Introduction

Setting

Stakeholders

Issues

Existing (& Future) Conditions

Proposed Project(s)

Regulatory Compliance

Outline

• Town of Chilmark

- Board of Selectmen, Conservation Commission,

Planning Board, Town Counsel and Town Committee

on Squibnocket

• Landowners

- Squibnocket Farm Homeowners, Vineyard Open Land

Foundation, Friends of Squibnocket and Pond abutters

• Consultants

- 3 Coastal Geologists, 2 Env. firms, 2 Survey/Eng. firms,

2 Law firms, 1 Coastal Eng. and 1 Geotechnical Eng.

Stakeholders & Consultants

• Access to Squibnocket Farms

• Loss of Public Beach

GOAL: Adaptive Management

aka Managed Retreat

Two Immediate Problems

Wetland Resource Area Boundaries

Flood Prone Areas

Erosion Prone Area

• Remove coastal engineering structures

• Relocate and construct at-grade roadway

• Construct elevated roadway

• Reconstruct primary frontal dune

• Fill and replicate freshwater wetlands

• Relocate and construct parking lot

• Install underground utilities

• Provide canoe/kayak ramp to pond

Proposed Project(s)

Reconstructed Dune with Roadway

Wetland Resource Areas/Activities Matrix

Other State, Reg. and Fed. Regs./Activities

Matrix

What to do?

• Remove all coastal engineering structures.

• Restore/reconstruct the barrier beach.

• Construct access road or bridge that can be

permitted now*, but is sustainable into the

future.

* Under the Chilmark Wetlands Protection Bylaw and

the MA Wetlands Protection Act, at a minimum.

Three Long-term Solutions