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Mashpee Community Garden Advisory Committee: Update <br /> The Chair announced that the Mashpee Community Garden Advisory <br /> Committee is now an official committee. They will be meeting the third <br /> Wednesday of every month. He reviewed and distributed a list of the members. <br /> Rodney Collins, Town Manager, will be attending the first meeting. <br /> Expanding the Single Use Plastic Bag Ban Bylaw: Review of and Decision <br /> on Suitability of Provincetown Plastic Straw and Polystyrene Bans for <br /> Mashpee <br /> The Committee decided to wait until next month in order for the members to <br /> fully review the Plastic Straw and Polystyrene Bans By-law from Provincetown. <br /> ACTION ITEMS UPDATE <br /> Mashpee Greenway Re-design of and Funding for the Quashnet River <br /> Footbridge <br /> Mashpee CWMP: <br /> DNR Estuary Restoration/Shellfish Propagation; Update <br /> Rick York stated we now have water quality results showing the shellfish are <br /> improving water quality. The area we have been targeting with quahogs <br /> actually got better. He reviewed a graph of the report which showed a 30% <br /> nitrogen reduction. The graph showed the distribution of total nitrogen within <br /> the Waquoit Bay Estuary System, long term and during the summer of 2010 <br /> through 2017. He said they started the oyster project in Mashpee River in 2004 <br /> for the purpose of restoring oysters and in turn the oysters have improved water <br /> quality. The bottom line we were at the point of fish kill and when the nitrogen <br /> load is increased it produces algae blooms which choke up eel grass and we <br /> lose the eel grass, we lose the habitat for scallops and then we lost the scallops <br /> which is well documented. As you increase the nitrogen load more, the blooms <br /> get thicker and then they take up oxygen that they drive it down to 0 and <br /> everything dies. That is the point we were at in Mashpee River when we started <br /> the oyster project and since then we have not had any fish kills. We improved <br /> things a little bit and in the last three years we increased our quahog feedings, <br /> .we seeded 3 million, 5 million, and 8 million. We now actually see it in the data. <br /> 3 <br />