Eastham Water Resources Advisory Board -Waste Water Management Planning Committee
Notes of 7/11/05 Joint Meeting
Present were Chair Weiss, Co-chair Whitmore, members Holt, Gardner, Boelitz, Lightfoot, Sullivan, Olthof, Williams and Bayne, Health Agent Crowley, and reporter for the Provincetown Banner Emily Sussman.
Minutes of the meeting of June 6 were approved as written.
Weiss explained that WWMPC member Peterson asked not to be reappointed at the end of his term in May; he does not have adequate time to continue, but remains interested and wishes to continue to receive agendas and minutes.
Environmental Partners (the Moll’s Pond area municipal well study firm) president Paul Gabriel and project manager Dave Patangia made a presentation to the group. Gabriel explained they have been charged with using existing data to determine an area to be served, cost, supply source, potential well location, and future expansion possibility, and to create a final report.
By Sept. they will have completed the listed work, having screened available sites, including existing wells at the Eastham Elementary School, Nauset Regional High School, and The Children’s Place, and new sites including all town properties. Their report will be ready in time or a fall town meeting.
Crowley recapped the problem and explained that she sees an opportunity in this process for planning for future town wide municipal water supply.
Holt and Sandler made Gabriel and Patangia aware that many townspeople will not be convinced by the existing well testing data to expend the funds necessary for a public well as they will not see this as a significant problem. Although some members suggested the Town pursue water samples from those homes in the area which have not submitted samples, Crowley explained this is not part of the charge to the consultants.
Boelitz asked that the cost of all alternative solutions be included in the final report.
Crowley reported on the status of the nitrogen testing program. She will check on the deadline for including in the tax bills a note urging homeowners to have their water tested for nitrogen. Holt will create the text of that note, which would target North Eastham.
Crowley reported that the RFP for waste water management planning has garnered six responses; most of those firms had also responded to the municipal well study RFP.
Bayne reported on the ongoing pond study. The issue of how the money allocated by the Assembly of Delegates can be transferred to the Cape Cod National Seashore for lab analysis remains. Dorothy DeSimone, pond plant community mapper, has begun at Herring Pond, using three year old aerials provided by Gail Fitzback, Assesssor.
Submitted by Sandy Bayne, clerk
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