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Under two tents on the Mashpee Middle-High School field, 436 voters at Mashpee Town Meeting on Monday, May 3 unanimously approved a $56 million wastewater treatment project to begin to correct decades of pollution. In impassioned speeches before the vote, town officials and residents recalled a bygone era before nitrogen-laden effluent from septic systems caused rampant algae blooms in the town’s bays that overwhelm native plant life and create dead zones as decaying algae absorbs oxygen from the water column. “If you’re my age or older and you’ve been in this town since the early 1980s, you know that under the blue-sky reflection in the Mashpee River, the upper reaches of Popponesset Bay, Santuit River, Waquoit Bay—underneath—if you were to look underneath the water, you could see the bottom, you could see your feet on the bottom, you could see eelgrass and the habitat it provided,” said Selectman Andrew R. Gottlieb. “You also know, if you l

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