From the Mashpee Enterprise · June 5, 2025 · By Lauren Surbey
Mashpee’s conservation agents updated the Conservation Commission on three projects in late May 2025. The Red Brook Road culvert, shared with Falmouth, is badly damaged and hurts fish passage, flow and water quality; the $2,184,180 replacement, funded by state, federal, APCC and both towns, will also raise the road, with wetland and brook restoration to follow. At Johns Pond, headwaters of the Quashnet River that feeds Waquoit Bay, crews planned spot herbicide treatment of invasive milfoil in June after earlier treatments in 2021 and 2022 nearly eliminated it; the town’s five-year permit window has ended, so new filings are being prepared for Johns and Santuit ponds.
A design team is also planning a nature-like fish passage beside the underperforming Santuit Pond ladder, where birds were seen feeding heavily on herring.
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