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E__ __ 41 The selectmen have adopted policies regarding continua- Two of the remaining seven successful well sites have tion of projects to provide water to the Summer- been the subject of further testing and development. At wood/Asher's Path and Briarwood areas. The Town is no expense to the town, a 24 inch well has been installed legally able to construct and operate a water system in these and tested by a local developer on a town-owned site areas since water will be purchased from Falmouth and known as the T-4. State approval of that well as a public High Wood Water Company(subject to completion of a water supply is expected within two months,at which time satisfactory agreement.) it can be developed to serve the Summerwood/Asher's Path Status of Water Projects — Ashumet: Through an in- area and the Willowbend development. The second site, termunicipal agreement, water is being supplied by still privately owned and known as the P-1#2,has been ful- Falmouth to the areas of Horseshoe Bend Way and Tri- ly tested and approved by the state. Development of that Town Circle. The intent to assess betterments totaling well,to fulfill the town's commitment to Falmouth related $230,000 has been filed with the Registry of Deeds. Each to the Tri-Town Circle and Briarwood areas, awaits public owner was assessed by averaging the square footage of their acquisition of the site. lot and lot frontage. Corner lots are based on '/z of the Further testing on two additional well sites is anticipated radius curve, plus lot footage. The residents have been in 1988 using funds allocated by the 1987 Annual Town notified regarding the procedure to follow to tie into the Meeting. system. Briarwood/Otis Trailer Vallage-Phase I: The water It has been an extremely busy year as we moved the vari- distribution system is designed and ready to put out-to-bid. ous water programs forward and,moved to formulate an It was agreed between the Briarwood Association and the acceptable agreement between the Town and the Mashpee Town that the easement plan would be reviewed by the Water District to transfer water issues to the District.With Planning Board and the town engineer with the goal to ac- the cooperation of all parties involved, and in the best in- complish a road taking plan. Falmouth and Mashpee will terest of the town, this will be accomplished. enter into an"Intermunicipal Agreement"to provide water Respectfully submitted, and maintenance to the system until such time the District assumes the responsibility of this project. B. Jean Thomas, Chairman Department of Defense and Town continue to Andrew R. Gottlieb, Vice-Chairman Negotiate:The town's negotiating team continues to meet Willard L. Hanson, Clerk with the Department of Defense to develop an acceptable compensation agreement to allow the Town to provide a pure source of water supply to Briarwood. Engineer An- Report Of the thony Zuena of SEA Consultants, was hired to provide Historical Commission technical assistance to the town team in calculating ap- propriate figures for the team to review. Summerwood-Asher's Path, Phase I: This project was It is with pleasure and satisfaction that we submit this divided into two phases in order to bring immediate relief report of the activities of the Mashpee Historical Commis- to the Summerwood Complex residents. Town meeting, sion for the year 1987. followed by Proposition 2'/z approval voted$60,000 for We have had an active and productive year, climaxed design and $1,768,000 for construction, including funds by occupancy of the Archives Building in July. In addi- to put the town #4 well into operation. SEA Consultants, tion to monthly evening meetings,members have spent ap- Inc. designed and prepared the construction bid documents proximately one day each week devoted to review of his- for Phase I. D.J. Donahue of Falmouth was successful in torical documents,assembling and classifying acquisitions, his bid of$477,117.71. Note:The delay of reaching a water setting up filing systems and preserving fragile documents. supply agreement with High Wood Water and an easement The Historical Commission was extremely fortunate agreement with the Summerwood Trustees, Mr. Donahue when a positive response was received in reply to an ap- was unable to hold his bid. The Board will revaluate the peal we made to a major national corporation for finan- entire project before seeking new bids. tial assistance. In September a gift in the amount of ten Mashpee Test Well Program:Under the auspices of the thousand dollars was donated to the Mashpee Historical Water Quality Advisory Committee and the Board of Commission "to assist in the collection and preservation Water Commissioners,an extensive test well program has of historical information . . . and to establish a Research been carried out throughout town in 1986 and 1987. Fif- Center and Library open and available to students, teen 2'/z inch test wells were drilled on'seven sites,of which scholars, historians and the general public . . . as a center eight, on five sites were very promising. Three of the suc- of information on the history of the Town of Mashpee and cessful wells are on town-owned sites in each Mashpee.The the Wampanoag Indians."The donor specified anonomi- remaining five were on private lands. One has since been ty.None of the money is to be spent for operating expenses lost to housing development. of the Commission. It is anticipated that these funds will be used over the next several years in fulfilling our corn- mitment to the donor. i - 112 -