Final Great Pond Targeted Watershed Management Plan

Final Great Pond Targeted Watershed Management Plan / Supplemental Environmental Impact Report- December 1, 2022 - Text, by Section

  1. Great Pond TWMP Final Report - Table of Contents and Glossary of Acronyms
  2. Great Pond TWMP Final Report - Executive Summary
  3. Great Pond TWMP Final Report - Section 1
  4. Great Pond TWMP Final Report - Section 2
  5. Great Pond TWMP Final Report - Section 3
  6. Great Pond TWMP Final Report - Section 4
  7. Great Pond TWMP Final Report - Section 5
  8. Great Pond TWMP Final Report - Section 6
  9. Great Pond TWMP Final Report - Section 7
  10. Great Pond TWMP Final Report - Section 8
  11. Great Pond TWMP Final Report - Section 9
  12. Great Pond TWMP Final Report - Section 10
  13. Great Pond TWMP FInal Report - Figures

Great Pond Targeted Watershed Management Plan / Supplemental Environmental Impact Report - December 1, 2022 - Appendices

  1. Appendix 1-1 MEPA Certificates and Response Letters
  2. Appendix 3-1 Assessment of Bournes Pond Oyster Aquaculture Effects on Water Quality and Nutrient Cy
  3. Appendix 3-2 Best Practices Guide for Nitrogen Remediation Using Oyster Aquaculture
  4. Appendix 3-3 Request for Statements of Qualifications - Falmouth MA Aquaculture Services
  5. Appendix 3-4 Field Scale Validation of Permeable Reactive Barriers for Non-Point Source Groundwater
  6. Appendix 3-5 Falmouth BMP Pollutant Reduction Estimate Summary, Prepared by Comprehensive Environme
  7. Appendix 3-6 Falmouth Stormwater and Runoff Management Mailer
  8. Appendix 3-7 Falmouth Fertilizer Bylaw
  9. Appendix 3-8 Fertilizer Management Annual Mailers- Town of Falmouth and MES
  10. Appendix 3-9 Diagnostic Assessment of Nutrient Cycling in Mill Pond, Prepared by SMAST
  11. Appendix 3-10 Scope of Work- Technical Support for the Town of Falmouth Mill Pond Nutrient Managem
  12. Appendix 3-11 Mill Pond Nutrient Removal Pilots Update, Prepared by SMAST and Dated Aug 17, 2021
  13. Appendix 3-12 Evaluating the Effects of Replacing Septic Systems with Municipal Sewers on Groundwat
  14. Appendix 3-13 Scope of Work- Technical Support for Assessing the Ecological Health of Little Pond (2)
  15. Appendix 3-14 Nitrogen Reducing Innovation and Alternative Septic Systems Installed in Falmouth
  16. Appendix 3-15 Final Report- Designing a Municipal Model for Mandating, Funding, and Managing Innova
  17. Appendix 3-16 I-A Proposed Bylaw, Draft Dated May 2, 2021
  18. Appendix 4-1 Falmouth WWTF FSP Including a Plant Evaluation and Condition Assessment 2022
  19. Appendix 4-2 Town of Falmouth, MA Final Blacksmith Shop Road WWTF Phosphorus Removal Evaluation
  20. Appendix 4-3 Teaticket-Acapesket Study Area Discharge Technologies Evaluation- Tech Memo No. 3 2019
  21. Appendix 4-4 Great Pond TWMP Final Tech Memo 3 - Additional Site Characterizations of Allen Parcel, Beds 14 &15, and Augusta Parcel
  22. Appendix 4-5 FINAL Open Sand Beds 14 & 15 Hydraulic Load Testing Summary
  23. Appendix 4-6 Assessing the Effects of Effluent Discharge from Proposed Ocean Outfall Sites- W Falmouth - 2019
  24. Appendix 4-7 Crocker Pond, Potential Soil Attenuation of Phosphorous Migration from Infiltrating at Site 7
  25. Appendix 6-1 Falmouth Green House Gas (GHG) Evaluation - Great Pond TWMP
  26. Appendix 6-2 Great Pond TWMP MA Climate Resilience Design Standards Tool Analysis
  27. Appendix 10-1 2013 Falmouth CWMP Volume 1

ARTICLE 6 of the November 2023 Town Meeting funded the design and permitting of Phase 1 of the Great Pond Targeted Watershed Management Plan.  Please see the following documents for more information related to Article 6:


Article 6 Text, Recommendation and Explanation from Nov 2023 Town Meeting warrant book

Article 6 Map

Letter in Support of Article 6 by Wastewater Superintendent and Water Quality Management Committee Chair, dated 10-5-23

Letter in Support of Article 6 voted by Water Quality Management Committee 10-25-23 (signed)

Letter re: Herring Brook from the School of Marine Science and Technology at UMass Dartmouth, dated 10-25-23

Letter in Support of Article 6 from the Association to Preserve Cape Cod, dated 10-5-23

Letter re: Article 6 from the Buzzards Bay Coalition dated 9-26-23

Herring Brook Report dated June 2023 (Linked Watershed Marsh Assessment and Modeling to Determine Critical Nitrogen Thresholds and Loading for the Herring Brook Estuarine System, Falmouth MA - by the School of Marine Science and Technology at UMass Dartmouth)

Below are links to the Final Great Pond TWMP/EIR dated December 1, 2022 (each section is a separate link, to make download/viewing faster) and to each of its Appendices.