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s. Establish a program to encourage owners of property along the edge of the <br /> pond where erosion has taken place to revegetate with plants "natural" to the <br /> area. <br /> Landowners should be encouraged to stabilize eroded areas with vegetation <br /> common to pond edges. This sort of vegetation will not only reduce further <br /> erosion and siltation into the pond, but will be able to "more comfortably" <br /> withstand normal fluctuations of the pond. Guidance transmitted through <br /> the Mashpee-Wakeby Pond Management Committee may be the most <br /> effective route. <br /> 6. An education program for property owners around the pond and town <br /> officials regarding what to expect in natural and manipulated fluctuations <br /> should be implemented. <br /> Both the property owners who live around the pond and those in town <br /> government who make decisions about its management, need to be aware of <br /> how the pond responds in its "natural" state and what the limits and <br /> repercussions are of manipulations of pond levels. This allows all concerned <br /> to have more realistic expectations of pond level management. Particular <br /> emphasis should be given to avoiding construction at elevations less than <br /> 56.60 feet in areas near the pond. (The highest pond elevation recorded since <br /> 1994 was slightly above 56.40--at that level the pond was "spilling" by running <br /> over ground between the town beach and the spillway. It is suspected the <br /> maximum possible elevation of the pond is, therefore, somewhere in the <br /> 56.60 foot elevation.) <br /> Horsley & Witten, Inc. Mashpee-Wakeby Pond Management Plan <br /> Page 31 <br />