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For May,2013 Annual Town Meeting <br /> Article <br /> To see if the Town will vote to reauthorize the Waquoit Bay MEP Account and to <br /> appropriate and transfer from available funds $8328 to said account, to be expended <br /> under the direction of the Sewer Commission, as local matching funds, in conjunction <br /> with the Town of Falmouth,toward completion of the Massachusetts Estuaries Project <br /> report regarding critical nitrogen loading thresholds for Waquoit Bay, Eel Pond and <br /> Childs River,or take any other action related thereto. <br /> Submitted by Sewer Commission <br /> Explanation: <br /> Under Article 18 at the October 16, 2006 Annual Town Meeting, the Town voted <br /> $23,625 toward a portion (25%) of the costs of the Massachusetts Estuaries Project <br /> (MEP) report regarding critical nitrogen loading thresholds for Waquoit Bay (central <br /> basin),Childs River and Eel Pond,with the remaining local matching funds to be paid by <br /> the Town of Falmouth. The work was contracted and the Draft Report has been <br /> completed,for which$15,297 was expended. This article seeks to re-instate funding for <br /> Mashpee's remaining $8328 share of the funds needed to complete the final report. <br /> (The 2006 appropriation was extended for an additional three years in 2009,but further <br /> extension in October 2012 was inadvertently missed.) <br />