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THE MASHPE�41tRPRISE• FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 2003 Page 11 nts PIn .-Nantucket SoundHobe In Donut Prese roblems By MICHAEL C.BAILEY agement agency, with other.state said that because the federal Approximately 70 people Bath- agencies handling specific man- sanctuaries act did not have a •ered in Admirals Hall on the agement activities ."The EOEA program plan in place until 1983, `-Massachusetts Maritime Academy was responsible for protecting the nomination was never ac- campus for a special presentation designated sanctuaries.fromdevelopment or activi ,"an knowled ed or ursued. `��A�\y ``'� ;�`� P P P Y g P \�\\ \ \ l tions faon the cung Nantucket Soulatory trials and nd.u would damage the ecology or aes- Most of the information pre- thetics of the area,"ineludin the 1983. Mr. Borelli said that Mr. g Bellotti did not press so much for `sented at Wednesday's forum was construction of any sort'of physi- : \� local ownership or control of the �� ".the same information presented cal structure on the seabed. The �� waters, but asked for uniform -in a report issued by the event's _as. report specifically refers to, the management of the area in the organizers, the Center for Coastal ' reclusion of offshore g , P power „ name of natural resource preser- vation. report, commissioned by Con- areas. Nantucket Sound was placed examined William D. Delahunt, The Cape and Islands Ocean on the Site Evaluation List for lo- John Aylmer (left), author of the Massachusetts Ocean examined the regulatory loophole _i Sanctuary is basically:defined as cations under consideration for Sanctuaries Act, spoke about the events that led to a regulatory that exists in the sound, and that - " - the first three miles of ocean;as federal protection. Of the 'four loophole within Nantucket Sound. Robert Jones, president of loophole's history. Armando Carbonell, former measured from the shores of Cape sites in the Northeastern US Re- the Barnstable Town Council, has been working with 13 Cape The evening's four panelists director of the Cape Cod Cod,Martha's Vilneya*,and Nan- Bion under consideration, Stell- and Island towns to revisit the matter. discussed many of the findings in Commission, moderated the tucket. This layout created what wagen Bank was the only one to the report, often adding personal Center for Coastal Studies has come to be called"the hole in receive federal protection. Photographs by MICHAEL 13AILEY/ENTERPRISE' perspectives, as some of the men forum. the donut,"a section of Nantucket Backwards Planning - had played an active role in how Sound surrounded by, but not Although the proposed Cape try historically"does a wondertui He said that Nantucket Sound.is .the regulatory loophole in the reads, "The marine boundaries of included in—the state-protected Cod Wind Farm sited for the job of planning backwards," not the only body of US coastal, sound came to be. The panelists the commonwealth in the area of waters. While the original plan sound was riot the stated impetus meaning that public- policy is water that exists in a "regulatory :included: John F. Aylmer, a for- Nantucket Sound shall be drawn called for the so-called.hole to be for the forum, and was in fact not typically established in reaction vacuum," and that the nation is mer state senator and author of to include the entire area of Nan- included in the designation any- even mentioned until an hour to an event, something that points learning that it must set the Massachusetts Ocean Sanctu- tucket Sound as territorial waters Y policy arses Act; Peter Borrelli, director of the commonwealth." way, that, move was.blocked by into the evening, it was still a out a regulatory loophole or flaw, now in anticipation of future /s- of the Center for Coastal Studies According to the panelists, the the federal government on the presence during the forum. Its "after it is almost already too late sues, including offshore renew- of the Richard Delaney, the for- initial move to have Nantucket basis that the area technically eventual mention prompted a . to do anything. able energy facility siting and qualifies as federal waters. brief discussion about the nature According to Mr. Borelli, the permitting. mer director of Massachusetts Sound named a marine sanctuary "The result is that this one, of land use planning, which Mr. country as a whole is just starting The full CCS report may' be " Coastal Zone Management; and was made in 1970, with the pas- contiguous ecosystem is owned Borelli said is typically "reac- to realize the need to set planning viewed on-line at: Robert Jones, president of the sage of the Massachusetts Ocean „ Barnstable Town Council. Sanctuaries Act. "The legislative and managed by two distinct enti- tive. policy for its oceans as a proac- http://www.coastalstudies.org/coas Barnstable Jones noted that the issue action authorized the creation of ties without a formal, unified Mr. Borelli said that the coun- tive measure, not a reactive one. talsolution/horseshoe.htm. Mr. strategy," the CCS report reads. of who owns the sound reaches as five ocean sanctuaries, with Nan- Mr: Borrelli decried' this frag- far back as the creation of the tucket Sound explicitly included mented approach and stated that Massachusetts General Laws. He within the Cape and Islands a "holistic" approach to manage- referred specifically to Chapter 1, Ocean Sanctuary," reads the CCS mentwas necessary. Wind Farm Foes- Blast Report Section 3, which defines marine report. In 1980, Francis X.Bellotti,the boundaries of the commonwealth, The act made the Massachu- state's attorney general at the By MICHAEL C.BAILEY sels would likely run aground be- there is between thy' oweLa," not- and specifically to the last para- setts Executive Office of Envi- time, nominated Nantucket A new report assessing the fore getting close to a turbine. ing that many people can't envi- graph of that section, which ronmental Affairs the lead man- Sound for National Marine Sanc- proposed.Cape Cod Wind Farm's Most commercial travel lanes sion the space between each of tuary status under.the National risk to boaters is coming under :through the . sound take ships the turbines. ch turbine is TheMarine area was nominated for pro- fiance project Protect Nantuckelt aroundEven.if a collision were to oc- mileato a halfe shoal. -mil ata third of a r �• ., way from its tection due to its value as a"habi- Sound. cur, the report states that the im- neighbor. To out this in context, tat area, species area, unique The 31-page Risk Assessment pact would be insufficient to the report illustrates that the area and a recreational and aes- Report, prepared for the US cause a turbine to fall. Each tur- largest Steamship'Authority ves- thetic area" to the Cape and Is- Coast Guard"by the ESS Croup bine would be planted 60 feet into sel on Cape Cod, the 233-foot Ea- lands region. Inc. of Wellesley, details several the ocean bed, gle, would have up`to nine ship Mr. Borelli said that Mr. Bel- Possible hazards the wind farm Because each turbine'would be lengths between turbines. This, lotti's main argument was that the could pose to maritime navigation equipped with warning lights and Mr. Rodgers said, shows that sound possessed many qualities and draws the conclusion that the bear individual markings, the re- boaters that do travel into the that affected the region's two installation poses a "manage- port states that small boats in dis- wind farm area have%a main sources of income at the able"risk to boaters. The report tress could tie up to a turbine and margin for e >'. time, commercial fishing and also goes so far as to suggest that radio an exact location to the The Coast Guard,`one of nine' tourism,and failure to protect the the wind farm's 130 417-foot-tall Coast Guard.,The wind farm's op- federal agencies /that will com- sound could threaten those two turbines 'could aid Coast Guard erations center could then tem- ment on maritime'navigation is- industries. rescue operations. porarily shut down the turbines sues for the project's Environ- Richard Delaney (left), the former director of.Massachlzsetts According to Mr. Borelli, the .The report, states that -most to.facilitate rescue. mental Impact Statement (EIS),. Nati6nal,Oreanographic and At- large boats 'are not at risk be- Accordingto Mark Rodgers, di'' has reviewed the�e'p t,and su Coastal Zone Management,and Peter. Borrelli, dlrectd of the t , 7l.. mospheric Administration . cause,xhe_chnsen site:=fur the-wind• rector- of communications for ',mitted it to't Arfi y s f Center for Coastal Studies, discussed the regulatory history of (NOAA) would'^ ve'been named firm,`°'I orsesh'oe 'Salioal, i`s'`'tod� Ca e'"Wind the report' "usesEngineers, ,aiie feat " 7 'r' Nantucket Sound at a public forum at the Massachusetts as having oV;` l' responsibility shallow for large boats to 'navi- graphics and simulations to illus""' Maritime Academy. for the area. However,Mr.Borelli gate through, and such larger ves- trate just how much .distance Continued on Page 17 �►' KEVIN Mashpee Water District .■ PEASE �� SCHOOL N -0TICE We regetting, 1 ,® OF TENNIS The Mashpee Water District will be flushingwater mains » 1 USPTA/USPTR Certified throughout Mashpee 8:00 am to 4:00 pm during the months our own rooms;. of May, June and September. 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