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Homepage > News > BCWC lands $750,000 EPA pilot grant for bog restoration (10/14/21)

BCWC lands $750,000 EPA pilot grant for bog restoration (10/14/21)

October 14, 2021 In News

BCWC lands $750,000 EPA pilot grant for bog restoration
October 14, 2021
The Barnstable Patriot

$150,000 a year for five years to help restore 56 acres of cranberry bogs, clean up Three Bays

OSTERVILLE — Barnstable Clean Water Coalition (BCWC) was awarded a five-year, $750,000 Southeast New England Program (SNEP) Pilot Watershed grant from the Environmental Protection Agency.

As one of four recipients for this new grant program, BCWC will receive $150,000 a year toward restoring 56 acres of cranberry bogs at the headwaters of the Marstons Mills River to a natural wetlands system.

Excess nitrogen is the major contributor to Cape Cod’s ongoing coastal water quality problems. An estimated 40% of the excess nitrogen load for Three Bays Estuary transits these cranberry bogs.

This grant award will fund design, permitting, and a portion of the implementation of the cranberry bog restoration, which will be designed to maximize the system’s ability to reduce nitrogen pollution and transport downriver to the Three Bays estuary.

The grant will allow for continued funding of water quality monitoring in the Marstons Mills River, a key factor in determining the effectiveness of this restoration. The project seeks to provide a model for restoring water quality in other degraded areas throughout Cape Cod and New England.

“BCWC is excited to be named as one of the first-ever recipients of the SNEP Pilot Watershed Grant,” said BCWC Deputy Director Casey Chatelain. “Since water travels down the Marstons Mills River from the bogs to the Three Bays estuary in less than eight hours, this project is a unique opportunity to use a nature-based solution to mitigate nitrogen overload in a way that will have a rapid impact on the estuary.”

To learn more about this project, visit bcleanwater.org or email cchatelain@bcleanwater.org.


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