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Town Of Brewster Comprehensive Water
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Date Approved: 11/28/11
Vote:8-0
TOWN OF BREWSTER MINUTES OF
COMPREHENSIVE WATER PLANNING COMMITTEE
WORK SESSION
Friday, September 17, 2010 at 2:00 P.M.
Brewster Town Office Building
Present: Amy Usowski, Elizabeth Taylor, John Lipman, Joanne Hughes, Jane Johnson
There were initial comments on how the community meeting went on Sept 11th 2010.
Comments on Phase I Report:
Section 3:
3.2 J. Hughes: Keep numbers of watersheds vs. subwatersheds consistent. Either use
watersheds or subwatersheds, not both. Brewster has 6 watersheds that were divided into 50
subwatersheds.
3.3 Johnson: need to have a glossary for terms for people (such as watershed, subwatershed,
ground water, etc). She will provide a list of terms that should be included. She also questioned
what the difference between "open space" and "protected open space."
Addressed in 3-6.
Taylor: change open space percentage to "almost a third" in this section (3.3.6)
3.3.2 Johnson: Natural Resource Protection Design Bylaw as well as a Sand and Gravel Bylaw
and Groundwater Protection Bylaw. This was while the DCPC bylaw was active.
3.3.9 Taylor: Mention that there are plume(s) coming from the dump as now it shows no toxic
plumes. Maybe put this as a different section? Or should we put it in a different chapter?
Usowski: keep plumes with groundwater problems and not as a new section. Just do a
subheading or bullet at the•end of section 3.3.9 to keep all groundwater issues together.
Taylor: title it"Point Source Pollution"
Lipman inserted a paragraph to this effect in the revised text.
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Taylor: there are areas in town that CDM is saying have impervious surfaces such as the sand
and gravel pit and other mining areas which we know to be pervious. The maps CDM used show
them as impervious surfaces. Figure 3-5: Can this be addressed? 3.3.4 in PB 8 (sand pits north
of Freeman's Way).
Gallagher: can they reference where they got the data from?
J. Hughes 3.3.9 Eliminate discussion on Brewster Park.
3.3.6 Taylor: is land that BCT has a CR on incorporated in "BCT Land?" What about our well
areas, are these considered protected open space? They are considered as open space. What
category do we put golf courses in? Not shown as open space. None of the CRs are on Figure 3-
7.
Gallagher: page 3-8 the bullet points: put them in order so the numbers are consecutive
(buildings per acre). Also mentioned a number of other spelling/grammatical errors in section 3.
Taylor: Was sea level rise ever considered to be in this report? It does not show up anywhere.
Lipman: is it really pertinent to this study especially in this phase?
J. Hughes: Figure 3-2 What is a non-community water source? A private well?
Section 4
Gallagher: minor grammatical changes needed on page 4-1.
Johnson: page 4-3 last sentence 32 study areas that fall into categories 1 and 2, these areas
should fit into categories 1 and 3. She stated that this comment had already been sent to Sue
Leven.
Meeting adjourned at 4:03 pm.
Res•-ctfully submitted,
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