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class represents 61% of all the parcels. Commercial properties are fairly limited within the <br /> watershed, with two small clusters located on Route 28 and Route 151. Relative to the Waquoit <br /> Bay System, residential land-uses create the major nutrient load. <br /> ESTUARINE MONITORING PROGRAM <br /> The Mashpee Water Quality Monitoring Partnership was established to collect baseline nutrient <br /> related water quality data and to track restoration and management "success"in Popponesset Bay <br /> and Waquoit Bay relative to the benchmarks established in the MassDEP/JSEPA TMDL3 for <br /> Popponesset Bay and Waquoit Bay, inclusive of its eastern sub-embayments. The program was <br /> first established to support the Massachusetts Estuaries Program (MEP)analysis for all of <br /> Mashpee's estuarine waters, which was completed in the summer 2011. The Town of Mashpee <br /> Estuarine Water Quality Monitoring Project focuses on the 2 estuaries within the Town,which <br /> provide significant recreational, fisheries and aesthetic resources to the Town's citizenry: <br /> • Popponesset Bay <br /> o Mashpee River <br /> o Shoestring Bay <br /> o Ockway Bay <br /> o Main Bay <br /> o Pinquisset Cove <br /> o Santuit River <br /> o Off Shore Station <br /> • Waquoit Bay <br /> o Hamblin Pond <br /> o Jehu Pond <br /> o Main Bay <br /> o Childs River <br /> o Eel Pond <br /> o Quashnet River <br /> o Red Brook <br /> o Great River <br /> As stated above, the concept underlying the establishment of the Monitoring Program by the <br /> Mashpee Warnpanoag Tribe and the Town of Mashpee was to establish a long-term water quality <br /> monitoring effort for Popponesset Bay and Waquoit Bay relative to the TMDL process, and <br /> compliance monitoring associated with the TMDL(Clean Water Act). The present monitoring <br /> effort is significantly reduced over prior sampling efforts for these estuaries, as the prior high <br /> frequency sampling was required to support the MEP analysis,while the present effort is to track <br /> long-terns changes due to the implementation of management alternatives for restoration of these <br /> nitrogen impaired bays. By establishing a stable, low frequency monitoring program and by <br /> using trained volunteers, costs of compliance monitoring to the Town have been significantly <br /> 3 TMDL or Total Maximum Daily Load is the regulatory requirement for restoration of an aquatic system under the <br /> Clean Water Act as proscribed by MassDEP and USEPA, <br /> 9 <br />