Improving Water Quality at Town Neck Beach, Sandwich, Massachusetts

Mill Creek snakes its way through verdant marsh grass and out into sparkling Sandwich Harbor. This is a salt marsh, a coastal wetland that is a transition between the upland and the ocean. It's a fertile area for wildlife and shellfish, and it’s an important resource for the town of Sandwich, Massachusetts. Water quality is critical here. Stormwater runoff from nearby roads and the parking lots at Town Neck Beach was degrading water quality and making shellfish unfit for human consumption. In partnership with the USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS), local and state officials designed a project to address these concerns. This project is part of the Cape Cod Water Resources Restoration Project.

Read more at www.ma.nrcs.usda.gov.