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Waquoit Bay MEP assessment includes the whole watershed and estuary,including the eastern portions, <br /> and the water quality model was completed based on nine years (2002-2010)of water quality data.9 The <br /> refinements in the whole system linked model likely play a significant role in the scenarios not meeting <br /> the thresholds for the Eastern Waquoit subembayments. <br /> The results of the whole system assessment also indicate that the proposed changes in the eastern portion <br /> of the watershed are insufficient on their own to meet the Threshold concentrations throughout the <br /> system. This result reinforces that water quality management in Waquoit Bay will have to be coordinated <br /> among all three towns in the watershed. <br /> 9 Howes B.,S.Kelley,E.Eichner,R. Samimy,J.S.Ramsey,D.Schlezinger,P.Detjens(2011). Massachusetts <br /> Estuaries Project Linked Watershed-Embayment Approach to Determine Critical Nitrogen Loading Thresholds for <br /> the Waquoit Bay and Eel Pond Embayment System,Towns of Falmouth and Mashpee,MA,Massachusetts <br /> Department of Environmental Protection.Boston,MA. <br />