12/4/2007 CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT PROGRAM Minutes

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Capital Improvement Program Committee Minutes December 4, 2007 APPOINTMENTS AND HEARINGS: Sever: Town Planner, Tom Pudala was in attendance to discuss the nitrogen loading problem and wastewater planning efforts to carry out the recommendations of the watershed Nitrogen Management Plan and Effluent Pipeline Prelirm'nary Design study. Estimated disbursements for theflet relocation pipeline and discharge area in FY 2010 annount t $ 00,000. This sum reflects 10° the $8,000,,000 system development cost. The sewer project has been an ongoing line item in future capital improvement program expenditures. The intent of the project is to remove nitrogen from the Popponesset Bay watershed by moving treated wastewater from existing wastewater treatment facilities to a new subsurface discharge area at the New Seabury golf course. The magxiitude of the costs for the facilities required to develop the system will be more definitive next year with the completion of a facilities Plan next summer. The plan will recommend both facilities and management options,which may include the development of a municipal sewer system along with other innovative.approaches to nitrogen reduction or removal. The plan must also submit to an environmental permitting review which is a requirement of MEPA, the DEP and Cape Cod Commission. Discussion followed regarding the Mashpee High School wastewater treatment facility. It was agreed that a meeting would be arranged with the Town Manager, a Selectman representative, the Town Planner, and Board of Health Agent to review further this matter. There are pending issues relative to certification requirements pertaining to the discharge permit issued by DEP. Earth Tech, an environmental firth is currntly reviewing the potential for revisions to the Zone 11 boundaries impacting the MHS discharge facility to alleviate additional expenditures, monitoring requirements and the impact to the high school athletic fields. It was noted the study of the MHS HS treatment facility is considered separate from the Sewer Commission planning level study.