Future of the Quashnet Bogs in Mashpee

“Quashnet Future May Be Settled”
Cape Cod Times, May 29, 2008
By Stephanie Vosk

MASHPEE -- The conservation commission has been bogged down by the issue for over a year.

But it's decision time ... Tonight, the seven-member commission is expected to vote on the future of the Quashnet cranberry bogs.

Two main options are being considered -- find a grower to repair and cultivate the bogs or forgo the berry business and restore the Quashnet River ...

From the late 1990s until 2006, the Air Force paid the town for berries from the six bogs contaminated by ethylene dibromide, or EDB, from the Otis Air National Guard Base. ...

Since then, four of the six Quashnet Bogs have tested completely free of EDB, and the last two have only minimal traces ... ©

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