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As of 5pm 🕔, Thursday, March 19th, 2026 the cut of Edgartown Great Pond continues to drain into the #AtlanticOcean 🌊 and is flowing well. Thanks 🙏 @sully7777777777 for the footage! #greatpondfoundation #edgartown #marthasvineyard
As of 5pm 🕔, Thursday, March 19th, 2026 the cut of Edgartown Great Pond continues to drain into the #AtlanticOcean 🌊 and is flowing well. Thanks 🙏 @sully7777777777 for the footage! #greatpondfoundation #edgartown #marthasvineyard
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As of 5pm 🕔, Thursday, March 19th, 2026 the cut of Edgartown Great Pond continues to drain into the #AtlanticOcean 🌊 and is flowing well. Thanks 🙏 @sully7777777777 for the footage! #greatpondfoundation #edgartown #marthasvineyard
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The EGP cut is officially underway as of this morning! 🌊🥳 
Pre-cut, the Pond sat at 4.84 ft LMSL, causing some areas to flood. The third shot captures a flooded area in Turkeyland Cove taken yesterday before the cut. 📸 Bigs thanks to @sully7777777777 for capturing these incredible shots and for sharing them with us! Here’s to a long successful cut 🤩we will make sure to keep you updated! ‼️Don’t forget to visit our EGP cut status page on our website for latest EGP data 🔗 in bio.
The EGP cut is officially underway as of this morning! 🌊🥳 
Pre-cut, the Pond sat at 4.84 ft LMSL, causing some areas to flood. The third shot captures a flooded area in Turkeyland Cove taken yesterday before the cut. 📸 Bigs thanks to @sully7777777777 for capturing these incredible shots and for sharing them with us! Here’s to a long successful cut 🤩we will make sure to keep you updated! ‼️Don’t forget to visit our EGP cut status page on our website for latest EGP data 🔗 in bio.
The EGP cut is officially underway as of this morning! 🌊🥳 
Pre-cut, the Pond sat at 4.84 ft LMSL, causing some areas to flood. The third shot captures a flooded area in Turkeyland Cove taken yesterday before the cut. 📸 Bigs thanks to @sully7777777777 for capturing these incredible shots and for sharing them with us! Here’s to a long successful cut 🤩we will make sure to keep you updated! ‼️Don’t forget to visit our EGP cut status page on our website for latest EGP data 🔗 in bio.
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The EGP cut is officially underway as of this morning! 🌊🥳 
Pre-cut, the Pond sat at 4.84 ft LMSL, causing some areas to flood. The third shot captures a flooded area in Turkeyland Cove taken yesterday before the cut. 📸 Bigs thanks to @sully7777777777 for capturing these incredible shots and for sharing them with us! Here’s to a long successful cut 🤩we will make sure to keep you updated! ‼️Don’t forget to visit our EGP cut status page on our website for latest EGP data 🔗 in bio.
1 week ago
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2/9
Join the Community Climate Discussion 🌎‼️ 🗓️Saturday, March 14th | 1:30 - 3:00 pm 📍Oak Bluffs Public Library or virtually on Zoom (link in bio 👆) ➡️Join Emily Reddington our Executive Director for a presentation and discussion on how our ponds serve as “canaries in the coal mine” and learn how our actions on land affect the fate of the ponds. ➡️Using ponds and watersheds as a framework we will discuss the island-wide efforts to amend bylaws that reduce erosion, runoff, and clearcutting while supporting intact, native habitats. ℹ️For more information email energy@oakbluffsma.gov
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Join the Community Climate Discussion 🌎‼️ 🗓️Saturday, March 14th | 1:30 - 3:00 pm 📍Oak Bluffs Public Library or virtually on Zoom (link in bio 👆) ➡️Join Emily Reddington our Executive Director for a presentation and discussion on how our ponds serve as “canaries in the coal mine” and learn how our actions on land affect the fate of the ponds. ➡️Using ponds and watersheds as a framework we will discuss the island-wide efforts to amend bylaws that reduce erosion, runoff, and clearcutting while supporting intact, native habitats. ℹ️For more information email energy@oakbluffsma.gov
3 weeks ago
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3/9
Love the water? 🌊 Love being out on a boat? 🛶 Want to learn more about water quality monitoring? Sounds like this is the internship for you 🫵 Join us on the coastal ponds of Martha’s Vineyard this summer ☀️. We are hiring 2️⃣ summer science interns this summer. Applications are still open. 🗓️ Apply by Friday, February 27th Visit our hiring page for application details 🔗 IN BIO #internship #hiring #greatpondfoundation #marthasvineyard #science
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Love the water? 🌊 Love being out on a boat? 🛶 Want to learn more about water quality monitoring? Sounds like this is the internship for you 🫵 Join us on the coastal ponds of Martha’s Vineyard this summer ☀️. We are hiring 2️⃣ summer science interns this summer. Applications are still open. 🗓️ Apply by Friday, February 27th Visit our hiring page for application details 🔗 IN BIO #internship #hiring #greatpondfoundation #marthasvineyard #science
1 month ago
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4/9
Do you ❤️ Edgartown Great Pond? Whatever your connection to the Pond, we all share 🤝one essential responsibility; to preserve & protect this rare Island treasure. Right now more than ever the Pond needs your help. ⚠️ Edgartown Great Pond is at its tipping point.
Adding more nitrogen will push it over the edge. In 2022 Edgartown Great Pond exceeded its nitrogen limit. As a result we lost hundreds of acres of eelgrass and cyanobacteria🦠 increased. As of 2025 the Pond is showing signs of resilience and eelgrass is beginning to return. Adding more nitrogen will reverse this progress, potentially making restoration impossible. 
If we don’t act now, the swimming 🏊‍♀️ , sailing ⛵️ , shellfishing 🦪 we all take for granted will no longer be an option. You cannot swim in a toxic pond. It’s a privilege to live here and be part of this community, where your voice matters. 📣Please raise your voice.. 📅 Join the MVC hybrid meeting
Thursday, February 12 | 6:30 PM
There will be continued discussion on the Katama Meadows proposal.
You can submit a comment or register to speak. 🔗 For meeting details and background, visit the Choose Both: Island Environment & Housing news post LINK IN BIO 👆
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Do you ❤️ Edgartown Great Pond? Whatever your connection to the Pond, we all share 🤝one essential responsibility; to preserve & protect this rare Island treasure. Right now more than ever the Pond needs your help. ⚠️ Edgartown Great Pond is at its tipping point.
Adding more nitrogen will push it over the edge. In 2022 Edgartown Great Pond exceeded its nitrogen limit. As a result we lost hundreds of acres of eelgrass and cyanobacteria🦠 increased. As of 2025 the Pond is showing signs of resilience and eelgrass is beginning to return. Adding more nitrogen will reverse this progress, potentially making restoration impossible. 
If we don’t act now, the swimming 🏊‍♀️ , sailing ⛵️ , shellfishing 🦪 we all take for granted will no longer be an option. You cannot swim in a toxic pond. It’s a privilege to live here and be part of this community, where your voice matters. 📣Please raise your voice.. 📅 Join the MVC hybrid meeting
Thursday, February 12 | 6:30 PM
There will be continued discussion on the Katama Meadows proposal.
You can submit a comment or register to speak. 🔗 For meeting details and background, visit the Choose Both: Island Environment & Housing news post LINK IN BIO 👆
2 months ago
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5/9
It isn’t a choice of housing 🏠or environment💧. Martha’s Vineyard deserves both! Samantha Look, Executive Director of Vineyard Conservation Society and Emily Reddington, Executive Director of Great Pond Foundation will be presenting and holding a community discussion covering about the proposed high-density development threatening Edgartown Great Pond. 📣 @vineyardconservation, Great Pond Foundation, & @vineyardpreservation welcome 🫵 you to join the conversation. THURSDAY, FEB 5th at 5:30 PM at the CARNEGIE‼️ Thank you 🙏 @vineyardpreservation for hosting this event! #marthasvineyard #community #environment #housing #protect
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It isn’t a choice of housing 🏠or environment💧. Martha’s Vineyard deserves both! Samantha Look, Executive Director of Vineyard Conservation Society and Emily Reddington, Executive Director of Great Pond Foundation will be presenting and holding a community discussion covering about the proposed high-density development threatening Edgartown Great Pond. 📣 @vineyardconservation, Great Pond Foundation, & @vineyardpreservation welcome 🫵 you to join the conversation. THURSDAY, FEB 5th at 5:30 PM at the CARNEGIE‼️ Thank you 🙏 @vineyardpreservation for hosting this event! #marthasvineyard #community #environment #housing #protect
2 months ago
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6/9
The Great Pond looks like a frozen tundra. Please be safe and remember that brackish ponds take longer to freeze 🥶 than freshwater ponds because of the salt 🧂. For now, we are admiring this winter ❄️ wonderland from the shore. #edgartowngreatpond #marthasvineyard #islandlife #frozen #ice
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The Great Pond looks like a frozen tundra. Please be safe and remember that brackish ponds take longer to freeze 🥶 than freshwater ponds because of the salt 🧂. For now, we are admiring this winter ❄️ wonderland from the shore. #edgartowngreatpond #marthasvineyard #islandlife #frozen #ice
2 months ago
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🔴Edgartown Great Pond is currently rebounding and eelgrass is returning💚! We have seen eelgrass growth with our own 👀in numerous locations in the pond. However, this progress and ecosystem could could be threatened… 🔴The controversial proposed housing development in Edgartown, formerly known as DRI 773 (Katama Meadows), is once again under review with a slightly modified proposal and a new DRI number, DRI 780. This means that the new proposal will NOT include comments previously submitted about the Katama Meadows project. The previous proposal received 70+ letters from the community in opposition… YOU can help…. 📣Please raise your voice for the Great Pond. If you have submitted a comment before and you would like to submit now, email saltzberg@mvcommission.org before TOMORROW, January 22 5pm A full discussion on this project will be held at the MVC tomorrow, January 22 at 6:30 pm… please attend in person or on Zoom. MORE INFORMATION ‼️ ✉️ Read GPF’s complete letter to MVC 🔗 in bio 👆 🚨For more information about the project and tomorrow’s meeting 🔗 in bio 👆
🔴Edgartown Great Pond is currently rebounding and eelgrass is returning💚! We have seen eelgrass growth with our own 👀in numerous locations in the pond. However, this progress and ecosystem could could be threatened… 🔴The controversial proposed housing development in Edgartown, formerly known as DRI 773 (Katama Meadows), is once again under review with a slightly modified proposal and a new DRI number, DRI 780. This means that the new proposal will NOT include comments previously submitted about the Katama Meadows project. The previous proposal received 70+ letters from the community in opposition… YOU can help…. 📣Please raise your voice for the Great Pond. If you have submitted a comment before and you would like to submit now, email saltzberg@mvcommission.org before TOMORROW, January 22 5pm A full discussion on this project will be held at the MVC tomorrow, January 22 at 6:30 pm… please attend in person or on Zoom. MORE INFORMATION ‼️ ✉️ Read GPF’s complete letter to MVC 🔗 in bio 👆 🚨For more information about the project and tomorrow’s meeting 🔗 in bio 👆
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🔴Edgartown Great Pond is currently rebounding and eelgrass is returning💚! We have seen eelgrass growth with our own 👀in numerous locations in the pond. However, this progress and ecosystem could could be threatened… 🔴The controversial proposed housing development in Edgartown, formerly known as DRI 773 (Katama Meadows), is once again under review with a slightly modified proposal and a new DRI number, DRI 780. This means that the new proposal will NOT include comments previously submitted about the Katama Meadows project. The previous proposal received 70+ letters from the community in opposition… YOU can help…. 📣Please raise your voice for the Great Pond. If you have submitted a comment before and you would like to submit now, email saltzberg@mvcommission.org before TOMORROW, January 22 5pm A full discussion on this project will be held at the MVC tomorrow, January 22 at 6:30 pm… please attend in person or on Zoom. MORE INFORMATION ‼️ ✉️ Read GPF’s complete letter to MVC 🔗 in bio 👆 🚨For more information about the project and tomorrow’s meeting 🔗 in bio 👆
2 months ago
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Check out our latest newsletter🗞️!! Speak for the pond: Katama Development Update, Intern Art & Elevation data… In the newsletter you will find information about: 👉the new Katama Meadows proposal under review with the MVC 👉science through art with our 2025 intern & future intern opportunities… apply today! 👉and recent pond elevation data 🔗LINK IN BIO
Check out our latest newsletter🗞️!! Speak for the pond: Katama Development Update, Intern Art & Elevation data… In the newsletter you will find information about: 👉the new Katama Meadows proposal under review with the MVC 👉science through art with our 2025 intern & future intern opportunities… apply today! 👉and recent pond elevation data 🔗LINK IN BIO
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Check out our latest newsletter🗞️!! Speak for the pond: Katama Development Update, Intern Art & Elevation data… In the newsletter you will find information about: 👉the new Katama Meadows proposal under review with the MVC 👉science through art with our 2025 intern & future intern opportunities… apply today! 👉and recent pond elevation data 🔗LINK IN BIO
2 months ago
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