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List of Wastewater and Nutrient Enrichment Projects

Current Projects
Project	Type	Title	Planned End Date
Assabet River TMDL Water Quality	WWN	Water-quality monitoring and investigations to assess progress toward meeting the phosphorus TMDL for the Assabet River	2009
Blackstone River TMDL Water Quality	WWN	Nitrogen and sediment transport in the Blackstone River	2009
Taunton River TMDL Water Quality	WWN	Streamflow and loads for selected constituents in support of TMDL development for the Taunton River and its major tributaries	2009
Defining Nutrient Fluxes to Estuaries	WWN/ CTS	Defining nutrient fluxes to the estuaries of the Cape Cod National Seashore, MA, to assess alternatives for nutrient loading remediation	2007
Cape Cod Wastewater Alternatives	CCS/ WWN/ CTS	Analysis of wastewater and water resource alternatives, Cape Cod, Massachusetts, by use of a regional ground-water flow and local-scale, solute-transport models	2006
Recently Completed Projects
Project	Type	Title	Completion Date
Nutrient Criteria	WWN	Field studies for the development of numerical water-quality criteria for nutrients in Massachusetts rivers, streams, lakes, and reservoirs	2006
Robowell	WWN	Automated process for monitoring ground-water quality using established manual sampling protocols	2005
Cape Cod Emerging Contaminants	WWN /CCS	Occurrence of organic wastewater contaminants, pharmaceuticals, and personal care products in selected water supplies, Cape Cod, Massachusetts	2004
Phosphorus Type Curves	WWN/ CTS	Estimation of phosphorus plume length resulting from ground disposal of sewage-treatment effluent or septic effluent	2004

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