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For Mashpee, the water sampling crew is _ Report of the Baker, Pirates Cove; Bert McConnell, Harbor Rick York, Shellfish Constable; and Water% , Waterways Commission Commissioners Jerry Daly,Jim Hanks,Paul Lums Herb Silver, and Bill Taylor. On the Barnstable sde4 To the Honorable Board of Selectmen is Ken Molloy and the "Cotuit Waders We toot and the Citizens of the Town of Mashpee: water samples to measure dissolved oxygen,sahn temperature, and turbidity and nutrient levels.We also 7 The Waterways Commission met monthly to gathered samples to count coliform bacteria. a deliberate on Waterways related topics. The goal is to maintain and improve the Waterways in Mashpee. To This monitoring will be an on-going requiremeol I this end we work with the Harbormaster to oversee for the indefinite future. Water quality monitoring� maintenance dredging,and plan and manage improve- both bays is needed to monitor continued degradation i ment dredging. We also actively support the Town's and eventually determine what effects nutrient main i efforts to improve water quality in our bays. agement efforts have on water quality. 1 a Maintenance Dredging Other Committee Work t No maintenance dredging was performed in The Waterways Commission members partici. 1 2002 because:Waquoit Bay and the inside channel in pate in other Town and County committees as follows; o Popponesset did not need it. The outside channel in Popponesset Bay was dredged in November of 2001. 0Gerald J.Daly—Barnstable County Coastal l It was scheduled to be done again in November 2002, Resources Committee but the dredging schedule slipped to early 2003 due to equipment problems and the cold weather. James P. Hanks—County Dredge Advisory Committee provement Dredging The current project is to obtain permits to dredge 0Paul W. Lumsden — Sewer Commissia` the Mashpee River. In mid 2002 we determined that .Advisory Committee the proposed Oclww ay Baypublic landing disposal site was too small. We re-visited the idea mechanical William R. Taylor —dredging because the drier sediment would fit in a Lake Management Committee smaller disposal site. We determined that this was not County Dredge Advisory Committee feasible due to the lack of a suitable way to de-water the matcriai so it would be dry enough to be trucked to Respectfully submitted, the.Ockway Bay ramp site. James P.Danks, Chairman John'Swartzbaugh, lice-Chairman At the request,of a Bien at a status briefing to Gerard J. Daly, the.Selectmen,we were requested_by the Selectmen to Paul W. Lumsden once again investigate theossib�le use of conservation p Herbert Silver land and to work closely with the Conservation William R. Taylor aC ission'Chairman and Vise-chairman to arrive at an agreed upon site. We decided to also re-open the iums `: `on of building, islands out of the dredged material or disposing of it offshore_ Both of these op ons had been discarded earlier because they were predicted to be more expensive than hydraulicdredg- to a dewatering site, Wa WI Monitnri ng We conlanned worldnge with Dr; Brian lliowe-s who isaftalYziug the nutrient problems of the Popponesse"Bay Systremr This year we expanded the operation to "'elude Waquoit Bay and its tributaries, tetalkgo 32 sites ww;hem samples are taken. We sample each Bay once as nwonth on separate days during May, Junae,July,August and September, 138