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CAPE COD PLANNING & ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT COMMISSION IN 1975 I The growing revolution of regio alrconcernscitizens ThiPartici- Pate public officials has begun a quiet This awareness and willingness to q $ the Cape's d decision new making process will provide a basisfor in the Planning ,± shaping � Programs and new demands arise. S 208 Program: Developing Water Quality Guidelines Clean water for drinkingy economy and quality of life, and for recreation is a resource vital to the Cape's economy Cape Cod is designed life. involve The 08 Wastewater Management Planning Program means of Cod is tin Public in determining the most acceptable for water Protecting g our water resources. The program Y management based on the limitations of our waterresources and citizen priorities. Means of i determined b implementing these ° y the planning-citizen Participation process. 11 wi11 also be 1* .. The Amendments to the Water Pollution Control Act of 1972 area-wide planning programs designed to broaden the management Provide for , g problems from a local to a regional level. At t approach r wastewater water quality problems At the •�"r�' With thelitdesignationare addressed on a town-b Present time y-town basis on Cape Cod, of Cape Cod as a 208 agreed to cooperate in developing Planning area last spring, management problems g an areawide a g, towns approach Cape's waste- waterment Com The Cape Cod Planning and Economic Develop- Agency Commission was granted$350,000. by the Environmental Protection Agency in June and the two_ , P- Year planning program is now in its beginning stages. A 208 Citizens Advisor ky y Committee composed of locally < groups has been formed Y appointed repre- sentatives and interested c hf to provide citizen guidance in the development of the program. Technical advice will be offered throughout the program b y a specialists in the water quality ef eldcrepresentingal Advisory Cnvolved OnImittee made up of federal, state, regional, and local level, as well as from agencies at the and research institutions. In p; addition, private educational through public meetings held on a active public participation is sought f quarterly basis. or There are four major J aspects of the 208 program that will be conducted concurrently by the program consultants and alternatives generated will be reviewed b Planning staff. Information and Committees and interested citizens, Y the Citizens and Technical Advisory bra " groups will thus shape the continued work ne response these fourdpriorities of these areas. lr work V g water quality problem Defining v t` develo areas and determining ' p water quality problems will be one of the first majorwhat teasas a 208 Program. This data base will indicate the water quality constraints that must be considered in developing an approach to wastewater management. How we use our land on Cape Cod is Of our groundwater resource and also hasp significant impactarticularly s ont ntourhrecruality ea- tional waters. Alternative land use plans geared particularly to.water quality-related problems will be developed. As the208 pr ogram defines existing and Potential water quality problems, it must explorehow these problems should be managed. of control for each of the defined problems will be presentedeive andt evaluatedmethods. ;rc The major pollution problem on Cape Cod is the disposal of wastewater fro m houses, business and public facilities. The problems of sewage treat- ment facilities and of septic tank disposal will be studied intensively in the l fir' 119