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Health staff fielded hundreds of calls from the public the end of the year and a 2022 build-out is planned in with questions about when and where to get tested the former location of the Cherrystones Restaurant on and/or vaccinated, how to determine close contacts, Route 151. when and how to isolate and/or quarantine,and how to comply with the Travel Order. Tighe & Bond, the environmental engineering firm that oversees the post-closure requirements for the Health Agents monitored epidemiological data Asher's Path Sanitary Landfill, identified two landfill compiled by MA DPH and Barnstable County gas wellheads that were in need of replacement and Department of Health & Environment throughout the repair, and those were addressed. year, and monitored new COVID-19 variants of concern; stayed current on the state's vaccination The Board of Health revised the Short-Term distribution plan and re-opening plan; participated in Rental Regulation to include timeshare condominiums, COVID-related webinars;investigated COVID-related and the Food Establishment Inspection Regulation to complaints at business establishments throughout be in compliance with the 2018 Federal and State Food Town,and advised business owners regarding COVID- Codes. 19 exposures, contract tracing, return-to-work and cleaning protocols; provided daily case numbers to The Barnstable County Department of Health and public safety dispatchers and the Town Manager's Environment provided the summer bathing beach Office; and updated the Town website with the latest sampling labor and administrative reporting to the COVID-19 information and resources. At the end of Town and state. There was one freshwater and one 20219 1,459 residents were infected with seven saltwater beach closing due to bacteria. Santuit Pond resulting in death. experienced an algae bloom that was ongoing from June 14, 2021 to November 18, 2021. The bloom In the year 2021,remarkable progress was made started as a visible surface scum. The algae counts in the fight to end the pandemic;however, even as this exceeded the 70,000 cells/ml threshold on July 15, report is being prepared, COVID-19 continues to have 2021 which continued until mid-November. This was a widespread impact on public health across the nation. the seventh bloom in as many years.The beach closures Board of Health staff will persevere in support of the due to algae in Santuit Pond affect two bathing beaches; Mashpee community, and are always available to the boat landing and Bryant's Neck. The presence of a address questions or concerns from the public. toxin associated with the bloom was not confirmed by the state lab. No toxic levels of the toxin had been Two seasonal flu clinics were held,where a total found in any of the previous years with the algae of 183 vaccines were administered. We would like to bloom. Advisories were posted at Ashumet Pond for thank the Council on Aging for providing volunteers, one week in July, but that algae bloom did not affect the Cape Cod Healthcare Outpatient Pharmacy and the the entire pond. Mashpee-Wakeby Pond had its first VNA for facilitating such smooth and orderly clinics, algae bloom that affected the entire pond. The bloom and Christ the King Parish for use of their parish hall. occurred starting on June 22, 2021 to July 6, 2021. Four bathing beaches are affected by the algae closure: Notable commercial projects included the Attaquin, YMCA, Trustees of Reservations on the approval of a Recreational Marijuana Permit for Triple Mashpee Pond and Wakeby Pond sides. M at their facility on April 15, 2021, and conditional approval of an application for a marijuana cultivation In order to evaluate the surrounding properties facility at Wags Road for Aspen Blue, LLC. A effect on Santuit Pond, a survey of their on-site septic proposed plan for a Wendy's Restaurant at former systems was ordered by the Board of Health. The order location of Honey Dew Donuts was given preliminary included the inspection and pumping of all septic approval. A new seasonal Food Establishment Permit systems on properties within 300 feet of the pond. was granted to Brownie's by the Sea, located in Seven properties with cesspools and 13 other Title 5 Popponesset Marketplace, and to Duke's Donuts, septic systems were found to be in failure. At the time located in Mashpee Commons. New Bodywork of this report,the Board was still deliberating whether Facility and Practitioner Permits were granted at Cape to require upgrades or offer extensions to the owners, Cod Wellness Works, located at 17 Trinity Place. due to the future funding of sewers in the area. Sherwin-Williams Paint Store plans were reviewed at 112