This field visit was to understand the nature of the reported ruptured dike at the north end of the pond. This is a man made dam separating the pond from an abandoned cranberry bog sytem which lies between Rte 28 and the shore of the pond. We waded to the site along the northern shore starting from the Campbell property and easily found the ditch reported by Malcolm Campbell which enters the pond draining this fallow bog. A blank has been placed in the ditch to hold back water. It would appear that the stream contributes to the pond, however, it seems hard to believe that the flow is signicant enough to contribute to superheating the pond as was suggested at the public meeting.
Neighbors report that they feel the pond level had been dropping.
One source of water to the old bog is reported via storm drains on the Coombs property on Route 28. During this visit, eviscerated clam meats were seen floating and the intensely homogenous green algae color of this algae bloom has continued for nearly a month as the die-off rate lags behind bloom. Disturbance of the nearshore bottom, simply by wading, kicked up hundreds of decomposing or dying freshwater snails. Deep green penetrating color of the water near the Burton Family dock in the northeast corner of the Skinnequit pond shows water column full of anabaena a chained cell blue-green algae. Connie Burton photo.