|
Expression of Interest:
We are once
again inviting property owners to indicate whether they wish
their property to be considered for a future sewer hook-up
if it were to become available in their neighborhood. Please
use this form
to submit your response. We would ask that you respond by
Friday, August 22, 2008. Your response - whether yes or no
- is not binding on either you or the Town. It is merely an
expression of your interest and will greatly assist us with
our planning process. Regardless of whether you responded
to the previous inquiries we sent out in 2005 and 2006, we
would ask that you do so again so that our decisions may be
based on up-to-date information.
Sewer Construction Update:
See
sewer construction schedule updated regularly for you
information. Direct questions or concerns to DPW System Coordinator
Ron Gamella
at 508-487-7060.
Sewer Connection Rate Increase
- Red Dot Properties:
On July 12, 2007, the Provincetown Water and Sewer Board held
a public hearing and voted, pursuant to MGL c. 83, §16,
to increase the connection surcharge rate from the current
rate of $39.08/gallon of Title 5 flow to $45.00/gallon. On
August 27, 2007 the Provincetown Board of Selectmen voted,
pursuant to MGL c. 40, §22F, to approve the recommendation
of the Water and Sewer Board effective November 1, 2007.
Read
Notice.
Wastewater
Project Update
Report to the Board
of Selectmen for the July 16th Special Meeting
Wastewater Financial Analysis and Update. This draft
report was presented by the Wastewater Team to the Board
of Selectmen on July 16, 2007. Following discussion, a final
report will be presented on August 27, 2007.
Sewer Regulations Amended:
On July 12, 2007 the Provincetown
Water and Sewer Board held a public hearing and voted to amend
the Sewer Rules and Regulations effective July 12, 2007. See
Public Notice.
Sewer
System expansion: December 1, 2006 deadline
for Shankpainter Basin.
The Board of Selectmen
has voted
to pursue the proposed expansion of the sewer system to serve
the Shankpainter Basin,
and set a deadline of
December 1, 2006 for properties in that area to request a
sewer connection. See
the map Call
DPW at 508.487.7060
Public
Hearing on September 25th at 4 p.m. The
Board of Selectmen will hold a public hearing on Monday,
September 25, 2006 at 4 p.m. at Town Hall on proposed
expansion of the sewer system to serve the Shankpainter Basin
(shown as Area W-1
on Metcalf & Eddy's
8-14-06 sewer planning presentation to the Selectmen)
and the DPW Highway Garage site at 24 Race Point Road (sewer
planning Area E-10) for
affordable housing.
Over the past year, the Provincetown Board
of Selectmen has been actively engaged in a planning effort
to expand use of our sewer system to include properties not
already hooked up to the sewer. Metcalf & Eddy presented
the results of these planning efforts to the Board of
Selectmen on August 14, 2006. [Read minutes
of the meeting.] Metcalf & Eddy recommended that the
sewer system be expanded first to serve the Shank Painter
Basin and the DPW Garage Site to help meet the Town's affordable
housing needs, as well as to provide sewer hook ups to those
neighborhoods where there is sufficient interest to ensure
that the revenue will cover all of the costs of serving that
neighborhood.
As part of the planning efforts, the Town
again invited property owners to indicate whether they wish
their property to be considered for a future sewer hook-up
if it were to become available in their neighborhood. Letters
were sent to property owners through out the town in both
November 2005 and July 2006. A Neighborhood Meeting for interested
property owners in the Shank Painter Basin was held on September
6th at the Center for Coastal Studies Marine Laboratory.
While, in the immediate future, the Town is
facing some limits to new hook-ups along the existing vacuum
sewer collection system along Commercial Street, there is
enough unused capacity at the sewer treatment plant to allow
additional properties to be hooked up through extensions of
the sewer collection system. If we build
more sewer mains, we can have more sewer hook-ups. If we have
more sewer hook-ups to use the available capacity at the plant,
we can ensure that the revenues from sewer users will be both
affordable and will cover all of the costs of the sewer system.
The proposed optimization of the existing
sewer system will provide for a limited amount of additional
flows for those properties along Commercial Street that receive
an Economic Development Permit according to the procedures
that have been established for Category 5 of the Growth Management
By-Law.
FY
2007 Wastewater Goal -
The Board of Selectmen's goal for this year
is to complete the construction of the Phase I sewer project;
finalize facilities planning for Phase II of the sewer project;
maximize the use of the existing collection system. Develop
policies to reduce per-gallon sewer user fees.
Facilitated
Meetings on Wastewater.
The Board of Selectmen held a series of meetings facilited
by Mr. John Goodrich to discuss how to optimize and expand
use of the sewer system. See the facilitator's notes of
those meetings:
Minimum Sewer Bill - On
October 20, 2005 the Provincetown Water & Sewer Board
held a public hearing and voted to adopt a minimum sewer bill
of $75 for residential customers and $150 for commercial customers.
See Public
Notice.
Amendments to Water &
Sewer Regulations to Allow for Sewer Banking - On
October 20, 2005 the Provincetown Water & Sewer Board
held a public hearing and voted to amend the Water & Sewer
Regulations. Read
Public Notice for changes.
Sewer
Connection Surcharge Rates - On
July 18, 2005 the Provincetown Board of Selectmen voted, pursuant
to MGL c. 40, §22F, to approve the sewer connection surcharge
rate as amended by the Water and Sewer Board on July 13, 2005
to increase said rate from $33.68 to $39.08 per gallon per
day of Title 5 design flow. This new rate took effective January
1, 2006. See Public
Notice.
|
