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unselfishly gave their time to raise funds to preserve methods and looked for dredged material disposal and restore Mashpee's first schoolhouse, the sites that might be suitable. In May we presented our Commission salutes you. We would especially like to findings to the Conservation Commission, since the thank Ray Martini who cares for the Archives only suitable sites we could find were on conservation Building. Most importantly, thank you to the citizens land. The Conservation Commission was vigorously of Mashpee who come to visit us with memories of opposed to any "conversion" of said land to other pur. times past, and who give us encouragement in our poses, and we concluded we had to seek additional alternatives. In Jul we issued a Request for Y q Proposal quest to protect,preserve and maintain Mashpee's pre- cious history. (RFP) for Engineering Services to obtain dredging permits for the Mashpee River. The RFP describes a ` Respectfully submitted, three-step project: P Y Rosemary Burns first investigate the alternatives, prepare a cost Joanne Ferragamo estimate for each, and recommend the two most Frank E. Hicks feasible projects, one involving conservation Gordon Peters land, and another not involving conservation James Moroney land Ann Whitlow, Chairman second, if a suitable location is found and the project looks like it can be completed success- fully, prepare all the necessary applications for review by the Waterways Commission, and, Report of the Waterways Commission third, if it looks like the applications will suc ceed, submit them and follow through until per- mits are obtained. I To the Honorable Board of Selectmen and the If at any point in this process it looks like the pro- Citizens of the Town of Mashpee ject will fail, we have the option of terminating the 1999 was a busy year for the Waterways contract. After the bids were reviewed, the Woods Commission. In our monthly meetings we took public Hole Group was selected, put on contract, and started comment, and we reviewed all applications for shell- Performing the first step of the project. I fish grants and dock permits that were submitted. The h Harbormaster and Shellfish Constable provided Water Quality reports, and these were fully discussed. We continued our support of the Mashpee Maintenance Dredging Watershed Management Committee by working with !' Dr. Brian Howes who is analyzing the nutrient prob- In February 1999 the County Dredge opened up the lems of the Popponesset Bay System. For Mashpee, channel leading to Nantucket Sound, and removed a the water sampling crew is Ed Baker, Pirates Cove; small amount from the channel inside the bay. Rick York, Shellfish Constable; and Waterways ! Commissioners Gerry Daly, Jim Hanks, Paul Dredged materials were placed near the foot of the Lumsden, Don Lund, Herb Silver, and Bill Taylor.On stairway at Wading Place Road, thus protecting the spit from erosion during winter storms. the Barnstable side it is Ken Molloy and the Cotuit Waders". We took water samples once a month from j_ In late December we requested re-authorization of April to October to measure dissolved oxygen, salin- our Army Corps of Engineers permit which expires on ity,temperature,turbidity,and nutrient levels.Samples 1 March 2000. We also requested renewal of the were also gathered to count Coliform Bacteria. The Special Permit from the Department of Forests and results this year show that Oxygen starvation occurs not only in the upper reaches of the Mashpee River but Parks so we can dredge the entrance to Little River and in parts of Popponesset Bay as well. If funding is Great River in the spring of 2000. obtained for developing a wastewater management New Dredging plan for the Town, we plan to continue water quality i monitoring in the Popponesset Bay area and in We have made progress in the quest to obtain Waquoit Bay as well. dredging permits to dredge the Mashpee River. Early in the year we researched alternatives for dredging i 140