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A smaller budget than ever has clearly slowed our pro- Report of the gress. However, we are committed to doing the best we Sewer Commission can under the circumstances. Respectfully submitted, To the Honorable Board of Selectmen F. Thomas Fudala, Chairman and the Citizens of the Town of Mashpee: John Doherty David Cohen As Chairman, I am pleased to submit, on behalf of the Mashpee Sewer Commission, our 1990 Annual Report. As in our previous two years,we cannot yet report that the Town has entered the sewer business as an operating agency.With the downturn in the real estate development business,our proposals for private funding of four Town Report of the wastewater treatment facilities,to serve the northeastern western, central and southern parts of the Town, hav� Sealer of Weights & Measures not advanced much beyond where they were last year. The east Mashpee facility, which gave rise to the forma- tion of the Commission and on which great progress had To the Honorable Board of Selectmen been made,is now dead due to an adverse Town Meeting and the Citizens of the Town of Mashpee: vote and the collapse of the Willowbend development. We have had tentative discussions with possible pur- Herewith is my report for the testing and sealing of chasers of Willowbend regarding Town operation of their weighing and measuring devices conducted in the Town facility, but any results are a long way off at this point. of Mashpee in accordance with the laws of the In west and south Mashpee,no significant progress has Commonwealth. been made. Our south Mashpee proposal relies entirely A total of 89 weighing and measuring devices were on discussions with New Seabury Company related to tested for accuracy and condition. Those devices that met potential combination of treatment facilities which will the prescribed standards were sealed; some were adjusted be required for their Promontory Point, Section 5 and and sealed; some were not sealed. Bufflehead Bay projects. To date, no agreements have been reached,and the slow pace of development activity The sum of $989.00 was collected in fees as of means that our project will likely move slowly as well. December 31, 1990 and paid to the Town Treasurer. We were able to reach an agreement acceptable to either party with regard to two other treatment plants which The State prohibits the sale or advertising of wood by New Seabury will proceed to construct near the Pop- the cord. Wood will be advertised and sold by the cubic ponesset Marketplace and at a proposed hotel and con- foot; also a bill of sale must be presented to the consumer ference center near the Country Club. We did,however, by the seller with the buyer's name and address, and the engage the consulting firm of Dames&Moore to develop seller's name and address, plus the amount of wood in schematic plans and cost figures for two alternate sewer cubic feet and total price. systems on Monomoscoy and Seconsett Islands. One alternate, involving an on-island treatment facility and For the consumer's protection when wood is delivered collection system, was projected to cost $4,690,416. A we suggest measuring the wood before it is accepted and collection system only,to be connected to off-island treat- paid for. ment (not included) was projected to cost $3,424,738. Although state grant and loan programs may pay up to I would like to acknowledge the cooperation of the 50 percent of collection system costs in those areas, cor- State's Division of Standards and expecially Inspectors recting the rapidly-deteriorating quality of our waters will Jack Walsh and Tom Hansbury of that office. clearly be an expensive task. In the central area, we have been engaged in discus- Respectfully submitted, sions with a number of developers, the largest of which James M. Crossen is Mashpee Commons, which have funded a Sealer hydrogeologic study of potential treatment facility sites. Based on favorable results of that study, we will be pro- ceeding with the development of formal arrangements for a privately-funded treatment facility and collection system for our commercial and industrial area on Route 28 bet- ween the rotary and the Falmouth town line. Significant progress on that facility is anticipated during 1991. 116