Check out Three Bays Watershed: Landscape-Based Solutions to Improve Water Quality
The Three Bays Watershed and Marstons Mills River corridor is located in BArnstable, Sandwich and Mashpee on Cape Cod, Massachusetts. The watershed is part of three separate villages within the Town of Barnstable: Cotuit, Marstons Mills and Osterville. The Three Bays Watershed is comprised of Cotuit Bay, North Bay and West Bay. The watershed is an iconic Cape Cod landscape with unique ecological, historical, recreational and cultural resources. The watershed is situated in a complex landscape matrix that includes a mix of residential and commercial development, as well as a mix of ecological communities including: dunes, salt and freshwater marshes, shrub and forested swamps, cranberry bogs, coastal grasslands and Oak and Pitch Pine forests.
Presently, the water quality of the Three Bays is seriously impaired and routinely exceeds water quality standards for nitrogen. In 2016, a summer algal bloom occurred within the Three Bays, which caused fish kills and put the commercial oyster industry at risk. The ecological and cultural impacts brought increased public awareness to the developing water quality issue within the Three Bays. The causes of this water quality impairment include septic system leaching, stormwater discharge and runoff from adjacent lands.
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