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Other community organizations Horticulture TMDLs (Total Maximum allowed Daily Loads of t served were Barnstable Senior Center, Harwich nitrogen),for each of those estuaries.TMDLs,enforced r Family Pantry,Harwich Historical Society,Camp by DEP, are required by the federal Clean Water Act, c Lyndon YMCA, Harwich Garden Club, and and those DEP TMDL reports have been approved by Orleans Conservation Trust. EPA under the Act. The Town is faced(along with the r • Information Technologies did a community other towns which share the Bays'watersheds)with the i 1 service learning project by building a web site for need to determine how we will meet those targets. t the Town of Harwich - Mashpee's Watershed Nitrogen Management Plan harwichfarmersmarket.org. (WNMP)project is intended to identify the most cost- effective approach to reducing nitrogen in each of our } • The Plumbing / Heating Department was coastal watersheds to levels that meet the targets,while commended for starting the Tri-Tech Consortium. also dealing with phosphorus impacts to our ponds and • protection of overall water quality. - Seventy-four students did Co-op Internships. The Health Education Department continued During 2013 the Commission continued to make work with community agencies as partners in the progress toward completing the WNMP, intended to health classroom. Independence House educator serve as a blueprint for solving the severe nutrient- worked with at-risk students and the Sheriffs caused water quality problems in our bays and ponds Department and Harwich Police Department have and meeting the state and federal regulatory targets set i presented in the classroom. for nitrogen levels in our estuaries.Following up on the Please encourage students to take advantage of Fork done and the reports completed in previous years, the opportunities our public technical school provides including the Needs Assessment Report, the j at CCRTHS. Visit our website: www.capetech.us for Technology Screening Analysis Report, the Draft more information. Alternative Screening Evaluation and Site Evaluation i Report and the Massachusetts Estuaries Program i Respectfully submitted, (MEP) reports analyzing the ability of a series of alternative scenarios for reducing nutrient David Bloomfield, Mashpee School Committee contamination to meet the "TMDL" nitrogen targets Representative to CCRTHS established by Mass DEP and the US EPA for the Popponesset and Waquoit estuaries,the major product of this year's efforts by the Commission and our consultants was the "Final Alternatives Screening Report of the Analysis Report"(ASAR).Incorporating the results of Sewer Commission a new MEP report for the full Waquoit Bay estuarine system released in March 2013, the ASAR describes the eight scenarios previously developed under the To the Honorable Board of Selectmen and the WNW process as well as the MEP modeling results Citizens of the Town of Mashpee: for each, and develops a framework and direction for completion of a Recommended Plan and the Massachusetts As reported in previous years, Environmental Impact Report, the last steps of the Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) Massachusetts Estuaries Program engaged the UMass- Dartmouth School of Marine Science and Technology The ASAR was submitted for review by the and other sub-consultants to model nitrogen loading Executive Office of Energy & Environmental Affairs and pathways, and establish nitrogen loading targets, and other state agencies in September. The Secretary for both the Popponesset Bay (including Shoestring of Energy & Environmental Affairs issued his Bay,Mashpee River,Ockway Bay,Popponesset Creek Certificate that the ASAR complies with the and Pinquikset Cove) and "East Waquoit" (including Massachusetts Environmental Policy Acton November Sedge Lot Pond, Jehu Pond, Great and Little Rivers, 1.The Secretary's Certificate also specifies the required Hamblin Pond and the Quashnet / Moonakis River) scope for a Draft Environmental Impact Report on the estuaries. The recommendations from these reports th.aft final WNW plan.That scope is extensive,as we were used by DEP to set formal nitrogen targets, the are required to address land alteration, wastewater 140