| Agenda: | PUBLIC NOTICE POSTING REQUEST
ORGANIZATION: Mill Brook Watershed Study Planning Committee
MEETING PUBLIC HEARING (Please circle appropriately)
DATE: Monday, February 2, 2015
TIME: 5:00 pm
LOCATION: West Tisbury Library
PURPOSE: Review Watershed Study Tasks
REQUESTED BY: Chuck Hodgkinson, Co-Chair
ALL MEETING NOTICES MUST BE FILED AND TIME STAMPED IN THE TOWN CLERK’S OFFICE AND POSTED ON THE MUNICIPAL BULLETIN BOARD 48 HOURS PRIOR TO THE MEETING. (in accordance with Chapter 303 Acts of 1975)
AGENDA
1. Updates on property owner permission:
a. Tim.
b. Nancy.
2. Review RFP tasks for additional funding and timing for April Town Meeting.
a. The sixth base-flow water quality sampling round with lab analysis. (MVC $?)
b. Review and summarize available information, including existing GIS mapping, water quality (including water temperature) and flow data, ecological studies, bathymetric reports, topography and atmospheric data.
c. Provide a narrative that characterizes the watershed, including land use and land cover, demographics, natural resources, infrastructures.
d. Conduct morphometric investigation of the Mill Brook. This will include a reconnaissance of the watershed area to confirm the watershed boundaries shown on the Seidel map. In addition to the field review of the watershed, vegetation identification, and plant distribution in and around Fisher, Crocker, Priester’s and Albert’s Ponds located upstream of Mill Pond shall be done. This data will result in a written report of the morphometric features, as well as vegetation distribution.
e. Identifying “high-risk” land uses negatively affecting the water quality of the Mill Brook and document potential sources of nutrient and pollutant (including thermal pollution) inputs.
(OVER)
f. Perform baseline assessments of other impoundments within the Mill Brook where the Town can obtain permission from property owners. This will include at a minimum: area, bathymetry, depth of unconsolidated bottom sediment, and sub-emergent vegetation. If a nearby vertical datum is not available, survey data points will be tied to a clearly marked temporary benchmark to allow later conversion to NGVD.
3. April Town Meeting Warrant deadline 2/3/15.
4. Communication Subcommittee update.
5. Review meeting minutes: 1/12/15; 1/16/15. Are all approved minutes posted on the website?
6. Other old, new business.
7. Next Meetings: Monday, February 9, Monday, February 23 @ 5:00
a. Chuck away 2/9.
b. School break week of Feb. 23. |