4/27/2006 CONSERVATION COMMISSION Minutes

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rx I AFCEE update. Steve said the cranberry bogs are being cleaned up. They are trying to solve the ATV problem as much as we are. They are responsible for maintenance of the roads out there. They can actually see the light at the end of the tunnel. Peggy Fantozzi is monitoring the bogs as usual. The feasibility study is in full swing. They are getting all those involved to the table, saying the end is in sight, and what are we going to d . That Will be crucial for a cost analysis. 4. Nitrogen Deposition Conference. Steve said they raised a lot of questions about the impact of + atmospheric nitrogen in Mashpee. He thinks they put it at 4% of the deposition load. They say it is close to 12-13%. It can be coning from Ohio, Indiana, the Long Island/New York City area. Mchael said he's heard 30-40%mentioned. Steve said there was one success story in the Tampa Bay area. They had a problem in 1975, so they had the whole place sewered. Michael said that number is 48-50%. Steve said even if Mashpee implemented that right now, we're looking at 2025 before we see any positive effect. Michael said that]eased on the Massachusetts estuary studies being done,they had a discussion concerning impacts from landscaping and storm water runoff, and the number they have been using for our nitrogen target is probably high. Our regulation gives us the riga to make that change. We can bring that number down. Beverly Cain said based on what is corning out of the DEQl rogram, in order to have a positive impact on opponesset and waquoit Bays, that number is high, and we should be brig it down. Mchael thinks the Regulations Sub-Committee should take a look at this in the future and talk about whether or not we should be doing that. what would happen if we would have to do a denite to meet those numbers. Michael said maybe we would have to specify certain systems that would meet those targets. Most people want to do the right thing as long as there's an alternative. 5. Approval of minutes for 3/16/06. Motion made, seconded and unanimously carried to approve the minutes for 3/16/06. 6. Blue Ribbon Committee. Steve said John Miller stopped by the office today. Steve wants t do a short checklist of his ideas to be approved by the Commission regarding establishing a Nitrogen Committee or a Storm water Committee, which will focus on the nitrogen deposition issue. Town should consider by-law for nitrogen issue, as well as a committee. Nfichael said the point he made to the Blue Ribbon Committee was that because we are dealing with overcoming marketing campaigns and a lack of i