4/2/1998 SEWER COMMISSION Minutes

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Tom heard the issue with that is viruses. Mr. wood said that is the issue raised. Viruses are so hard to measure. He does not know of any study done. Its an issue many people would like the State to reconsider. He thinks the golf courses located next to Nantucket sound mould make a great location. You need an alternate facility Nov. -April. Where would the optimum location be for discharge of effluent? Mr. wood said along Nantucket Sound near New Seabury golf course. Disposal of treated wastewater would not impact continued use of the golf course. Can be done to a variety of ways: i in the ground-Mice as expensive to build chamber or trenches and put grass on top than to use open sand filters and it uses about 3 times as much land. Open sand filters: have a longer life span. Maintenance is just raking the bed. Sand filters next to a golf course, owners would have to consider it non offensive to the golf course use. Question is are there other places in town better than the current Mashpee Commons plant sand filter beds, which are fairly close to the Mashpee River. The further you are from the stream the less likely it is that effluent will get into the nearest point of the stream. Options are moving it further to the west but not into Quashnet basin or further south. This would benefit the Mashpee River. Properties which are possibilities: other than New Seaury golf course) - Great Neck Rd. South-Church. It at first looked like an attractive site to Mr. wood but then the question was raised whether Okway Bay is in as much trouble as the upper Mashpee Diver. He does not have that answer. Popponesset Bay has enough flushing. Ketters property - 1,800 feet further south -Within Mashpee Commons property: stings Rd/Jobs Fishing Rd area, any open land. From those locations, effluent would still make it into Mashpee River but much closer to Pppneset Bay. Cost: 3 elements: Cost of"pushing"the water-pump station capital and energy cost, cost of actual pipe, including cost of tearing up.roads, cost of effluent infiltration areas. Brad appreciates there coming before the Sewer Commission, can see they care about the River. e thinks everyone should work together to try to get this accomplished. What it VAR cost how it will be presented to the town, within the time fira ne Fields Point is looking.for. what does Fields Point expect from the Seer Commission, for this plan, within their time fine. Doug Storrs responded that zoning is one step, and then the permitting process, that is where a lot of the details Va'11 be worked out. Mashpee Commons build out is 20-30 years. All of this effluent will not happen tomorrow. They may continue disposal where they are for a period then maybe have an interim location until other users are brought forward so here is enough flow to distribute the costs and make this viable. That will take awhile to work through. Tom thinks that over the next 3-4 months they have to come up with a reasonable scenario, some