The
Air Force Center for Environmental Excellence (AFCEE) announced today that
it will host a meeting of the Ashumet Pond Nutrients Advisory Group (APNAG)
on Thursday, August 8, 2002. The meeting will begin at 6:00 p.m. in the
Barnstable County Fairgrounds Administration Building on Route 151 in
Falmouth. The public is encouraged to attend.
The purpose of the meeting is to update the community regarding the
Ashumet Pond phosphorus inactivation project that AFCEE conducted last
fall. The project applied liquid alum to 28 of the pond’s 203 acres in
an effort to reduce the release of phosphorus from the pond’s bottom
sediments.
The military base’s former wastewater treatment plant was a
significant source of the phosphorus. Although the plant was closed in
1995, phosphorus has been traveling from the base in a groundwater plume
with a portion of it discharging into Ashumet Pond. Phosphorus and other
nutrients also enter the pond through residential septic systems and
stormwater runoff.
The APNAG provides comments and advice on proposed AFCEE actions for
reducing phosphorus inputs to Ashumet Pond from MMR’s former wastewater
treatment plant.
For more information about this project, please call Mr. Doug Karson at
(508) 968-4670 x 4678.
