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Page 1 of 2 <br /> Tom F. Fudala <br /> From: AAREDEYE@aol.com <br /> Sent: Sunday, December 12, 2010 9:27 AM <br /> To: matthew.patri.ck@mahouse.gov; robert.o'leary@masenate.gov <br /> Cc: Tom F. Fudala; partan@capenews.net;jjmsc@comcast.net; burt@burtkaplan.net; klenert1@comcast.net; <br /> capecodjcliff@aol.com; ralphmarilyn@verizon.net; tomfudala@comcast.net; amos110@msn.com; <br /> kehrl@capenews.net; bhowes@umass.edu <br /> Subject: Help required ...Two areas. <br /> First Area: <br /> The town of Mashpee is preparing a documented plan to correct the Nitrogen <br /> pollution in two of Cape Cods largest estuaries. Preparation of this plan has been <br /> possible by years of professional endeavors sponsored by Tom Fudula, the Mashpee <br /> Town Planner. <br /> Mashpee, thanks to Tom, has done it's homework developing a sound technical basis <br /> and alternative solutions that now need implementing. <br /> Here's the rub. There are two watersheds in Mashpee. The western or Wequoit <br /> watershed contains some Falmouth and Sandwich properties. The <br /> Eastern or Popponesset watershed contains some properties in Sandwich and <br /> Barnstable. <br /> Without a legislative solution requiring all pollution contributors of these estuaries to <br /> be included in the watershed plan, effective solutions can not be implemented. <br /> Presently local officials look like a deer frozen in the headlights of a speeding car. <br /> Resolution will require indulgence at the State level. <br /> Legislation assigning watershed responsibility to the major polluter, and requiring <br /> minor polluters to participate on an equal incremental basis would allow solutions to <br /> be implemented. Since Nitrogen pollution is population based, mutual costs can be <br /> assessed on that basis. <br /> Second Area: <br /> The tremendous cost of cleaning up the ongoing Nitrogen pollution will be a significant <br /> burden to all involved. This burden can be lightened by the following two alternative <br /> solutions in returning clean waste water to our environment. <br /> Output of clean waste water from processing plants today contains about 10 mg / liter <br /> of Nitrogen. While this meets the clean water act for drinking water, it is an excessive <br /> amount of Nitrogen being dumped into our estuaries. <br /> The best cost saving solution would be to avoid returning this clean waste water <br /> containing 10 mg / liter of Nitrogen to our watersheds, where it leaches into our <br /> Nitrogen polluted estuaries. An outflow pipe properly placed into the Nantucket sound <br /> where tidal flow offshore will disperse this clean waste water is a permanent effective <br /> solution with no downside. Current legislation exists that prevent "New" outflow pipes <br /> 12/13/2010 <br />