5/24/2018 MASHPEE-WAKEBY LAKE MANAGEMENT COMMITTEE Minutes

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[Agenda topic 31 Fresh Watet.Quality Monitoring Discussion: Mike Rapacz met with Rick York after requesting the past 4 years of water Quality management data. Rick went over it with him. The 2017 data has not yet ben correlated, nor information received back from UMass Dartmouth, The excel sheets of previous years are hard to follow and all in all, data was not well organized. Conclusions: Mike will follow up on this and get the 2017 data from Ed Eichner at UMass, [Agee-da'topic,4] Ste wardship,'Change at Lowell Ho11y. eseivation` Discussion: Barbara reached out to Diane Lang via email and learned that she was now the new manager at Coskata Coatue Wildlife Refuge in Nantucket, and Winslow Dresser had been hired to manage all the properties in the Buzzards Bay Cape Cod South Coast Management Unit, for the Trustees. Barbara invited Winslow to our meetings. He can be reached in the office at 508-636-4693 ext.5011 or by email at wdressera thetrustees.org. His cell number, not for publication, is 774- 364-4408 Conclusions: Winslow Dresser is the new steward for Lowell Holly. [�l,genda thpic Swai1/'Bass Boat Incident Discussion: Via Andrew Gottlieb, the committee received an email from Paul McGrath, a Wakeby resident who has attended our meeting in past years. He told of an incident where his neighbor, Ted Sheehan witnessed a bass boat intentionally run down a swan and severely injure it. The Mashpee Harbormaster, and Sandwich and Mashpee police were notified as was a wildlife rescue organization. As far as Paul knew,the swan was not rescued. Mr. Gotlieb felt that Mr. Collins planned to pursue the matter by contacting the president of the Fall River Bass Anglers, who had the permit for the bass tournament on May 12 when the incident occurred. Conclusions: The injured swan had not been found and the perpetrator remains unknown. The meeting was adjotirned at 8:03 P.M. Respectfully submitted, Barbara B.Nichols