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treatment, groundwater recharge, non-wastewater Additional assistance with our WNMP work was
<br /> nutrient management projects and programs, water provided by the U.S.Geoloical Survey's report entitled
<br /> quality monitoring and adaptive management,regional The Simulated Effects of Wastewater-Management
<br /> approaches to nitrogen reduction and wastewater Actions on the Hydrologic System and Nitrogen
<br /> management, wetlands, stormwater, rare species, Loading Rates to Wells and Ecological Receptors, !..
<br /> fisheries resources, greenhouse gas emissions, Popponesset Bay Watershed, Cape Cod,
<br /> i historical and archaeological resources,coastal hazards Massachusetts, which was released in August 2013. `
<br /> and adaptation, sewering and growth management, Befitting its impressive title, the report provides an
<br /> j costs to homeowners, construction period impacts, extremely detailed three-dimensional description of
<br /> hazardous materials, public participation and groundwater in the Popponesset Bay watershed and the x'
<br /> commitments to mitigation measures. It can be safely potential impact of a variety of sewering and treated
<br /> said that the required draft and final environmental wastewater discharge scenarios which will greatly
<br /> impact reports will be as large a project as our assist our planning.It is hoped that the WNMP will be
<br /> development of a final wastewater / nitrogen finalized and through the regulatory and environmental
<br /> management plan itself. review process by summer of 2014,completing thirteen
<br /> years of work by the Commission and our consultants
<br /> Regarding the latter, based on the ASAR and a with a cost-effective plan for meeting the TMDL
<br /> weighted decision matrix developed by our consultant targets and restoring a high level of water quality in our
<br /> GHD, working with the Commission and our ponds, streams and estuaries.
<br /> Administrator, the final months of 2013 found the
<br /> Commission working on a Draft Final WNMP, which In order to keep Mashpee's residents informed of
<br /> should be completed in late winter of 2014 and sent off the problem we face and the steps we are taking to deal
<br /> for state and county review. Of increasing interest and with it, our primary consultant GHD and its sub-
<br /> apparent importance to our plan is the work of our consultant Regina Villa Associates, working with
<br /> Shellfish Constable Rick York and others, to remove a Commissioner Joe Lyons and Community Advisory
<br /> significant portion of the water column nitrogen load Committee member Beverly Kane, continued
<br /> through seeding of large numbers(millions)of shellfish, development and implementation of a public
<br /> using Littlenecks in Hamblin and Jehu Ponds,Great and information program. One result of that work is a web
<br /> Little Rivers and Shoestring Bay, and a significant site, www.mashl2eewaters.com, which explains the
<br /> expansion of current oyster propagation efforts in the nitrogen problem, the VV-NMP and where our work
<br /> Mashpee River and Popponesset Bay. In conjunction stands. The site includes links to all the documents
<br /> with sewering and other nitrogen reduction measures generated as part of the WNMP as well as the MEP
<br /> such as stormwater bio-retention areas, development reports for our estuaries and other web sites dealing
<br /> controls and land purchases to reduce "buildout" with the nitrogen issue, along with minutes of all the
<br /> population and other measures, shellfish seeding and Commission's meetings. There is also an information
<br /> commercial harvesting on a large scale may both make kiosk at the rear entrance to Town Hall and a new
<br /> meeting the TMDL targets for Hamblin and Jehu Ponds brochure available at Town Hall, the Library and the r1,
<br /> possible,and also ultimately reduce the area of the Town Senior Center to keep Mashpee residents informed on
<br /> that has to be sewered (thus reducing resulting costs) the issue and our progress. The brochure was also
<br /> while providing local jobs and economic development. distributed at Oktoberfest and the October Town
<br /> Also encouraging is the Cape-wide move to control Meeting. You may also refer to the Mashpee Blue
<br /> nutrient impacts on our waters through regulation of Book, a citizen's guide to our nutrient-related water
<br /> fertilizers. The Commission supports the adoption of quality problems and what needs to be done about
<br /> fertilizer management regulations by the Town,as made them. Recordings of television broadcasts of our
<br /> possible by the Cape Cod Commission's Cape-wide meetings can also be viewed on the Town's web site at
<br /> fertilizer DCPC and related legislation put forth by htip://www.mashpeema.2oov_.
<br /> Senator Wolf.We are also following closely the studies
<br /> being done in Falmouth and other places regarding The work of the mediator funded by the County
<br /> alternatives to sewers, although, to date, none has to help develop agreements between Mashpee and the
<br /> demonstrated its feasibility at the scale required to meet three other towns(Barnstable,Sandwich and Falmouth)
<br /> our mandated nitrogen targets.
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