4/2/1998 SEWER COMMISSION Minutes

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w MASHY MASItPEE SEER CoMNUSSI N MEETING MP41UTES THURSDAY,APB 2, 1 - TOWN HALL Present: Dennis Balzarini, Brad Caffyn, Toni Fudala, John C llahane Duncan hod from Sanborn,,Head and Associates; Doug Storrs, John Rent, Buff Chase from Fields Point; Andy Gottlieb Meeting was called to order at 7:06 p.m. MINUTES S Dennis made a motion to accept the minutes of February 11, 1998. Brad seconded the mots on. All members were in favor - DISCUSSION WITH DUNCAN WOODIFIELDS POINT Duncan wood and Michael Quinlan of Sanbom,Head and Associates, consultants to Fields Point, were present to discuss wastewater options for the ton of Mashpee with the Severer Commission. He prepared a memo (attached) "wastewater Management Overview Conventional and Non-Conventional Alternatives'' for the Committee's review and discussion. Mr. wood began his presentation by stating that agreeing on implementation and a way to fund a wastewater management system and getting a town to support it is harder than the technical part f designing it. e discussed possibilities for structuring use of a remote discharge field, for plants which must discharge at a more preferable location. A Sewer District or Commission would own a discharge location and charge people to use it. e presented handouts of naps from the Earth Tech study of Nov. 1996, representative of re- charge areas. Torn said they have been updated since,they have done a new set of zone R maps. e also had handouts of nitrogen loading analysis for the proposed Mashpee Commons project. Doug Storrs, Buff Chase and John Rent jo 1 ned the meeting. Everyone then went through the memo section by section. Duncan used his experience of the year with other communities and what he already knows about Mashpee and developed this memo. History: his experience in wastewater planing. 1n the 19 `o's US EPA was sewering every town but soon discovered there was not enough money to do that. It then came down to a triage system. So toms with sandy soils, reasonably functioning septic systems and small populations were taken off the funding list. However there are other issues. Nitrate issue is the most difficult because septic systems do not do a good job removing nurates. This lead to tertiary treatment issues.