From the Mashpee Enterprise · May 22, 2026 · By Lauren Surbey
At its May 18, 2026, meeting, the Mashpee Select Board voted unanimously to send a letter of concern to the state Secretary of Energy and Environmental Affairs about the Reserve at Quashnet Valley Country Club, a proposed 25-home subdivision at 234 Old Barnstable Road above the Quashnet River. Chair Michaela Wyman-Colombo said the state’s comment period had fallen between board meetings, while several Mashpee and Falmouth residents and Citizens for the Protection of Waquoit Bay had filed comments. The project was still under review by the state’s environmental policy office, though public comment had closed.
The letter asks the state, at a minimum, for a small community cluster system that would cut nitrogen and phosphorus to levels similar to central sewer treatment, and it describes what Mashpee and Falmouth are spending to clean up their waters. Wyman-Colombo said the Quashnet supplies about 25 percent of the nutrient flow into Waquoit Bay. Vice chairman David Weeden argued that building in the valley undercuts the towns’ restoration investments upstream, and the board added language urging the state to apply the strictest possible standards. Falmouth’s Water Quality Management Committee was weighing a similar recommendation to its own Select Board.
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