Taxpayers in Mashpee could be asked in the not-so-distant-future to approve a new surcharge on their tax bills, which would be used for wastewater cleanup in a method similar to how the the town has used a 3 percent surcharge to fund new parks, affordable housing projects and historic preservation initiatives. The town has looked to neighboring Sandwich, which may make use of a wastewater account that would accrue a 2 percent real estate-tax surcharge for sewer and other water-quality projects.
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