1/22/1988 CONSERVATION COMMISSION Minutes

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Draina8t Easement January 26, 1988 Page 6. MATTHEW PTRICF , .,Chairman of Citizens for the Protection of Waquoit B The State has spent an awful lot of money and will spend moire on aq o i . Bay, the Quashnet River Valley and its environments -arid Johns Pond feeds directly into the Quashnet River. The mouth of your. runoff is not -even 300 feet assay from the. Quashnet River. I think i -is in- credible the Town is going to': al low this to,-happen in -'l'igh�" - the Base' s -expansion; who knows where anything is going to go. I think it should be retained on the- Base property,- probably even seat ' t lour septic system up there and treated there. It should not ! e all'o-wed off the #Base property. If you thing you had trouble with other -or i - ation , you are going to have a hell of a lot of trouble, with us i you intentl t,.ointent go through with this. We have 7000 members in our orgari�- iation and can write an awful lot of . letters if you dog GERRY ORLANDO: How long has this- 'easement been in existence? BROGNA: The drains have beey) in existence f'o at- least - years in its present con f i Sur at i on. Prior to maybe- some of the expansion -of the run '{ ways in the mid-sixties, it.. may have been there but not in ,its present configuration. RICH M ILL : Care you bring up the overhead picture of the easement, and its appoac to- Johns Pond, it will add a lot to what ,I have to say? (Col . BroSnia complied) This system was constructed when all of these pipes and whatnot. - that you have running down in the ground which would handle, I assume, the runoff from your runways, parking area, , cleaning areas -for the ai rcraft and they al l converge downhi l l and F,approach Johns PondI f this bite- were to be' constructed today. and-. we "i are sitting Dere, a group of 'pe'ople very concerned with t o enviro en we also -appre- late the fact that we are talking to the protectors of the nati-on., I- am a ,dormer a -i tor, I know what goes on . the runways to take the'9ice o f f. ouL don' t----pint sand on runways because you drag sand into the 'reciprocating : eng-fines and ruin them. I don' t' know if you use Urea on the runway, but this. -isommonly used to remove ice. All of this comes along and the only thing' we have addressed mere is the wells, what we' ire- monitored. below the surface, but I ask both of you gentlemen, would you% take cup ,and sit at the end of the easement, fill the cup with wader and drink it Mould you - do that; - if the an +e-r is no, then' I think we - have a problem S If you w,ere designing this site today, I{ doubt it would be designed this way. I doubt i't wou.ld be app- roved if it were designed today. I thinly you have a big problem and I don' t th'ink that problem shouldL intrudeJohn's. -Pond or Ashumet Pond that were designed a m i l l i.on gears ago by' - a gl .b i r that went through.. . are very lucky y to have these ponds and _they Ore finery, very fr gi le and cannot accept this kind . of treatment. - You have to cone up. with ars alternati e. I think, this -Board, to allow this lid'ense to be iss ed, would be doing a terrible disservice to the Conservation it protects. BRCCi = The licensing. question by the ACOE terminates right Fere. Dr. McDonald who owns thO Trailer Park has tentat igve l y consented to an easement so we will probably have an easement in a very short period of time. 1u asked t�e question a moment ago, would I drink down, her - RJL ight nowywithout knowing what infiltrates it from here back up to the base, I. 9would definitely say no. I ILLY: How about up -ere? .(Pointing-'.. to the base area) _ A; Up -at the end of the base , -maybe, I would. Look at the water , bas-ed on the times that we have s i n i i cant flows y o.f water from the bass, the vast majority of - ti es there is very little water from the base that comes down into this area, at least over the .dM