Minutes

Meeting Minutes 7/18/17

Mayo Creek Restoration Committee

Present: John Riehl, John Portnoy, Jake Puffer, Pat Winslow

9:00 AM

-Motion to approve the minutes from 6/21/17 as amended Jake Puffer, Second John Portnoy pass 4-0

-John Riehl stated that the MCRC request for funding from the MET grant was not approved.

-Check for new funding sources, when they become available

-Review abutter data at the Health and Conservation Office.

-abutting properties as well as adjacent parcels within the same lenses

-John Portnoy would like to review the data that we have and come to a consensus with data

provided by Bennett Environmental on what the existing conditions are.

-Water level data

-Water quality data

-Jake Puffer inquired whether the town can provide the funding needed to hire a hydrologist.

- Possibility of being to expensive without town meeting approval.

-John Portnoy and Jake Puffer will review the data from HVCC and surrounding properties.

-John Riehl will review data from Holbrook properties and Kendrick Avenue up to the Bookstore

restaurant.

-Review other restoration projects on the Cape and South East Massachusetts,

-Cases where wells and Septics effected.

-Any cases where there was a failure to anticipate a negative outcome.

-Herring River Restoration information from Tim Smith (head of technical operations)

-Invite a group of experts that could include Tim Smith, Tom Cambareri, to find weakness in the

project.

-Maria Hollis questioned whether other abutters besides HVCC had been contacted.

-John Riehl stated that a list of all abutters has been created and that all meetings are posted.

-Dave Bennett submitted a letter of concerns and future progress.

-Need an independent interpretation of the data

-How is Data reviewed?

-Committee should continue to seek grants for hydrology funding.

-Where will Mean High Water be?

-Need for a detailed hydrological survey

-What is the impairment to public water supply and private drinking wells

-Components in denitrification system could be displaced if water rises

-John Portnoy stated that a constraint of the project would be that Mean Tide Level stay the same so

as not to effect septic components physically or put them out of compliance.

-Bennet submitted a CD with data on water quality, water levels- does not want the committee to

interpret the data

-Bennett stated that HVCC was against the pilot program because they were not apart to it, not

because they were specifically against a pilot of some type.

-John Riehl questioned whether there was a tidal effect on sodium levels in the wells.

-Bennett stated that 6 wells are sampled monthly for Nitrogen to make sure that they are discharging

allowable amount

-John Riehl- Committee will provide a report to the town at some point next year

-Show what restoration ow;ld look like

-Professional Management

-Bennett -check levels in wells during Spring neap tides- measure conductivity.

-Invite all abutters to a presentation.

-Possible presentaion date August 16th At COA 4:00 PM

-Possible meeting August 14th at 4:00 PM

Adjourn 10:15 AM