Program Outline Restoration Project Update • Welcome and Introduction (Don Palladino) • Town of Wellfleet Role (Dale Donovan) • Overview of Herring River Restoration Project (Gary Joseph) Agency Contributions • National Park Service – NEPA Process (Tim Smith) • US Fish and Wildlife Service – Overview of Hydro Modeling (Eric Derleth) • Natural Resources Conservation Service – Funding (Steve Spear) • Association to Preserve Cape Cod (Margo Fenn) Friends of Herring River Wellfleet and Truro, Massachusetts
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Program Outline
Restoration Project Update• Welcome and Introduction
(Don Palladino)
• Town of Wellfleet Role (Dale Donovan)
• Overview of Herring River Restoration Project (Gary Joseph)
Agency Contributions• National Park Service –
NEPA Process (Tim Smith)
• US Fish and Wildlife Service – Overview of Hydro Modeling (Eric Derleth)
• Natural Resources Conservation Service – Funding (Steve Spear)
• Association to Preserve Cape Cod (Margo Fenn)
Friends of Herring RiverWellfleet and Truro, Massachusetts
Friends of Herring RiverWellfleet and Truro, Massachusetts
Mission
Promote the restoration and ongoing environmental vitality of the Herring River Estuary • Promote education, research and public awareness about the project
• Coordinate outreach activities to ensure effective public involvement
• Raise funds and seek volunteers
Friends of Herring RiverWellfleet and Truro, Massachusetts
What have we done?
• Summer 2008 – HRRC suggests formation of Friends
• Formed a Board of Directors
• November 2008 – Formal announcement of Friends of Herring River at Wellfleet Harbor Conference.
• Worked with pro-bono attorney to prepare incorporation documents for non-profit status
• With a generous grant from Friends of the Cape Cod National Seashore launched a website and electronic newsletter
Friends of Herring RiverWellfleet and Truro, Massachusetts
What have we done?
• Supported Cape Cod Water Resources Restoration Project with APCC • Conducted logo contest (54 Nauset Regional High School students participated)
• Presentation to Wellfleet BOS and outreach to Cape leaders
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• Co-sponsored or participated in key activities
Brush burn with CCNSHerring count with APCCKayak trips with Audubon
• Incorporated in Massachusetts
• 501(c)(3) application pending with IRS
Friends of Herring RiverWellfleet and Truro, Massachusetts
What are we doing?
• Publishing a bi-monthly electronic newsletter with 300 plus subscribers • Meeting with key interested parties, for example recently
Truro BOS and Open Space CommitteeTruro property abutters
• Seeking funding support
• Continuing to promote public awareness
• Preparing special events
Oyster FestivalWellfleet HarborConservation Trust Walks in Wellfleet
Friends of Herring RiverWellfleet and Truro, Massachusetts
Grant writerCommunicationsHistorianPhotographyMembershipComputers - websiteFundraising/FinanceVolunteer Work Projects
Restoration Project Update• Welcome and Introduction
(Don Palladino)
• Town of Wellfleet Role (Dale Donovan – Wellfleet Board of Selectmen)
• Overview of Herring River Restoration Project (Gary Joseph)
Agency Contributions• National Park Service –
NEPA Process (Tim Smith)
• US Fish and Wildlife Service – Overview of Hydro Modeling (Eric Derleth)
• Natural Resources Conservation Service – Funding (Steve Spear)
• Association to Preserve Cape Cod (Margo Fenn)
Friends of Herring RiverWellfleet and Truro, Massachusetts
1908 Salt Marsh
• Declared shared commitment to investigate restoration of tide to the Herring River
• Established the Herring River Stakeholders Committee to identify interests that could be affected by tidal restoration
• Established the Herring River Technical Committee (HRTC) to assess the feasibility of restoring tide to the Herring River
Development of the Herring River Restoration Project
1. September 2005: Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) between the Town of Wellfleet and Cape Cod National Seashore:
Development of the Herring River Restoration Project
2. November 2007: Conceptual Restoration Plan for the Herring River Tidal Restoration Project completed and approved
• Developed by the HRTC
• Integrated technical information and analyses with issues raised by the Stakeholders Committee
• Concluded that restoration was feasible and in the public interest
•Available on Town of Wellfleet, CCNS and Friends of Herring River web sites
Development of the Herring River Restoration Project
3. November 2007: Memorandum of Understanding, MOUII, among the Towns of Wellfleet, Truro and the Cape Cod National Seashore
• Declared shared commitment to restore tide to the Herring River
• Established the Herring River Restoration Committee (HRRC)
• Tasked the HRRC with using local, state, and federal planning processes to produce a Detailed Restoration Plan for the Herring River
Restoration Project Update• Welcome and Introduction
(Don Palladino)
• Town of Wellfleet Role (Dale Donovan)
• Overview of Herring River Restoration Project (Gary Joseph – Chair of Herring River Restoration Committee and Wellfleet representative)
Agency Contributions• National Park Service –
NEPA Process (Tim Smith)
• US Fish and Wildlife Service – Overview of Hydro Modeling (Eric Derleth)
• Natural Resources Conservation Service – Funding (Steve Spear)
• Association to Preserve Cape Cod (Margo Fenn)
Friends of Herring RiverWellfleet and Truro, Massachusetts
HRRC:Town of WellfleetTown of TruroCape Cod National SeashoreMassachusetts Department of Fish and Game US Fish and Wildlife ServiceNational Oceanographic and Atmospheric AdministrationNatural Resource Conservation
Service
Herring River Restoration Committee A Unique-Multi Entity (Federal, State, Local) Committee
• Comply with Massachusetts Environmental Policy Act (MEPA) and National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA)
• Continue to address overall social concerns and specific impact on CYCC and property abutters
• Produce a detailed restoration plan using local, state, and federal planning processes
National Environmental Policy ActNEPA1969
Purpose: "to make sure that agencies fully consider the environmental costs and benefits of their proposed actions before they make any decision to undertake those actions"
NEPA is a decision making process and tool
Requires careful, complete, and analytic study of the impacts of any proposal that has the potential to affect the environment; requires study of alternatives to the proposed action
Social concerns
• Vegetation change
• Downstream shellfish beds
• Water-supply wells (six)
• Flooding of roads
• Flooding of private propertiesCYCC golf course
Ecological benefitsIncreased sediment deposition
(to counter sea-level rise)Removal of exotic plantsRe-establishment of salt-marsh plantsIncreased tidal flushing
Improved water-column aerationElimination of acidity/metals
Improved migratory fish habitatRestored export to near-shore waters
Social benefitsRestored pollution controlRestored public access, recreation & education
BoatingBirdingFin- and shellfishing
Restored harvestable resourcesFinfishShellfishImproved shellfish water quality
Reduced mosquitoes
Restoration Project Update – Agency Contributions
• National Park Service – NEPA Process (Tim Smith)
• US Fish and Wildlife Service – Overview of Hydro Modeling (Eric Derleth)
• Natural Resources Conservation Service – Funding (Steve Spear)
• Association to Preserve Cape Cod (Margo Fenn)
• Questions and Discussion
Friends of Herring RiverWellfleet and Truro, Massachusetts