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Explanation: This article would allow veterinary Massachusetts Estuaries Project final establishments, kennels and similar establishments in reports entitled "Linked Watershed- Industrial zoning districts(they are currently permitted Embayment Model to Determine Critical only in Commercial zoning districts), add animal day Nitrogen Loading Thresholds for care facilities as a specific allowed use, and amend the Popponesset Bay, Mashpee and current requirement that animals be "kept wholly Barnstable, Massachusetts", dated indoors"to provide the permitting authority the ability September 2004, and "Linked Watershed- to authorize outdoor exercise runs or yards. Embayment Model to Determine Critical Nitrogen Loading Thresholds for the The Board of Selectmen recommends approval. Quashnet River, Hamblin Pond, and Jehu Pond, in the Waquoit Bay System of the The Finance Committee recommends approval by Towns of Mashpee and Falmouth, MA", a vote of 4-0. dated January 2005. For other great ponds or bays, and surface water bodies over one Planning Board voted at a Public Hearing held on (1) acre, a map of the groundwater September 20,2006 5-0 to recommend approval. recharge zone shall be produced as part of the water quality report if it appears that Motion made by Selectman Wayne Taylor. the development may lie within the recharge zone of said water body,with said Motion: I move Article 26 be voted as printed in the map to be based on the U.S. Geological warrant,except for the phrase"or take any other action Survey's regional groundwater model of relating thereto". the Sagamore flow cell, or more detailed modeling based on that model." Motion passes unanimously at 8:15 P.M. Correct the second sentence of Subsection B.(2) to Article 27 read: "If so, the report shall specify how such materi- als will be handled, stored or disposed and a determi- To see if the Town will vote to amend the Zoning By- nation of whether or not such materials will have any law by amending Section 174-27 as follows: impact on public health or safety." Replace the current wording of Subsection B.(1) with Replace the current wording of Subsections B.(4) and the following: (5) with the following: "(1) Whether or not the development lies "(4) A determination of the levels, in total pounds a. within a Groundwater Protection District and in pounds per acre,of nitrogen and phosphorus that (see Art. XIII), could be generated by the development. In making b. within a previously defined Zone II such determination, the following standards shall be recharge area of an existing or proposed used unless the applicant demonstrates to the satisfac- public water supply well, tion of the Board that other standards are applicable: c. within three hundred (300) feet of the Santuit, Mashpee, Quashnet or Childs (a) Residential wastewater loading: 525 liters Rivers,Quaker Run south of Route 28,Red (139 gallons) per day (gpd) per residence Brook or any pond, bay or other surface (assumes 154 gpd water use and 90% water body or of any adjacent wetlands as return flow as wastewater); total nitrogen defined by MGL C. 131, §40, or 26.25 milligrams per liter(assumes Title 5 d. within the groundwater recharge zone of septic system and leach field);phosphorus any great pond or bay or other surface one (1) pound per year per residence. Or water body over one (1) acre. (With regard Loading per person: five(5)pounds nitro- to the groundwater recharge zones of sur- gen per person per year•, four-tenths (0.4) face water bodies, reference shall be made pound phosphorus per person per year, to the watershed and subwatershed delin- assuming two and one-half (2.5) persons eations prepared by the U.S. Geological per dwelling unit. Survey and Cape Cod Commission for the 87