11/15/2018 COMMUNITY PRESERVATION ACT COMMITTEE Minutes

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S Community Preservation Committee Minutes November 15, 2018 Applicant: Andrew McManus Conservation Department Proposal Title: Conservation Land Restoration Upper Quashnet River: $320,000: (cont'd) Mr. McManus explained the Town has been negotiating with the Air National Guard for remediation funding. Through negotiations, the Town has secured funding in the amount of $844,000. Money to go towards the actual construction of the restoration project. The Conservation Department is before the Community Preservation Committee to seek funding in the amount of$320,000 for planning and permitting at the local, state and federal levels. Work would include data collection, field work planning and permitting. The Horsley Witten Group has worked with the Town in the past and would complete this phase of the environmental restoration. It is estimated this process may take two years. Additional funding is estimated to cost $350,000. The funding has not been secured to complete the project which is anticipated to take 4-5 years. The site was once a premier rich river system providing habitat for Sea Run Brook Trout and a variety of aquatic life including a herring run. Mr. McManus indicated this is a historic recreational site for the Town of Mashpee and beyond. Completion of the project would provide a tremendous benefit to the citizens of the town, for education and to restore recreational activities. Letters of support include; the U.S. Department of the Interior Fish& Wildlife Services and Division of Fisheries & Wildlife respectfully dated November 15, 2018. Applicant: Mashpee Conservation Commission and Falmouth Rod & Gun Club Proposal Title: Garner Bogs/Upper Childs River Restoration Project: $240,510: It was disclosed the Association to Preserve Cape Cod where Mr. Gottlieb serves as Executive Director has contributed monies to this project. The APCC and Mr. Gottlieb are not a part of the funding request before the Community Preservation Committee. Ken Bates, Chair of the Waterways Commission was in attendance with Gary Anderson of the Falmouth Rod & Gun Club to request CPA funding in the amount of$240,510 to assist with the restoration of the Garner Bogs and Upper Childs River project. The goal of the project is to create a cold water fishery in the Upper Childs River and restore the abandoned Garner and Farley cranberry bogs to wetlands. The land and waters are a part of the Towns of Mashpee and Falmouth, and lie within the Mashpee National Wildlife Refuge. The northern portion of the cranberry bogs fall within the Town of Mashpee. The applicant is the Mashpee Conservation Commission with the Falmouth Rod & Gun serving as co-applicant. The restoration project has been endorsed by the Mashpee Board of Selectmen, Conservation Commission and the Mashpee Town Meeting.