then go right to the state and tell them what the C �imission's f:ndings were, He was told-that the Commission in- forms the state of their findings, i t. Flomeyer pointed out that he brought the Harbor Master and the Shellfish War6en with hi.r.i and explained that the, use this place s 0, that i t 15 the only place for the Shellfish ar~den. 'he Fire Bepa.rt�-ment uses his ramp f or rescuing; it is the onl.v ramp in Waquoit 3ay that's in 10slipee. Therefs one across the river, but they can't use it as it is private. `�r. Dias :anted to know thegen- eral location and he was told. that 'i t was on lwl'onomosooy Rd. on the left, almost all the way down., down belo�i Mary Tavares., heading to and the ocean. Mr. horacyer said that all the people use it; the Pocllnett boys haul their boats in and out of there, r Mr. Homeyer stated that he has been a Sheilfizh Deputy and Harbor Master ter Assistant and has cone a lot for the town and never got any money for it adding that he thinks the Ce+us ion should lean little t �raard hi . tom i . . Bias said that we don It +•rant too much cutting into that river and 1.11r. Horleye r pointed out that it's out of his own land, not cutting into the river. Ho. said that he should have done it sooner, but didn't have the money. It was stated that the -way it's built now is a hazard to the flora and fauna, that a retaining wall