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Minutes Mashpee Waterways Commission <br /> Mashpee Town Hall <br /> 16 Great Neck Road North <br /> Mashpee, MA 02649 <br /> Date: 10/8/2019 <br /> Chairman Ken Bates opened the meeting at 9:03am in the South Cape Meeting Room <br /> Attendees: Ken Bates,Tim Leedham,Steve Mone and Dick Noonan.Also present:Ashley <br /> Fisher,Jeff Smith and Rick York <br /> Absent: Don McDonald,Al Wickel and Gregg Fraser <br /> Minutes: <br /> The following minutes were approved as amended:The regular session of Tuesday September <br /> 10,2019. Motion to accept made by Tim Leedham and seconded by Dick Noonan. <br /> Unanimously approved as amended by all those present. <br /> Appointments&Information Sessions: <br /> -None <br /> Communications&Correspondence: <br /> - Ken provided a summary of the Cape Cod Coastal Planning Workshop he attended on <br /> 10/7/19.The Cape Cod Coastal Planner is a new decision support tool for Communities <br /> investigating the environmental and sociology-economic effect of coastal hazards and local <br /> and regional resiliency strategies. It is funded by a NOAA Coastal Resilience grant.The tool <br /> helps to communicate vulnerabilities and compare planning scenarios for sea level rise,erosion <br /> and storm surge. Ken felt it was a good seminar with valuable information and seemed most <br /> appropriate for Town Management. <br /> Old Business: <br /> Harbormaster Report: <br /> - Jeff smith reported that in general boat traffic has decreased with the end of the season <br /> -The Harbormaster also reported that the office spent 110 hours on patrol and interacted with <br /> 25 vessels, issuing 10 warnings but no citations. <br /> -The AHM provided assistance on 2 minor incidents:a disable boat on a sandbar in Waquoit <br /> Bay and a vehicle found on John's Pond <br /> -All swim buoys removed from John's Pond, Mashpee/Wakeby Pond and South Cape Beach <br /> - HM Office removed 9 moorings for non payment and failure to maintain. <br /> - Began preparations to remove buoys and install winter sticks in all waters. <br /> DNR Director/Shellfish Constable Report: <br /> - In September there were a total of 180 hrs of shellfish patrols: 120 contaminated area <br /> checks, 50 recreational license checks,50 recreational seed checks,28 commercial license <br /> and seed checks,29 aquaculture marker and gear checks and 1 vibrio compliance check. <br /> - Shellfish surveys were conducted in the northern portion of Hamblin Pond for shellfish <br /> population assessment and future seeding area determination. <br /> - Shellfish bioremediation studies were conducted twice on Little River to measure the total <br /> amount of nitrogen adult oysters and quahogs are capable of removing in a set amount of <br /> time with known concentration. Date now being processed by UMass Dartmouth. <br /> - During September the Shellfish Division devoted 577 hours to shellfish propagation.This <br /> included routine upweller maintenance and cleaning,quahog size class sorting&measuring, <br /> bottom grow out tray cleaning, predator net construction&deployment and oyster bag <br /> splitting,floating bag maintenance and weights&size measurements. <br /> - 1.2 million quahogs were seeded under predator netting at mouth of Great&Little Rivers and <br /> in Hamblin Pond. <br /> - Mashpee Shellfish Division along with Falmouth Marine and Environmental Affairs seeded <br /> over 70,000 scallops in Waquoit Bay.The goal is to enhance the family and commercial <br /> fishery. <br /> -The Shellfish Division spent a total of 19 hours collecting and sampling for water quality, <br /> conducting routine sampling of 5 sentinel stations in Mashpee.Santuit was noted to have <br />