8/18/1998 SOUTH CAPE BEACH ADVISORY Minutes

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5 CB, AUGUST 18P 1998 PAGE THREE Iv DISCUSSION OF SUB-COMMITTEE REPORT: (Cont ' d) Beach; the third was beach nourishment . He stated we have lost 18 feet of parking lot in a number of places from the early 1990 ' s until 1996. "I was d isappointed in reading this paragraph since there was a lot said here that was rejection,, and even though I agree totally with the first phrase, that the town beach facility is not technically within our purview, the sub-committee was going to make statements related 'to it , it would probably b helpful to call the agency that is responsible . " Greg "From what I have seen here, there were a lot of things that were poorly put together , and do not reflect the facts , .I am surprised at the two visits that the sub-committee made, the keen eye of the sub-committee missed that there were six tons of new sand recently placed on the beach* We did what the conservation commission wished ; the drainage generally pitches away from the vineyard Sound side. Any gullies that are on the sound side are not destruction gelated to the park- = -ing lot . The parking lot primarily pitches the o-cher way . It was done the way it was approved , and asked to be done by the conservation commission . " t B .11 a�rtiros stated that he d-id not think we had any business discussing the Town Beach. We have nothing to do with it . tWe are under the auspices of the State . Bill continued, the committee had voted to recommend to the Town that they swap beaches . But nobody presented any good reasons why they should do that . Ohm. Kirsner• responded , and stated , if the town beach is lost by erosion or storm, the simple uncontradicted matter is that the town then would have no town beach and would have to use the new Facility. Winnifred Woods stated she would like to address some of the questions and issues . "The Town Beach facility presents serious concerns both ,in terms of potential ownership by the Commonwealth, if the scrap occurs., and potential negative impacts to the surrounding park lands . The fact of the matter is that the barrier beach is migrating backwards , as all barrier beaches are supposed to ,, The parking lot is a fixed structure on a migrating system. It i the primary dune that protects everything behind it , all of the state land behind it . So . what - goes on at the State Facility certainly should be within the purview of this committee, because it affects the Mate land all around it , even if the swap does not occur. "