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Home My WebLink About52 SE48_3115 NCC PRESENTATION CONCOM 4_22_19 THREE FINAL POINTS • Clarification Needed • Adverse Impacts • Reasonable Alternatives …and a closing thought There are important points in need of clarification. Here are five. #1 Clarification: The current structure was intended to be temporary. PROJECT SITE VICINITY MAP:PREPARED BY:LOCATION MAP:BAXTER ROAD TEMPORARY STABILIZATIONNOI SUBMISSIONBAXTER ROADNANTUCKET, MASSACHUSETTSPREPARED FOR:TOWN OF NANTUCKETNANTUCKET, MASSACHUSETTS0'125' 250'SCALE 1" = 500'0 1/4" 1/2"0'1000' 2000'SCALE 1" = 2000'01/4" 1/2"One Financial Plaza1350 Main Street, Suite 1012Springfield, Massachusetts 01103(413) 241-6920 Fax (413) 241-6911www.miloneandmacbroom.comLIST OF DRAWINGSSHEET NO.TITLE1TITLE SHEET2EXISTING CONDITIONS3GENERAL PLAN4TYPICAL CROSS SECTION5-9 CROSS SECTIONSDESIGNER:DATE:P.E. NO.:BY:MILONE & MACBROOM, INC.PROJECT SITEMilone & MacBroom, Inc. - 2013PROJECTSITEPROJECT SITEOctober 25, 2013James MacbroomOctober 25, 201343052C:\Users\richd.OFFICE\Documents\Baxter Road - Nantucket, MA\JMacBroom stamp.tiffDRAFT # 2 Clarification: Alternate access to northern Baxter Road not predicated on permitting of expansion. # 3 Clarification: Number of days geotubes uncovered remains unknown. January 9, 2018 February 1, 2018 # 4 Clarification: Number of days walkable beach maintained remains unknown. January 28, 2017 # 5 Clarification: Rate of erosion has increased, despite public statements by applicant. SCONSET BEACH PRESERVATION FUND An open letter to Nantucket Town Meeting Attendees: We want to make clear to Town meeting voters that Siasconset Beach Preservation Fund (SBPF)takes no position on the Special Town Meeting II,Warrant Article #1,which would require Town Meeting approval for a "non-governmental"use of the beach.While our current project is operating under the legal structure recommended and approved by the Select Board,we are fine seeking a Town Meeting vote for future projects at the appropriate time if required.We are confident that when the time comes,most will understand that our erosion protection project is clearly a "Win-Win"for Nantucket. As many know from thousands of visits to our observation area on Baxter Road near Sankaty Light, the project is working well.Five years after installation: •There has been zero erosion in the area being protected by the geotubes. •Beach grass has stabilized the face of the bluff. •There has been no harm to neighboring beaches. •The beach remains usable year-round. •Ongoing sand delivery contributes more sand than is lost by erosion. These facts have been confirmed by an extensive,peer-reviewed monitoring program studying the project and overseen by the Nantucket Conservation Commission.All at zero cost to the Town. SBPF is now moving forward with the permitting process to extend the project from the current 1000 feet of bluff protection to about 3500 feet as planned 5 years ago.Once that permit is issued we intend to seek from the Town the continued permission to build and maintain the geotubes which are mostly located on Town-owned beach.That's the only place they can be put in order to protect the bluff and the homes,Bluff Walk and road behind the bluff. The benefits include keeping Baxter Road open,preserving a neighborhood that includes many historic homes,maintaining the Bluff Walk and access to Sankaty Light House,and protecting the Town's tax base (which has lost over $150 million due to unchecked erosion). Regardless of which town body is required to issue or extend the permission that has been granted already for the current project,we will be happy to explain the reasons why this makes sense,not just for protecting the Sconset community,but for the entire island. The Board of 'Sconset Beach Preservation Fund: Josh Posner,President Albert E.Lussier,Jr. F.Helmut Weymar,VP and Treasurer John Osborn Douglas Hendrickson,Vice President Bruce Ritter Kermit Roosevelt,Clerk Elizabeth Singer Dorothy Bailey Thomas Tuttle Nancy Broil Robert Wilner Richard B.Green Page 3 of 3 existing geotextile revetment. We have shown that the basis for that volume calculation is flawed and underrepresents the bluff contribution to the littoral system. Thus, any proposal for fixed or adaptive mitigation programs first need to be based on appropriate calculations of contribution rates before discussions of the short comings of the implementation and design can be productive. Without accurately representing the bluff’s natural contribution to the system, any mitigation program will fail to mitigate for the adverse impacts caused by this project. Figure 1. Shoreline change plot utilizing data from the 77th Southeast Nantucket Beach Monitoring Report, dated September 2018. This figure is set-up differently than Figure 3 from the September 2018 Monitoring Report. This figure is set up to assist the reader in visualizing the shoreline changes pre- and post-geotube installation. The perspective is that you are looking at the shoreline (x-axis) from the ocean. South is to the left, north is to the right. The average rate of shoreline retreat (erosion of land) is plotted above the x-axis (negative y-axis values toward the top) while the average rate of shoreline advance (beach expansion toward the ocean) is plotted below the x-axis (positive y-axis values toward the bottom). The expansion would have adverse impacts. Here are four. #1 Adverse Impacts: The public beach will narrow and eventually disappear. The science is irrefutable. #2 Adverse Impacts: Immediately upon construction three (3) additional acres of beach habitat will be destroyed. #3 Adverse Impacts: As demonstrated, end scour will continue, resulting in need to extend the installation. #4 Adverse Impacts: The beach will become a continual construction site, requiring its own bulldozer. There are reasonable alternatives to hard- armoring almost 4,000 feet of beach. Here are four. #1 Reasonable Alternative: Soft structures. #2 Reasonable Alternative: Relocate structures westward into road layout. #3 Reasonable Alternative: Implement shovel- ready plans for relocation of northern Baxter Road. #4 Reasonable Alternative: Planning for relocation of entire length of Baxter Road now underway. Plan-It No.Dept./Request FY20 Rqst.CapCom Rec. Appendix A – Capital Requests by Account & Department (w/Request Descriptions) ADMIN-20-004 Town Wide Document Management Solution [cont. Pilot]$.1M $.1M ADMIN-20-005 Coastal Resiliency Plan $.55M $.55M Initial funding for critical project addressing island-wide erosion impact begun in FY18. Milone & MacBroom is retained for consulting services and have conducted two public forums. A major workshop on January 8, 2019 brought together over 55 stakeholders to map-out next steps. State grant secured to help with public outreach needed to develop the Plan. TON has been awarded up to $200,000 in the State’s recently issued economic bond bill, earmarked for this. There is likely a local match but provisions of the bill are not yet disseminated. ADMIN-20-006 Baxter Road Relocation $.5M $.5M Estimates for a scope and rough budget for the Baxter Rd erosion utility relocation plan to relocate the existing roadway and public utilities to a more secure alignment to protect from imminent threat of coastal bluff erosion provided by Weston & Sampson. This is a rough ‘ballpark’ costs for planning/preliminary design and final design of the roadway relocation(s) and associated evaluation (with new water and sewer lines).ADMIN-20-007 Meeting Room Trailer $.45M $.45MLoss of 4FG Training Room has made it apparent that TON needs more permanent, functional meeting space that can accommodate up to 30 people with dedicated NCTV equipment and that meets all ADA requirements. Based on a site visit of the Central Fire Station at 131 Pleasant Street with SMRT Architects it is recommended that a modular trailer be located at this location adjacent to the administration portion of the building due to the high cost of renovating that facility and restrictions of the site (force main, parking configuration, condition of the station). lADMIN-20-008 Central Fire Station Reuse $.25M $.25MTown Administration reviewed multiple options for reuse of fire station at 131 Pleasant Street (from selling to tearing down & building a senior center to housing, etc.) and presented a recommendation to the Select Board. Based on a quick review by SMRT, costs to renovate the structure for meeting space or another use triggers code that is cost-prohibitive; however moving another department to the facility is efficient and cost-effective. approval. ADMIN-20-009 Strategic Planning [Transferred to Operating]$.15M $.M ADMIN-20-010 Senior Center Relocation Study $.15M $.15M Feasibility study & prelim site design for relocation of existing Senior Center to a new location. GENERAL FUND SUBTOTAL:$43.43M $36.39M Appendix A-3 of 4 Closing Thought: This is not any beach. It is a historic beach, a legacy to the inhabitants of Nantucket from the Proprietors.