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C. No person shall apply nitrogen 24 hours before form applied with drop spreaders or spreaders or during a heavy rain event or apply nitrogen with side guards to prevent application onto onto saturated ground. An application of Resource Areas and other non-turf areas. Golf nitrogen should be watered in with no more courses with liners installed adjacent to ponds than one-quarter inch (0.25 inch) of irrigation and other Resource Areas to prevent leaching or natural rain within the next 24 hour period. of nitrogen are exempt from Section 4(d) in those areas where such liners are installed. D. The application of nitrogen is prohibited within 100' of the following Resource Areas, as C. Application of nitrogen to gardens, including defined in The Mashpee Wetlands Protection vegetable and flower,trees,shrubs and indoor Bylaw, Section 2 and Regulations: any applications including greenhouses; these freshwater or coastal wetlands; marshes; wet applications are regulated by the MDAR meadows; bogs; swamps; vernal pools; lakes; Fertilizer Regulations, ponds; rivers, streams; creeks; and estuaries. Notwithstanding the above, where there is a D. Application of nitrogen for the establishment 50' naturally vegetated buffer zone to any of new vegetation in the first growing season, freshwater or coastal wetlands; marshes; wet or repairing of turf in the first growing season, meadows;bogs;swamps;vernal pools;ponds; after substantial damage, with the restrictions lakes;and estuaries,an application of nitrogen described in Section 5 (b) for applications in is prohibited within 50' of that protected the buffer zone of regulated Resource Areas Resource Area. An application of nitrogen is referenced in Section 4(d). prohibited within 100'of any rivers; streams; and creeks,as defined in the Rivers Protection E. Application of compost or other similar Act, Chapter 258 of the Acts of 1996. There materials that are primarily organic in nature are alternative methods of enhancing turf and are applied to improve the physical within these prohibited areas without condition of the soil, application of nitrogen: see Sections 5(e) and 5(f). A Certified Fertilizer Applicator may F. Compost tea and liquid seaweed applications, apply to the Town Conservation Commission including formulas with less than 5% total for approval to authorize limited applications nitrogen,if and only if applied in a manner that of nitrogen on turf within these prohibited follows label recommendations and/or areas. A working group may be established by standard industry recommendations for a foliar the Town Conservation Commission to assist application to the point of leaf runoff. No root in undertaking the duties referenced in this drenching of compost tea or liquid seaweed paragraph. with nitrogen is permitted within the buffer zone of regulated Resource Areas referenced §107-5.Exemptions in Section 4(d). The following activities shall be exempt from Section §107-6.Recommendations 4: A. Application of nitrogen for agriculture and The Town of Mashpee strongly recommends that horticulture uses; these applications are nitrogen should be applied to turf and other plants at regulated by the MDAR Fertilizer Regulations. the lowest rate necessary, as is described in the BMP. Any single application of nitrogen should not exceed B. Application of fertilizer to golf courses,except 0.5 pounds of nitrogen per 1000 square feet, and the that any application of nitrogen on greens or annual aggregate total application of nitrogen should fairways within Resource Areas referenced in not exceed 1.0 pound per 1000 square feet. The Section 4(d) shall comply with the application of any nitrogen should be of a natural- Recommendations set forth in Section 6, and organic,slow-release,water-insoluble form. shall use 85% or higher slow-release, water- insoluble nitrogen, in organic or inorganic I 73