Mashpee public health officials are preparing to help coordinate the massive COVID-19 vaccine distribution effort on a local level whenever doses of the vaccine become available.
âIt is going to be a kind of all hands on deck type of response,â Mashpee Health Agent Glen E. Harrington said at the Mashpee Board of Health meeting on Thursday last week, January 21.
As the state prepares to vaccinate all people 75 and older, Mr. Harrington has reviewed the townâs demographic information and sent an estimate of the population that qualifies for vaccinations in Phase 2 to the state.
About one-third of the population of Mashpee, or about 4,500 residents, are over the age of 65. Of those about 2,500 are over the age of 75.
For more than a decade, nitrogen pollution has degraded the water quality in Popponesset Bay while the Town of Mashpee has continued to permit hundreds of septic systems that are the known source of the pollution.
In a report published earlier this month titled âCape Codâs Polluted Bays: A Decade of Missed Opportunities,â the Conservation Law Foundation counts 648 polluting systems within the Popponesset Bay watershed that have passed inspection or received a permit in the past five to 10 years.
Those 648 septic systems fall within the Town of Mashpee and the Town of Barnstable. The CLF in September announced plans to sue both towns and the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection to halt septic system installations and inspections.
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