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Skaket Room, Orleans Town Hall
March 16, 2015
Task Force Members Attending: Carolyn Kennedy (chair), Mike Brink, Diane Caliri,Gilbert Merritt,
Ken Scott
Also attending: Charles Harris, Eastham
Meeting called to order: 10:05 a.m.
Minutes:Jan. 12, 2015 Approved 4-0-1; Feb. 23, 2015 Approved 5-0-0
Old Business
Data management: Each member of the Task Force reported their progress in reducing the raw
data to the standard spreadsheet format.
Diane: Sarahs,Uncle Harvey's,Twinings, Meadow Bog
Mike: Pilgrim,Uncle Seth's,Uncle Israel's, Ice House
Gilbert: Deep, Shoal
Carolyn: Boland, Gould
Water Quality Advisory Panel Update:
A draft Concensus Agreement has been produced and agreed to by all but one of the participants.The
agreement provides for the sewering of the central business district of Orleans and the area
immediately around Meeting House Pond. Non-Traditional remediation will be tried in other areas
of the town.The full draft Agreement is available on the Town Web site.
http://www.town.orlearts.ma.us/water-quality-advisory-panel
The next step is placing a warrant article on the Town Meeting agenda for funding of approximately
one million dollars for design of the projects.
Expectations are that the sewering will be in place by 2020 and the New Technologies in testing by
2018.
New Business:
April Meeting:
Our next meeting will be held on April 16 in the Nauset Room and will be a joint meeting with the
Orleans Board of Selectmen. Representatives of Eversource (formerly NSTAR) will be there to
discuss the ongoing cormorant roost problem on the transmission lines over Cedar Pond. State
Representative Peake and State Senator Wolf have also been invited to attend.
Other items:
Pleasant Bay Study:
The Pleasant Bay Alliance has contracted with the Cadmus Group to update the existing Pleasant Bay
Water Quality Report. A first draft is expected the week of 4/13/15.
Boland Pond Sampling:
Two more "First Flush" rain storm samples need to be taken before the end of the contract at the end
of June 2015.
Future meetings: 4/13, 5/18, 6/15, 7/20, 8/17,9/21, 10/19, 11/16,, 12/! 0 /��•'�1
Adjournment: The meeting adjourned at 11:20 am.Respectfully submitted, Air
Gilbert Merritt / �J
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