Water Resources Advisory Board
Minutes meeting of 10/04/04
Attending were Chair Weiss and members Lightfoot, Boelitz, Whitmore and Bayne, and Health Agent Crowley. Minutes of 9/13/04 meeting were approved as amended.
Crowley updated the Board on the well testing program; about 530 vials remain to be mailed to South Eastham. The creation of the data base which will allow well test reports to be downloaded directly from the County lab is proceeding. It will not allow direct download from private labs.
Crowley reported re WIC grants for which Eastham has applied: The waste water on site treatment feasibility study has been approved, funds to come from an earlier county surplus. The second Eastham proposal, if approved, will be funded from a potential $200,000 account which the county appears to be willing to dedicate to WIC purposes.
Public well issues:
The meeting with USGS which Crowley and Weiss attended on Sept. 15 resulted in a request from USGS that Eastham provide them with a list of our potential public well needs in prioritized order and a list of town owned lands. They will review several potential well sites. Some of these will be those discussed with them before, but at lesser volumes of pumping than considered previously. (Specifically, they will review the Roach site at 1-200,000 gpd and the District D and H sites at 3-400,000 gpd.) Crowley will provide John Masterson of the USGS with a list of all town owned parcels with an area of greater than 10 acres which have not been studied before.
USGS will also study the impact of a 1-2 mgpd lens to lens transfer.
Crowley also met with a DEP representative who is an advocate of the idea that the Seashore should accommodate water needs of towns within the Seashore, therefore he feels the urgent need in the Moll’s Pond area might be answered by a well in Seashore lands. However, it is recognized this would entail a longer process than can be accommodated in this urgent situation. Crowley has been told by the Town’s consultant that the 21 acre parcel currently used by The Children’s Place may be a possible well site; this contradicts his report of the 1990’s, which predated the closing of the town landfill. The DEP official also told Crowley that funding is not available for assessment of developabilty but may be available for actual development.
The DEP will also consider amending or curtailing Eastham’s current state mandated well testing program for the landfill area if a well is developed for abutters.
Housing developments:
Selectmen met again with the Roach property developers. (Again neither Health, nor WWMC nor WRAB was invited.) The developer reported individual systems would be cheaper than a plant. The three water boards will write to the Cape Codder on this issue. The Brackett Road developers are willing to do a nitrex (communal treatment) system.
The next meeting will be on Nov. 1 at 3 pm at the Police Station.
Sandy Bayne, clerk
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