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Explanation: This article appropriates money to fund Permits already exist for the Popponesset Bay and required budget adjustments in the Building Waquoit Bay dredging; the cost ranges from$4.52 to Department and Planning Department. $7.00 per cubic yard depending on the length of pipe Recommendation: The Finance Committee recom- required. mends approval. Recommendation: The Finance Committee recom- Motion made by Selectman Leveille. mends approval. Motion made by Selectman Blythe. Motion: I move the Town vote to appropriate and transfer from Revenue Available for Appropriation Motion: I move the Town vote to appropriate and $1,053.64 to the Building Inspector Salary/Wage transfer $47,000 from the Waterways Improvement Account and $240 to the Planning Department Account said funds to be distributed as follows: Salary/Wage Account. $17,000 to the Waterways Equipment Account; Motion passes unanimously at 8:44 p.m. $30,000 to the Waterways Maintenance Account. a ARTICLE 8 Motion passes unanimously at 8:46 p.m. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate or ARTICLE 10 transfer from available funds $35,000 to the Mashpee To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate or River Dredging Permit Account,to be expended under transfer from available funds $405,140 to the Sewer the direction of the Board of Selectmen, or take any Commission Facilities Plan Account, to be expended l other action relating thereto. under the direction of the Sewer Commission for con- t sultant services and associated costs related to the Submitted by the Waterways Commission I development of a Watershed Nitrogen Management Explanation: This article seeks supplemental funding Plan/Effluent Pipeline Preliminary Design,or take any for obtaining permits to dredge the Mashpee River. other action relating thereto. l Permits for dredging the Mashpee River are in the 1 process of being obtained, and costs of this effort are Submitted by Sewer Commission 1 expected to exceed the balance remaining in the Explanation: The Mashpee River, Ockway Bay, account previously established for this purpose. A Shoestring Bay,parts of Popponesset Bay and portions better estimate will be available by Town Meeting,but of the Waquoit Bay estuary have seen rapidly declin- r at this time we are using our best estimate. ing water quality, fish and shellfish kills caused by It Recommendation: The Finance Committee recom- inadequate oxygen levels, excessive algae, foul odors 4 mends approval. and other problems due largely to excessive nitrogen ; t levels. Those nitrogen levels result primarily from the / Motion made by Selectman Taylor. increasing levels of residential development in the watersheds of those bays and the use of traditional Motion: I move the Town vote to appropriate and septic systems for disposal of wastewater. In 1998 the I 11 transfer $35,000 from the Waterways Improvement Town funded the first phase of an effort to deal with Account to the Mashpee River Dredging Account. A Motion passes unanimousl at 8:45 m. those problems. That first phase, a study of critical y P• nitrogen levels in the Popponesset Bay estuary by Dr. T ARTICLE 9 Brian Howes and the U. Mass. Center for Marine h Science and Technology (CMaST), will identify the F To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate or level of nitrogen inputs which can be tolerated by the e _ transfer from available funds, $47,000 to be distrib- Mashpee River, Shoestring Bay, Ockway Bay and the C uted as follows: $17,000 to the Waterways Equipment main body of Popponesset Bay. This article would Account and $30,000 to the Waterways Maintenance fund the second phase of the project, involving devel- Account, to be expended under the direction of the o ment of similar information on tolerable nitrogen E Board of Selectmen, or take any other action relating levels for Hamblin Pond / Little River, Jehu Pond I fc thereto. Great River and the Quashnet River estuary, nitrogen p Submitted by the Waterways Commission modeling of alternative approaches to nitrogen reduc- ! cl And Harbormaster tion, and development, by a wastewater engineering fi for: firm, of a plan and preliminary design for the waste- . C Explanation: This article seeks fundin g water facilities and other measures required to reduce R Additional boat and navigational aid equipment as nitrogen loading to the tolerable levels identified by IT required, and, CMaST in the most cost-effective manner possible. , Performing maintenance dredging of the Po The funding amount requested is based on the fees IV PPonesset required for the additional work b CMaST and th Bay and Waquoit Bay channels when and as required. wastewater engineering firm. Approval of this article l 70