News
Town votes, watershed plans, CPWB projects and events, newest first.
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Mashpee updates sewer commission on Waquoit Bay agreement and next sewer phase
Mashpee officials said the three-town Waquoit Bay agreement was signed in spring 2024 and that a state funding application for the town’s Waquoit-area sewer work scored well.
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Ecologist says the Coonamessett restoration shows how to restore bogs better and for less
In a column, ecologist Christopher Neill argues studies of restored Coonamessett and Childs River bogs show native wetland plants return without costly peat excavation.
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Mashpee moves earlier sewer money toward the Waquoit Bay watershed permit
Mashpee’s wastewater superintendent proposed shifting money approved in 2022 for groundwater recharge studies to work on the town’s Waquoit Bay watershed permit.
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Mashpee adopts hazard plan naming coastal flooding and sea level rise as top risks
Mashpee’s Select Board approved an updated 285-page hazard mitigation plan that ranks coastal flooding and erosion first and expects sea level rise to worsen them.
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Mashpee sewer plant construction is on schedule, with pumping expected by July 2025
Mashpee’s Sewer Commission heard on July 16, 2024 that Phase One of the town sewer project is on track, with the treatment plant expected to start pumping wastewater by July 2025.
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State adds Bourne Pond land to the Waquoit Bay Reserve in a shared deal with housing trust
DCR closed on 2.7 acres along Bourne Pond for the Waquoit Bay Reserve, while an adjoining acre goes to five affordable homes.
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Waquoit Bay Reserve’s 2024 Cape Coastal Conference focuses on putting watershed plans to work
The Waquoit Bay Reserve’s June 2024 Cape Coastal Conference brought regulators, towns, scientists and shellfish growers together on putting watershed plans to work: permits, nitrogen-reducing septic systems, urine diversion, shellfish and funding.
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Mashpee herring runs improve in 2024, but the Quashnet run remains small
Early 2024 volunteer counts showed Mashpee’s three river herring runs matching or beating 2023, though the Quashnet River run stayed far below its long-term average.
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Mashpee voters approve $96.1 million for second phase of town sewer project
Mashpee Town Meeting voted 358 to 27 on May 6, 2024, for $96.1 million to build sewer Phase Two, aimed at cutting nitrogen in Popponesset Bay, pending a May 11 ballot vote.
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Green infrastructure planned to treat runoff at the Waquoit Bay public boat ramp
APCC and partners are designing nature-based stormwater controls for the Waquoit Bay boat ramp so road and lot runoff stops draining straight into the bay.
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Water Protection Fund will pay its 25% subsidy over the life of town loans
The regional fund that subsidizes Cape sewer projects switched from up-front principal forgiveness to payments spread across each loan’s term, to keep the fund solvent.
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Mashpee boards back $96 million for second phase of town sewer project
Mashpee’s Select Board and Sewer Commission backed a roughly $96 million Town Meeting article for sewer Phase Two, aimed at cutting nitrogen in Popponesset Bay, a neighboring watershed to Waquoit Bay.
