11/13/2019 ENVIRONMENTAL OVERSIGHT COMMITTEE Minutes

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bridge and creating a trail system on the Mashpee Commons land Town easement to connect with the existing trails. The bridge is too expensive at this time. • Mashpee Environmental Coalition: MEC will be awarding a $1,000 scholarship to a graduating student who will be studying science in college from Mashpee Middle High School. Mashpee CWMP: • DNR/Estuary Restoration/Shellfish Program: o Rick York reported that the algae bloom in Santuit Pond persisted until the end of October and Advisories are still posted. It will continue to persist until the water turns colder. DNR will continue to monitor. o Enforcement: The Shellfish Constable reported that in October a total of 163.25 hours were spent on shellfish patrols which includes 95 contaminated area checks, 20 recreational shellfish license checks, 18 recreational seed checks, 6 commercial license and seed checks, and 36 Shellfish Aquaculture marker and gear checks. Three violations occurred and are currently under investigation with the Mashpee Wampanoag tribal Council, Mashpee Wampanoag Tribal Police, myself, and Massachusetts Environmental Police. Ken Thompson's shellfish transaction card was indefinitely suspended after adjudicatory hearing at the Division of Marine Fisheries in Boston. The Town of Mashpee will put this on record. o Management: Shellfish surveys were conducted in Ockway bay, Little River, and Hamblin Pond. These surveys were conducted for shellfish population assessment and future shellfish seeding area determination. A total of 19 hours were spent assessing shellfish populations and habitat suitability for different species of shellfish. A precautionary shellfish closure was issued by the Division of Marine Fisheries on October the 13th due to the amount of rainfall that was forecasted. The closure did not last because the threshold rainfall total of three inches did not occur in Mashpee. o Propagation: During the month of October the Shellfish Division has devoted a total of 667 hours to the shellfish propagation program. This includes routine upweller (land and floating) maintenance (pumps and intakes) and cleaning, quahog packed volume measurements , bottom grow out tray removal and cleaning, predator net construction and deployment, remote set oyster tray maintenance, floating oyster bag maintenance, oyster weight, and size measurements, and finally oyster size class sorting. In October, they were able to plant the remainder of 2019's quahogs: 3 million under predator netting at the mouth of Great and Little River, Hamblin Pond, Jehu Pond, and the Little River Complex, and 1.4 million broadcasted into family areas in Waquoit Bay, Hamblin Pond, Little River, and Great River. 96 % of the quahogs ordered this year made it to field plant size by the end of October. Both land based upweller tanks have been shut down and shrink wrapped for the winter. All floating dock floating upweller systems were also shut down, silos were removed and stored for the winter. Quahog bottom grow-out trays were taken out of the water,pressure