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feet in the air due to beach erosion. The stairway was This monitoring will be an on-going requirement again suspended about a foot in the air this December for the indefinite future. Water quality monitoring in 2006 proving the need for annual nourishment. The both bays is needed to assess continuing degradation Department of Public Works did move some of the and eventually determine what effect wastewater man- December dredged material to the stairway area off agement efforts are having on water quality. Exact Wading Place Road so the stairs would not constitute requirements for monitoring are under discussion with a hazard. several Towns and the Department of Environmental Protection. Dredging Permit Renewal Since our permits will expire we initiated action Other Committee Work to renew permits. We submitted an article at the May The Waterways Commission members partici- Town meeting and transfer of money from the pate in other Town and County committees as follows: Waterways Improvement Fund was approved, and a Request for Proposal prepared and sent out. We eval- Gerald J. Daly uated the bid (there was only one) and found it satis- —Barnstable County Coastal Resources factory,so BSC Corporation was put on contact as our Committee Consultant. The Waterways Commission worked with —Public Access BSC to help prepare and review those applications, and they have been submitted. James P. Hanks —County Dredge Advisory Committee alter- Improvement Dredging nate We are still trying to obtain permits to dredge the Timothy Leedham Mashpee River. Since mid 2002, when we found we —Mashpee Local Multiple Hazard did not have enough room to de-water the dredged Community Planning Team material,we have been investigating other ways to get the job done. The problem is where to dispose of the material. Paul W. Lumsden —Sewer Commission Advisory Committee Additionally, hydrodynamic and water quality John Swartzbaugh modeling conducted by the Mass Estuaries Project —Town of Mashpee Wind Energy Task Force revealed that removing the material from the river would have a slight negative impact on water quality William R. Taylor in the river. Given that, and the lack of a suitable —County Dredge Advisory Committee upland site, the best recourse appears to be depositing —Mashpee-Wakeby Lake Management the material in the river. Three alternatives, islands, Committee side casting and butting the material up against the marsh front are to be investigated using the hydrody- Respectfully submitted, namic model. Each of these approaches requires a mechanical dredging approach,and that is expensive if James P. Hanks, Chairman commercial operators are used. We are therefore also Gerald J. Daly working with the County Dredge department and the Perry F. Ellis other Cape towns to see if such a capability would be Timothy Leedham appropriate for the County. Paul W. Lumsden John Swartzbaugh Water Quality Monitoring William R. Taylor We continued working with Dr. Brian Howes who continues to analyze the nutrient problems of the Popponesset Bay and Waquoit Bay Systems. In 2006 we took again took samples at several sites in Waquoit Bay and Popponesset Bay and their tributaries The water samples are analyzed to measure dis- solved oxygen, salinity, temperature, turbidity, and nutrient levels. I 135