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<br /> <br />MINUTES <br />MASHPEE BOARD OF SEWER COMMISSIONERS <br />THURSDAY, JANUARY 11, 2024, 2:04 p.m. <br />MASHPEE TOWN HALL <br />WAQUOIT MEETING ROOM <br />16 GREAT NECK ROAD NORTH <br />MASHPEE, MA 02649 <br />*In-person, televised meeting* <br /> <br />Present: Vice-Chair, Meredith Harris (via Zoom), Joe Lyons, Phyllis Sprout, Al Towle <br /> <br />Other Attendees: Susan Dangel, President, Save Mashpee Wakeby Pond Alliance <br /> Jared Meader, Town of Mashpee Wastewater Superintendent <br /> Sandra Tripp, GHD <br /> <br />Absent: Chair, Chad Smith <br /> Clerk, Catherine Castaneda <br /> <br />2:00PM – Convene Meeting: Vice-Chair, Meredith Harris called the meeting to order at 2:04PM in open <br />session at Mashpee Town Hall, Waquoit Meeting Room. <br /> <br />PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE <br />MOMENT OF SILENCE <br />PUBLIC PARTICIPATION <br />Susan Dangel, President of the Save Mashpee Wakeby Pond Alliance informed the Commission that the <br />diagnostic pond study regarding data has been completed. She said that there will, hopefully, be a <br />management plan presented to the Select Board in the spring about where the largest sources of nutrients are <br />coming from that are making Mashpee Wakeby Pond look like pea soup. <br />Susan said that she is aware of the very big hurdle that the Town has ahead of them to get the money <br />approved at Town Meeting for the next phase of the sewer project and stated that the Alliance is a 501c4 and <br />are able to lobby, they are able to do advertising and signage, etc. She said they are staunchly behind phase 2 <br />of the sewer plan. They stand ready to help educate in any way that they can and that she thinks it needs to <br />start now. Susan recommended a small version of the Town of Orleans Blue Pages be created as she feels <br />that it helps residents understand why the aquafer and watersheds act like they do and how water affects <br />waterways and waterbodies. <br />Lastly, she reported that the Falmouth Pond Coalition and the Water Management Committee of Falmouth <br />have moved ahead, in earnest, being driven by the Mass TC to put together a 3 year comprehensive urine <br />diversion provisional study. At the end of 3 years, if the data certifies so, DEP will declare it a general use, <br />alternative, septic solution. She stated that the Town Falmouth received $80,000 at November Town Meeting <br />to get the project honed in. They have over 70 interested parties, 6 of them are in Mashpee. The Alliance is <br />hoping to make it an Upper Cape Regional project. <br /> <br />APPOINTMENTS AND HEARINGS <br />None at this Time. <br /> <br /> <br />1 <br /> <br /> <br />