Spotlight on Cape Cod

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Construction of a sewer system to serve the areas of Teaticket and Acapesket is projected for 2026.

“The town has put up money for design, and planning is currently underway and this is the timetable,” Water Quality Management Committee chairman Eric T. Turkington told the select board on Monday, December 21. “These two pieces both affect Great Pond, which except for Waquoit Bay, is the water body most in need of nitrogen reduction.”

While sewering will go a long way toward reducing nitrogen in Great Pond, it will not eliminate it.

“I will caution us, because 60 percent of the water that comes into this water body comes from the Coonamessett River system, sewering these two areas will get rid of a lot of the problem. It will not get rid of all of the problem,” Mr. Turkington said. “There is a lot of water coming in that isn’t coming from the “As you are well aware now, we have a permitted neighborhood. It is coming from north of [Route] 28.” capacity and we have a certain flow,” Mr. Turkington

Describing sewering as sensible, he said it is rea- said. “If we’re going to add any systems, in Teaticket, sonable to expect the water in Great Pond will “im- Acapesket or anywhere else, we’re going to need to prove a lot with this.” find a new place for the treated effluent that is pro-

New sewers must be accompanied by an up- duced to be discharged.” grade to the wastewater treatment facility, which Mr. Potential locations for a discharge site include Turkington described as “the easy one.” next to the wastewater treatment facility on Black-

“We have to keep it running and we have to keep smith Shop Road; at the Dorothea Allen parcel off it up to date,” he said. “A failure up there would be Carriage Shop Road, and at the Augusta parcel in too horrible to contemplate. I know Amy has come to Teaticket. The water quality management committee you with plans for upgrading what needs to be done is also considering an ocean outfall. up there,” he said, referring to wastewater superinten- “Before too long, we will be back before you with dent Amy Lowell. more detailed information and more detailed recom-

The upgrade is likely to go before Falmouth Town mendations on what the pros and cons are, and what Meeting in 2022. the town should be doing,” Mr. Turkington said.

“It is a no-brainer,” Mr. Turkington said. “You can’t The committee is also looking at Waquoit Bay. have a sewer system in town and not maintain it.” “Waquoit Bay, not only does it have navigation

There is also the matter of sewer discharge. continued on page 67

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Spotlight on Cape Cod continued from page 65 “As soon as there are results in Little Pond, we’re going to know exactly how successful this project has problems, it has the biggest nitrogen problem of any of been,” Mr. Turkington said. the estuaries we’ve talked about,” Mr. Turkington said. The Bournes Pond inlet widening, which will ex-

Waquoit Bay is shared by Falmouth, Sandwich, pand the inlet from 15 to 90 feet wide, is on schedule and Mashpee, with 48 sub-estuaries feeding into it. for 2021. It has received its design, state, and federal

“The first question is who is responsible for what, permits. All that remains is approval by the Falmouth as far as nitrogen,” Mr. Turkington said. “We went Conservation Commission. ahead, the town went ahead and had a consultant, Inlet widening, the installation of a permeable reacwith Mashpee’s and Sandwich’s consent, to do a tive barrier near Great Pond, the Mill Pond restoration study to try to allocate the nitrogen load to each dif- project, and the Eel River shellfish propagation program ferent town.” are necessary because of the high cost of sewers.

With study in hand, he said the next step is to “You’re not going to sewer every house on Cape discuss the matter with Mashpee and Sandwich to Cod,” Mr. Turkington said. “It just can’t be done.” determine what each individual town’s target will be. B Written by Brad Cole. Reprinted from the Faloston Area -

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Total maximum daily load is the maximum amount of nitrogen that can enter a body of water while still meeting water quality standards. Falmouth met the TMDL in West Falmouth Harbor without sewering.

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