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Nutrient pollution in Waquoit and Popponesset Bays has reached a grim new milestone: Both bays now show impaired water quality throughout, with no high-quality areas remaining.
That is the latest assessment by Brian L. Howes, a scientist with the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth who has for years worked with the Town of Mashpee and Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe to analyze the impact of nitrogen pollution on local waterways.
âFor the first time in 20 years, I have nothing good to say,â Dr. Howes said during a presentation to the Mashpee Board of Selectmen in the Waquoit Meeting Room at Town Hall on Monday, July 26.
MASHPEE Santuit and Ashumet ponds are closed to swimming because of blue-green algae blooms also known as cyanobacteria, which can emit toxins that are harmful to people and wildlife.
The Mashpee Department of Natural Resources provided information to the Mashpee Board of Health about surface algae scum floating in several locations in each pond, which prompted the board to close the ponds to swimming, according to the town s website.
The blue-green algae measurement in Santuit Pond showed a total cell count of 72,300 cells per milliliter and was made up of different cyanobacteria geneses, including 44% with woronichinia, 54% dolichospermum, 1% microcystis and 1% Aphanizomenon, according to the town.