12/16/1976 CONSERVATION COMMISSION Minutes

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if . Buckingham presented a copy of the report "Subsurface Leachate isc arge -,-into John's Pond, Mashpe It (Environmental Tana�ement In- stitute.) n- s ti Lute. Ile was talking t Kerfoot the other night and said' erfoot is quite sure that we would be male to get money tinder the 301 program for lake restoration and it will tl".e in with this grant that the Conservation Commission will be sponsoring with him. We will have a meeting after the holidays and talk it over. He Is willing to go, ahead with all the ecre- tarial work for the applications for these grants. Should have a meeting with the citizens of the town and hopefully the funds Will available by ate spring or early summer - it may not be necessary to put it in Tom Meeting. Mrs. Studley asked Mr. Pr.r er if the Trustees Res er vati on land is being surveyed and h replied that everything within tie boundaries of the Mashpee River Watershed is being done. 11-tro nuckingham asked if Mrs. Studley had had a chance' to look through a paragraph on acquisition funds - Mrs. Studley looked through it. It was stated that we c an't buy anything, but we will sena for the inf ormtion anFAT a Y. In reference t o the maps, vie should show any-thing that I s o med by the Town, State or Federal overn ent, �r��stees, o � �c��uts, Audubon etc. no matter who owns 't. When we 're deterring what our needs. are, we can subtract out what the Trustees own. mina.l s golf course, for instance, performs a function and should -be on the map. The Mashpee Kiger Corridor was discussed and it was suggested that � pers onl letters be sent to Babb, Behan Sturgis and D'Antu ono 'inviting there to attend the meeting on January 13, 1977. (Dr. 'Antuono was in- cluded because it wit 1 assist the educational.- program within the- school system.) 14x. 'arker stated that the situation is that we have most of the data assembled. We can't come up with any framework of a clan because we don't know what the members s of the community grant -- got to find out the best places to put things - which one do *.ie want - need to know from us,first f all, the alternatives. For instance,, o we -rant picnic areas? We are coring along very well with the data, but need input From the. public, hmich p , w A?1 give there opportunity to mere ahead. Mr. Parked noted that this is one issue that no sanerou could g p op- pose pose - it would be ridiculous to say "Don't plan for the River Corridor." You couldn't actively and publicly oppose it - wait and see what happens with the suit. . Mrs. DeLory mentioned figuring on Thur da g venin either the 3rd or the 10th of February for the meeting - maybe the 10th will be better than the 3rd. Jaruary 13th is the IeLashpee ever Corridor meeting day time meeting at 10.900.) Mr. Parker is r eeting tomorrow$ December* 17, with Peter Sloane and Leonard Beck. At that meeting thev are ruing to be drafting the personal letter which will be sent to the various influential people we wanttD ,haye there. They will also be developing a questionnaire for some kind of p s_ hive resp e, which they will .- ll .fill-out--at the-r�meeting_ and-hand in,---It _. should b a fairly intelligent meeting and they hope a lot of people shoo uta. w should have lot publicity. The publicity is coring f' corn Cape Cod Planning., but there should be an effort rade on the local level. They were asking when we ret last Wednesday how re Ire going to dis- tribute the notification and explanation o the meeting. ire can have the n M r% �#� n v r tom,.,r� T.,...y. 1..,..1 f •.*.L� ..1__ �_! ,3� I%-- . . - It � -0.