12/7/1978 CONSERVATION COMMISSION Minutes

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1 of work it has to be done at the town Is expense and it could be quite expensive $1-43.,000.00 has been allocated to replace Barrier Beach to its natural state. . Kondochriste o f to d what he thought was an error on #4 of the Notice of Intent where., referr g to distance of runoff., it reads "Sound"* He further said that he -wishes he had the photographs they show that the wave action. brought the water in towards the Bay, not o. towards the ocean. Mrs. DeLory had an old aerial 7potograph ► use for comparison, showing breakthroughs. Mr.- Hennigan r.Hennigan has one map ,that shows it all the way to Cotu t - he has one map from 1893, also 1949 and 1961, the 1949 map shoring hair -far the Spit went over t Barnstable and. C o tu.i t o mr, Hennigan put in a surprise appearance and said haat the reason for the continuance is simply that we need more input from other ,sources so that we can make ,a definitive decision on this project and that's all he can say a the o- ment. He was asked haw they are expected to recover those sands. The propos- ition, as it is understood, is to r ecaver the material that has core off of the Spit to the inward nide aa you dig it up and put 'it on the Spit« Mr. Hennigan was asked if he is going to be using a dredge or a suction pipe and he said he doesn't know., thatis why we're having a continuance - DQE is going to supply us with additional data - they approve, but we need the data. He also said haat the funds that are- available won't be available until the spring and he wants ev ry ,ping to be right so we will be able to get the funds. Mr. LeClair asked for what purpose is all this work to be done and- Mr. Herr nigan said that the maim purpose is to restore the Barrer Beach. He said that the photograph on hand does not depict the actual conditions out then nor � we have three larger coat-throughs right ncw. if the cut�throughs aren't,restored- 4 and stabilized naturally., this whole thing wiU carry away - we Ill have Poppones- set Bay, period - we could put tankers in there. The water level is going to rise a- this is a protective barrier for the Mashpee River Corridor. Mr. Blakeman asked if this involves ,Little Thatch and Thatch Island and he was told it does* one of those is owned by the Audubon Society (not being touched) - Little Thatch is the Ta xi of Mashpeeo Mrs* Studley asked if all of this land belongs to the Town of Mashpee and she was told it does not. Mr. Henm nigan sa.d-that we do have waivers from certain i div due ,. Audubon is willing to go along with it. He also mentioned that the terms are coming back* We want to restore the barrier* and replant in kind with rosy rugosa, etc. � we hope to get this type of media from Barnstable able County Soils and other sources. Af ter we get Barrier Beach up to a certain elevation, thea we want to replant to save it- for the wildlif e and the shell_fish .ng in the Bay, itself. He further said that this is a barrier beach for flood plain re as ons � we want to keep it and if we i don't the whole environment of the Bay will change completely. The water levels will increase and get higher and higher - _ people will bre out there with sandbags. In response to a question from M . Brown, Mr. Hennigan said that we are not going to open up any channels s- nothing to do with dredging , at the moment i doesn't, and he doesn't foresee -that we will be involved with dredging. Mrs. DeLor7 said that one of the biologists suggested building starting from the in land and working outward. Mr. Hennigan said that this is the reason for -the cone- . tinuance get input from experts in the field. At this point,, it was determined that ever body in attendance is ]. for i . 5 Mr,& Brown wondered :.f it wouldn't continue to gash out again and Mro Hennigan �. 2