From MassDEP · March 13, 2025
MassDEP announced $825,000 in Natural Resource Nitrogen Sensitive Area grants to eight Cape Cod towns. Falmouth received $94,000 and Mashpee $65,000. The other recipients were Barnstable, Brewster, Chatham, Dennis, Wellfleet and Yarmouth. The program funds town planning to cut nitrogen pollution, mainly from wastewater, and the grants were chosen to help communities comply with the updated Title 5 and watershed permit regulations that took effect July 7, 2023.
The release said 31 Cape watersheds are now designated as nitrogen sensitive areas under Title 5. Falmouth and Mashpee, which share Waquoit Bay, together received about a fifth of the total. State Senator Julian Cyr pointed to the Cape Cod and Islands Water Protection Fund, created in 2018, as a lasting source of money for this work.
This is CPWB’s summary of an official announcement. The full text is published by MassDEP.
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