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The Buzzards Bay CCMP 2012 Action Plan 13 Protecting and Restoring Ponds and Streams Problem149 Objective 13.3. Help restore impaired wetlands habitat. Many rivers and ponds in the Buzzards Bay water- Objective 13.4. Protect open space that enhances and shed are impaired because of toxic contaminants, bacte- protects lakes, ponds, and streams. ria, nutrients, sediments, nuisance species, temperature changes, barriers to fish migration, water withdrawals, Approaches alterations of flow, and other problems. The Massachu- This action plan requires complying with the Clean setts Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) Water Act. To achieve its goal, pollution sources in the reports these impairments to the U.S. EPA as required by watershed of each impaired body must be characterized, the Clean Water Act, in its “Integrated List of Waters” and where appropriate, a site-specific TMDL adopted. reports. These integrated lists classify bodies of waters This is complex, and an immense task, because dozens into different categories. For example, Category 5 waters of local subwatershed plans need to be developed. More- are impaired, and Category 3 waters are unassessed. As over, many bodies of waters and tributary segments have shown in Table 45, these impaired freshwaters (Category never been assessed, so the scope of the environmental 5) total 959.8 acres (of the 4,376 acres listed) and 16.0 challenge remains unresolved. linear miles of streams (of the 64.9 miles listed). DEP will need to develop TMDLs for each impaired To restore these waters will require considerable ef- water body identified on the 303(d) and Integrated Lists fort. The Clean Water Act requires that states identify in a timely way. Similarly, DEP will need to evaluate those waterbodies that are not expected to meet surface eventually all unassessed waters (those not included on water quality standards after the implementation of tech- the integrated list). nology-based controls and to prioritize and schedule Despite these challenges and prolonged timeline, and them for the development of a total maximum daily load the lack of funds and staffing to solve this problem, mu- (TMDL). These TMDLs establish the maximum amount nicipalities should establish local priorities and imple- of a pollutant that may be introduced into a water body ment common sense measures to reduce existing im- and still ensure attainment and maintenance of water pairments. Municipalities should establish water quality quality standards. TMDLs and restoration of these bod- task forces for priority freshwater systems and have the- ies of waters may require a local watershed plan. The se workgroups develop management strategies. Munici- effort to characterize and assess all these bodies of water, pal legislative bodies (town meeting or city council) and to restore impaired ones, represents an immense should authorize new funding to evaluate and develop challenge to both local and state managers. priorities for restoration, and to implement specific re- medial actions, like treating or eliminating stormwater Goals discharges. Interested residents should become involved Goal 13.1. Ensure that beneficial water uses150 will not in protecting and monitoring these freshwater systems. be lost, nor ecosystems adversely affected, by pollution Local laws and regulations are also needed to reduce the discharges, nuisance species, or alterations of flow to impacts of new development and to prevent new im- fresh surface waters in the Buzzards Bay watershed. pairments. Goal 13.2. Restore any beneficial water uses and eco- Costs and Financing system functions lost in watershed freshwater systems The development of watershed characterizations, lo- caused by pollution discharges, nuisance species, or cal watershed plans, and TMDLs for impaired waters, all alterations of flow and volume. have substantial costs (possibly millions over a decade). State, federal, and local government must all contribute. Objectives Costs that are more substantial will be borne by local Objective 13.1. Help adopt TMDLs for all freshwaters. government and property owners, and state and federal Objective 13.2. Help ensure that plans are developed government funds could leverage action. and implemented to meet recommended TMDLs. Measuring Success The percent of systems impaired, the total number of 149 This action plan was not in the 1991 CCMP, but elements were impaired systems, and the percent of unimpaired systems broadly covered in the original Wetlands Protection action plan. are all key measures for tracking progress towards the Impairments of marine waters are addressed in several other action goals of this action plan. Development of local water- plans. Other action plans support the goals and objectives here, shed plans and strategies; TMDLs, and number of sys- especially the Action Plans Managing Stormwater Runoff, and tems removed from the impaired waters list are other Protecting Wetlands. 150 Beneficial uses are those listed in Massachusetts Water Quality metrics for tracking progress. Standards, see entry in Glossary. 209 Background technology-based controls and to prioritize and schedule The 412 square mile Buzzards Bay watershed in- them for the development of a total maximum daily load cludes 7,594 acres of open waters and 1,684 acres of (TMDL). deep marsh151. The open waters consist of ponds of vari- Massachusetts DEP is responsible for assessing water ous sizes with only 64 larger than 10 acres. These 64 quality and wetland conditions in Massachusetts as to ponds total 2,241 acres.152 The numerous small and large whether they meet federal Clean Water Act goals. In its perennial streams in the watershed total roughly 700 Integrated List of Waters reports, DEP assesses whether miles, although major streams, including the rivers, total or not conditions support the designated uses of the wa- 153 ter body as defined in the Massachusetts Surface Water roughly 100 miles . 158 Many of the streams and ponds in the Buzzards Bay Quality Standards . DEP will classify the conditions as watershed are impaired because of toxic contaminants, “support,” “impaired,” or “not assessed.” They also iden- bacteria, nutrients, sediments, nuisance species, and oth- tify information needed to develop resource protection er problems154. The Massachusetts Department of Envi- and remediation strategies. This information is critical ronmental Protection (DEP) reports these impairments to for watershed management planning. the U.S. EPA as required by the Clean Water Act, in its As shown in Table 43 and Table 44 many streams “Integrated List of Waters” reports. These impaired wa- and ponds are unassessed or not fully assessed as to their ters are also known as “Category 5” waters on the state’s condition (Categories 2 and 3). For example, in the 2000 “Integrated List” of waterbodies and as “303(d)” listed list, for lakes and ponds in DEP’s Buzzards Bay water- waters, named after a section of the Clean Water Act. In shed, 53% were not assessed for primary use, 56% were 2001, the EPA released guidance for the preparation of not assessed for secondary use, and 83% were not as- an optional integrated list of waters that would combine sessed for aesthetics. Besides these listed unassessed reporting elements of both sections 305(b) and 303(d) of bodies of freshwater, there are many small streams and the CWA. The integrated listing format allows states to ponds not included (unlisted) in the DEP integrated lists provide the status of all their assessed waters in a single, (colored purple in Figure 93). The actual total length of all streams and tributaries in the watershed is 479 multi-part list. These integrated lists classify bodies of 159 water into different categories. For example, Category 5 miles , of which 365 miles are “major streams.” The waters are impaired, and Category 3 waters are unas- nine major rivers are the Westport River (East Branch), sessed155. Paskamanset River, Acushnet River, Mattapoisett River, Figure 93 shows the category classification of all the Sippican River, Weweantic River, Wankinco River, freshwaters in the Buzzards Bay watershed 156 and Table Agawam River, and Red Brook (see Figure 93). Similar- 45 shows the impaired (category 5) freshwaters that total ly, the total acreage of the 717 ponds in the watershed 959.8 acres (of the 4,376 acres listed) and 16.0 linear over 1 acre is 8,920 acres. miles of streams (of the 64.9 miles listed). DEP periodically updates these water-quality assess- To restore these waters will require considerable ef- ment reports to publish data available to the public, re- fort. Section 303(d) of the CWA157 require states to iden- view new data, determine changes in the use support tify those waterbodies that are not expected to meet sur- status of surface water bodies, determine the causes and face water quality standards after the implementation of sources of any use impairments, and to meet reporting requirements to the U.S. EPA. 151 This is based on the Mass GIS DEP 2001 wetlands coverage, Major Issues and modified by the Buzzards Bay NEP to exclude salt pond and estuary areas. One of the core goals of this action plan is to remove 152 Herring Pond in Plymouth is bisected as per Figure 1 freshwater rivers and ponds from the list of impaired 153 MassGIS “major stream” coverage including small pond con- waters of the Commonwealth, one of the underlying nections. 154 goals of the Clean Water Act. However, to achieve such Impairments of marine waters are addressed in several other a goal, pollution sources in the watershed of each im- action plans. 155 Impaired waters (Category 5) on the integrated list are the paired body, and other impairments must be character- “303(d)” listed waters, named after a section of the Clean Water ized. In many cases, a site-specific TMDL will need to Act In 2001 the EPA released guidance for the preparation of an be adopted. This is complex, and an immense task, and optional integrated list of waters that would combine reporting will require dozens of local watershed plans, including elements of both sections 305(b) and 303(d) of the CWA.
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