What happened to the oysters that were placed in several saltwater ponds a year or so ago?
Mill Pond and Lonnies Pond have been seeded with oysters for the past few years, and Shellfish Officer Dawson Farber reports the oysters in Mill Pond are doing fantastic. In Lonnies Pond, siltation on the bottom of the pond has been a problem, and the oysters sank into the muck and died, although Dawson tried several remedies to keep them off the bottom. This spring some seeding will be tried at Cedar Pond as well, but the bottom of that pond is also problematic, and the water quality is currently unacceptable for harvesting shellfish. Shellfish propagation is a good supplement to sewering as part of our wastewater plan in order to get a faster fix for our impaired saltwater ponds. I was recently at the home of a friend who passed away. The Hospice staff flushed her unused medicine down the toilet. Isnt this bad for the environment? Yes, most anything that gets flushed down the toilet or washed down the drain goes through the septic system into the groundwater. But dont blame the Hospi
