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pumpout "caddy" is also being ordered to serve as a Report of the shoreside facility. Now Mashpee will have boat Harbormaster Department sewage pumpout facilities in both Waquoit Bay and Popponesset Bay. To the Honorable Board of Selectmen and the Dredging Citizens of Mashpee: This has been one more busy season and all went The Harbormaster Department and Waterways well. Commission are planning to get some dredging pro- jects started.First engineering and permitting has to be Navigational Aids done. With luck and money, if the new Barnstable County Dredge and the permits are completed, we can We bought, assembled and placed 34 new red and do some dredging next winter. green buoys that serve as navigation aids in the coastal waters. We also placed new swim area and Slow, No Public Access Wake signs. Now the aids total more than 140. The newer buoys work well and we will be adding a few We have been working on developing new public more. access ways to water over Town owned waterfront lots. The first new access site is to be a 4 car parking Other Equipment lot off Monomoscoy Road to Hamblin Pond. R We put up several new signs at boat ramps and Moorings channel entrances. The Mooring Database was re-designed and all data _ responsive system and t � We maintained the boats and motors in-house as re-entered to make a more respo y o much as possible to hold down costs, improve accuracy. We produced a new mooring bill and boating data questionnaire format that simplifies We took delivery of a new truck, patrol boat and the billing and data entry process. outboard motor, and outfitted them. The Harbormaster department will have a few Education rental moorings available this summer for overnight, weekend, or weekly use by transient boaters. These We handed out the Mashpee Safe Boating Brochure will be in bath Waquoit Bay and Popponesset Bay and the State Boaters Guide Safety Booklet every time areas. we had to stop someone, and periodically passed on tidbits of information through the local newspaper. Thanks Bass Fishing Tournaments I would like to thank all the assistant harbormasters and the waterways commissioners who donate their This summer, bass fishing tournaments are set with time to help keep the Mashpee waterways attractive 7:00 AM start times and one of them is planned to be and safer. A special thanks to Jim Hanks for his work a youth fishing tournament. That should be fun for the on the pumpout grant. kids. We would also like to thank the marinas in the town Boat Sewage Disposal Facilities for their continuing cooperation and support. In 19949 we put "Bouse House" portable toilets at Thanks too to all the fine Departments that make the public boat ramps at Great River, toff Great Oak Mashpee a nice place to live. Rd.), and Pirates Cove (on the end of Mashpee Neck Road).We will be having them again this year because Conclusions they were used a lot. Little River Boat Yard operated a pumpout Boat in the Waquoit Bay area in 1994. So please have a safe boating season. Remember- be courteous, slow down, and don't make a wake(NO A new boat sewage pumpout boat will be added this WAKE) in posted areas or near other watercraftlo summer,bought with 75% matching grant money pro- Please!! DO NOT LITTER. vided through the Mass Department of Environmental Protection Division of Fish Wildlife and Law Respectfully Submitted, Enforcement by Clean Vessel Act funds. A portable Perry Ellis Harbormaster , 88