The CCRO team is pleased to announce the addition of two new sampling sites in Falmouth, the Childs River and Trout Brook. The Childs River begins its course in Mashpee, just south of John’s Pond. It flows through two defunct cranberry bogs and a set of ponds before entering Waquoit Bay, just west of the Quashnet River. These two sister rivers are home to remnant salter brook trout populations. The Quashnet has been under restoration for these fish since the late 70’s, and the Childs is on the cusp of a similar effort. This offers CCRO the unique opportunity to see how the trout stream restoration will affect the chemistry of the Childs River. Trout Brook, is a short tributary of the Old Silver Beach estuary. A flow of almost all groundwater, the headwaters are located in what appears to be an abandoned, and very overgrown cranberry bog. Over its short course it flows over a remnant dam and through an undersized culvert before meeting tidal waters, just a few meters from the mouth of Herring Brook, another CCRO site.
CCRO Adds Two New Sites
