From the Mashpee Enterprise · July 18, 2024 · By Bronwen Walsh
On July 16, 2024, Sandy Tripp of the consulting firm GHD gave Mashpee's Sewer Commission an update on Phase One of the town's sewer project. At the treatment plant, building exteriors are largely done, equipment and two of eight sewer pumps are installed, and the odor control parts are on site awaiting installation. Of the roughly $29.9 million plant contract, about $22.8 million has been paid, and 636 of 790 contract days are used. The plant is expected to be pumping wastewater by July 2025. The south-side work, including the Falmouth Road and Mashpee Neck pump stations, is about 80 percent complete. A $4.7 million Phase 1A contract, covering a Brewster Road pump station and a low-pressure line on Meetinghouse Road, began July 10, with completion estimated for February 2026.
Phase 2 design is moving ahead: the linear (pipe) work is at 30 percent design, five of six pump station sites are settled, and the groundwater discharge permit is the slowest step. At Pirates Cove, officials dropped a planned pump station for roughly 60 to 70 houses because of the steep hill and will use low-pressure grinder pumps instead, with bidding expected the following March. A resident also asked the commission to base sewer bills on measured water use, which the article says Falmouth recently did. Mashpee and Falmouth share the Cape's nitrogen problem, which is why CPWB follows sewer progress in both towns.
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