From the Mashpee Enterprise · August 9, 2024 · By Lauren Surbey
At a July 29, 2024 Select Board meeting, Mashpee Wastewater Superintendent Jared Meader presented two articles for October Town Meeting. One would rescind money approved in May 2022 to evaluate groundwater recharge sites in the Waquoit Bay area; the other would move those funds to work on the town’s Waquoit Bay watershed permit, reflecting a change in focus for Phase 3 of Mashpee’s sewer plan. Board members said residents would welcome the move, noting a sense that Waquoit had been left behind in the town’s sewer phasing.
Meader described the hurdles in finding a site to return treated water to the ground, including real estate, conservation restrictions, vernal pools, white cedar swamps and other contamination, and said routing pipes around the town’s large share of conservation land is difficult but possible.
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