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Date Approved: 12/8/14
Vote: 4-0-2, Bennett, Evans abstain
TOWN OF BREWSTER MINUTES
COMPREHENSIVE WAT ER PLANNING COMMITTEE (CWPC)
Regular Meeting
Monday, October 20, 2014 at 4:30 pm
Brewster Town Office Building
Chairman Paula Miller convened the CWPC meeting at 4:30 pm in the Brewster Town Office Building with
members Russell Schell, Dan Ryan, John O'Reilly, Adam Curtis, Lem Skidmore and Elizabeth Taylor present.
Absent: Bruce Evans and Dave Bennett
Also Present: Susan Leven, Jim Gallagher, Chris Miller, Pat Hughes, Jillian Douglass, Hal MinusLaura Kelly,
Kim McCauley
Recording or Taping Notification
The Chair read "As required by the Open Meeting Law we are informing you that the Town will be videotaping
this public meeting. In addition, if anyone else intends to audio or videotape this meeting he or she is
required to inform the chair."
Supporting Documents:
10.14.14 A Draft letter to Paul Niedzwiecki AGENDA
. Citizen
(CCC) dated 9/24/14 by Mark Nelson 2• Discussion with Mark Nelson (HWG) and Ed
Forum
10.14.14 B Schell comments 2
Eichner
10.14.14 C Draft fertilizer Bylaw (SMAST)
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10.20.14 D Mills Pond Management Plan Fertilizer izeer r Bylaw
PowePoint
Recording available at:
http://ec4.cc/jde9365e
[ 1. Citizens Forum
No comments
I 2. Discussion with Mark Nelson (HWG) and Ed Bickner (SMAST)
A. Mills Pond Report/ Overview of report with Power point
• Mill Ponds Complex (Walkers Pond, Upper Mill Pond and Lower Mill Pond)
• unique system for Cape Cod
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• Details
• water quality
• water flow
• characteristics of ecosystems beyond water
• Assess status of each pond
• Brewster Pond Report at Town Meeting in 2008
• 2013 Mill Pond Technical Memo
• Water quality
• 40+ sampling runs
• continuous monitoring information 2011-2012
• temperature information
• dissolved oxygen
• field measurements
• lab measurements
• clarity
• ph
• Impaired water quality in all 3 ponds
• Phosphorous is the driving force/limiting nutrients
• balance: estimated and measured
• Walker Pond; surrounded by macrophytes (hardly any mussels)
• Upper Mill Pond: a few macrophytes, many mussels
• Lower Mill Pond: mix
• Management options
• Recommendations; limited harvesting
• Additional recommendations; keep monitoring, land owner education program and
storm water infiltration
Topics of questions from the committee
• Storm water overflow
• River herring issues
• Wastewater and fertilizer contributors
• Outfalls between the 3 ponds
• Depth of samples taken
• TMDL
• Permitting time frames
• RFP time frames- what's next?
Topics of concern from the audience
• public access to the final document/ will be cleaned up and then on the web site
• Could there be an "executive summary" prepared with perhaps a flyer?
B. Fertilizer Bylaw Discussion
• New draft of the fertilizer management bylaw
• Submitted comments after the 1st draft
• General Bylaw submission for Town Meeting in the Fall of 2015
• rewrote and simplified
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• removed "certified landscaper" language
Comments
• Ready for warrant with changes
• 119-2.A additional word "fertilizer"
• position to make recommendation helpful for BOS
MOTION by Lem Skidmore to send CWPC recommendation to the Selectmen that the revised draft be the
preferred Bylaw. Second by Russ Schell. VOTE: 7-0-0.
C. 208 comments
• Continued to next meeting
Next Meeting: Tuesday, November 10, 2014 at 4:30 pm
Lem Skidmore made a Motion to adjourn at 5:30 pm
John O'Reilly Second,
Vote: 7-0-0.
Res•ectfully submitted,
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Dave Iler hair & Clerk
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