[CPEO-MEF] NATURAL RESOURCES: "River Projects Would Revive Flow Through Old Bogs" near Otis Air Force Base (MA)

[Lenny Siegel]

River Projects Would Revive Flow Through Old Bogs

By SAM HOUGHTON
Mashpee Enterprise (MA)
November 21, 2018
 
Town Meeting in May could be asked to fund two ecological projects that aim to restore abandoned cranberry bogs to the free-flowing rivers that once teemed with native fish.

Proponents of the two projects - Garner Bogs and the Upper Childs River Restoration Project, and the Upper Quashnet River Conservation Land Restoration - made their pitches to the Mashpee Community Preservation Committee last Thursday, November 15. With the green light from the committee, the requests likely would get to Town Meeting floor in May.

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Then, after the Air Force on Otis Air Force Base dumped fuel into the watershed for decades, the bogs became contaminated. In an effort to contain the contamination, the Air Force installed a large berm at the bogs and also treated and recharged groundwater into the bogs.

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For the entire article, see
https://www.capenews.net/mashpee/news/river-projects-would-revive-flow-through-old-bogs/article_0a470170-e3b3-5114-a279-68b133f46a60.html

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director
Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
P.O. Box 998, Mountain View, CA 94042
Voice/Fax: 650/961-8918 
<lsiegel at cpeo.org>
http://www.cpeo.org