Mashpee Habitat Restoration Effort Receives Grant Award
We are serving as part of the project team to help improve fish passage at the Mashpee Pond Dam.
Congratulations to our client, the Association to Preserve Cape Cod, on receiving a significant $2.58 million grant award towards habitat restoration efforts along the Mashpee River in Mashpee, MA.
We are excited to be serving on the project team for this important ecological work to improve diadromous fish passage while strengthening community resilience to climate change. Other project partners include the Town of Mashpee, the Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe, the Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS), the Cape Cod Conservation District (CCCD), the Massachusetts Division of Marine Fisheries (DMF), MassWildlife, the Waquoit Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve (WBNERR), and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) Restoration Center.
We are working to replace several road-stream crossings on and adjacent to the Mashpee River as part of the restoration effort, including this culvert on Great Neck Road North in Mashpee, MA.
We have been providing the Town of Mashpee with data collection and engineering services to evaluate restoration feasibility of the upper Mashpee River. We also recently kicked off a related project to assess the replacement of several road-stream crossings on and adjacent to the Mashpee River. The projects seek to improve diadromous fish passage between Popponesset Bay and Mashpee-Wakeby Pond through barrier removal and natural channel design, enhance community resiliency, and build local capacity to lead future restoration actions.
The project was featured in the Boston Globe this week.
Fish ladder allowing fish to navigate upstream on the Mashpee River in Mashpee, MA.