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which include Town Meeting and Ballot Question Report of the approval of the required construction funds by June 31 Sewer Commission and submission of 90% complete plans to Mass DEP before October.In order to have the interest rate on the loan be reduced from 2% to 0%, a significant cost To the Honorable Board of Selectmen and the savings to the Town, Town Meeting will also have to Citizens of the Town of Mashpee: adopt a"Growth Neutral"bylaw.)GHD began work in September on the final Phase 1 designs and had made The Commission made major progress in 2021 significant progress by the end of the year. Weston & toward achieving the work outlined in the Watershed Sampson has also been engaged to provide limited Nitrogen Management Plan(WNMP)developed by the input regarding the design. Should all the necessary Commission and our consultants and approved by the funding be approved,the intent is to put the project out state(MEPA and DEP)in 2015. to bid in November 2021, with construction occurring between spring 2022 and spring 2024. As a result, we In January the Commission's consultant, GHD should finally have the first section of the Town's sewer Inc., delivered their final report on preliminary design system operating by the end of 2024. of the treatment plant specified in the Plan to be located adjacent to the Town's trash transfer station,along with As a result of proposed reconstruction of Route the first phase of the sewer collection system (located 151 and a 5-year prohibition on opening the pavement roughly between the Town Hall and the Clipper Ship on that state-funded project once it is completed, the Village subdivision on the east side of the Mashpee Selectmen submitted an article on the October Town River) as part of Phase 1 of the Plan. As part of the Meeting warrant for$490,200 for limited design of the design development, a separate Value Engineering sewer facilities in that area(part of the Plan's Phase 2) Study of GHD's proposals was conducted by the firm so that any necessary sewer lines can be constructed of Weston & Sampson to review GHD's work and under Route 151 west of Old Barnstable Road prior to suggest potential improvements and cost savings. The the road construction.The article was approved,though Weston&Sampson report was also delivered at a joint the design work had not begun by the end of the year. meeting of the Commission, GHD and Weston & Sampson in January 2020. A number of Weston & The WNMP describes work to be done in five 5- Sampson's suggestions were well-received and will be year phases.As each phase is completed,the condition incorporated in the final design of the treatment plant. of our waterways and other factors will be analyzed to The preliminary design incorporated extensive natural determine how well the plan is working toward forest buffers surrounding the facility,along with"belt achieving the nitrogen targets set by the EPA for our and suspenders" odor control equipment to minimize estuaries and whether adjustments need to be made to any impacts on the surrounding area, as had been the Plan (a process referred to as "adaptive promised to neighborhood residents. management").This adaptive management approach is particularly important as the Plan relies on removing a Of greatest importance,the Spring Town Meeting significant portion of the water column nitrogen load and election authorized funding, in the amount of through seeding and commercial harvesting of large $2,475,500, for development of final designs for the numbers (millions) of shellfish in Hamblin and Jehu Phase 1 facilities, for which the Commission is Ponds,Great and Little Rivers and Ockway Bay, and a sincerely grateful. The funding approval also allowed significant expansion of current oyster propagation and the Commission to begin the process of seeking 0% harvesting efforts in the Mashpee River, Shoestring interest borrowing from the State's Clean Water Bay and Popponesset Bay. Our hope is to reduce the Revolving Fund (SRF), with GHD's submission in area of the Town that has to be sewered(thus reducing August of our Clean Water Construction Project resulting costs significantly). The Department of Evaluation Form (PEF) aimed at qualifying for the Natural Resources is making steady progress with 2021 SRF funding round. (Based on the PEF,we were shellfish propagation and seeding. informed in January 2021 that our project was ranked 12th in the state and highest on Cape Cod, which The Plan anticipates that the western portion of virtually guarantees that we will receive an SRF loan the town's sewage be sent to a treatment plant on Joint if we complete the other required steps in the process, Base Cape Cod to be shared with Sandwich and the 159