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- Sea Level Rise
- All About the Birds
- Piping Plover (Charadrius melodus)
- Environmentalists Buy Surplus Oysters to Boost Shellfish Industry and Restore Imperiled Waterways
- Diamondback Terrapins: A Girl’s Best Turtle
- A Dune’s Duties
- What’s Your Preference? Soft-shelled or Hard-shelled Clams?
- Eelgrass: Where Did it All Go?
- The Living Fossil of the Ocean
- Sea Sponges, Anemones, Tunicates Galore!
- Are You an Invasive Crab?
- Bioreactor Cranberry Bogs
- Who are those people in those waders?
- Algal Blooms
- Nutrient Overload 101
- National Water Quality Month: How You Can Make A Difference
- Welcome to the Living Laboratory: Come Learn with Us
- White Sock Challenge
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- For the first time, EPA moves to limit ‘forever chemicals’ in drinking water (3/14/23)
- Proposed septic tax credit would save Cape and Islands residents thousands. Here’s how. (3/7/23)
- Barnstable Clean Water Coalition needs help counting fish. Why, and what you can do. (3/7/23)
- Ban bill aims to slow spread of PFAS damage (3/4/23)
- PFAS are everywhere. Removing them from the Cape’s water supply will not be easy. (3/2/23)
- Flushing toilets on Cape Cod: Report shows waters increasingly polluted (2/22/23)
- Cape Cod’S Evolving Wastewater Crisis: Facing Reality and Finding Solutions (2/14/23)
- Discover Barnstable Podcast on Forever Chemicals
- BCWC Featured on WXTK (12/11/22)
- Thousands of Cape Cod homeowners may need to replace septic systems under new state regulations (11/28/22)
- Nitrogen Reclassification Will Put Emphasis On Innovative Systems (8/31/22)
- BCWC Featured on Chronicle
- New plans emerge to save many Cape Cod ponds, lakes threatened by pollution (6/23/22)
- Marstons Mills homes test nitrogen-removing septic wastewater system (6/3/22)
- BCWC on the Front Page of today’s Boston Globe
- Marstons Mills site of 1st national water quality study of its kind (5/18/22)
- Backed-up pipes, stinky yards: Climate change is wrecking septic tanks (4/12/22)
- Podcast Urges Water Stewardship On Cape Cod (4/8/22)
- New Septic Systems Promising In Protecting Upper Cape Water Systems (3/18/22)
- Rising temperatures a boon for harmful bacteria in Cape Cod’s fresh and salt water (2/2/22)
- Interview with Sunday Journal
- Mashpee Has No Good News About Its Struggles With Degraded Waters (11/12/21)
- A ‘powerful tool’: New septic system technology aimed at helping to clean up Cape waters (11/6/2021)
- PFAS advisory: State asks people to limit or not eat fish caught at 5 Cape Cod ponds (11/3/21)
- BCWC lands $750,000 EPA pilot grant for bog restoration (10/14/21)
- Group pilots alternative wastewater treatment system in Marstons Mills (10/11/21)
- Barnstable Clean Water Coalition To Break Ground On Innovative Septic System Project (10/5/21)
- First year of Wellfleet oyster project deemed success, as 25,000 pounds of shells recycled (9/30/21)
- Improving water quality in ponds starting to gain momentum says panel at regional summit (8/25/21)
- ‘It’s totally gone’: Mashpee’s water quality at an all-time low, report finds (7/29/21)
- Madaket Marine using oysters to combat algae blooms (7/22/21)
- Barnstable Warns of Fertilizer Threat to Ecosystem (7/19/21)
- Scientists find microplastics embedded in New Bedford and Cape Cod salt marshes (6/29/21)
- Conservation Law Foundation sues Barnstable, Masphee and state over wastewater cleanup (6/25/21)
- Cape ponds test positive for toxic bacteria (5/30/21)
- Rep. Keating Sees Legislative Opportunities For Cape Water Quality Goals
- My View: Time for Title 6
- CLF sues Barnstable over pollution in Lewis Bay (2/17/21)
- My View: Peers and Piers
- My View: NIMBYism and Wastewater
- ‘Looks Like Something’s Guts Spilled All Over The Beach’ (1/22/21)
- The cleaning power of oysters
- Barnstable High School launches $1.2M environmental science & technology lab (12/23/20)
- Lawsuit seeks major steps to stem septic pollution
- Lawsuit could disrupt real estate market in 2 Cape Cod towns (9/17/20)
- Pilot project uses bioreactor to filter nitrogen from Barnstable waters (9/4/20)
- Exploring Solutions to Excess Nutrients: Restoring Cape Cod’s Waters
- Hard times afflict Massachusetts’ iconic cranberry bogs, as economic and environmental changes reshape the industry
- Eastham, Orleans Shellfishing Areas Closed due to Red Tide Toxin (3/20/20)
- Relocate Cape Cod Hospital, halt risky expansion (3/9/20)
- Striking a balance (2/7/20)
- Troubled waters: Scientists test for links between lower herring counts & cyanobacteria (1/31/20)
- Cape seen as protected from weakening of Clean Water Act (1/24/20)
- County Connections – Featured Program: Massachusetts Alternative Septic System Test Center (1/16/20)
- Falmouth Water Quality Group Examines Alternative Septic Systems (12/24/19)
- 95 Environmental Rules Being Rolled Back Under Trump (12/21/19)
- APCC: Herring counts show mixed results (12/5/19)
- Cape Cod must move faster to clean its ground water and coastal embayments (10/9/19)
- At the Edge of a warming world (9/26/19)
- Sewer system could add value to a neighborhood (9/26/19)
- Federal grant to fund PFAS testing in Hyannis (9/25/19)
- BARNSTABLE AT WORK (8/26/19)
- Mashpee weighs wastewater management options (8/14/19)
- Researchers seek to head off blooming problem in Cape ponds (8/12/19)
- Pitch made for Upper Cape wastewater facility (8/7/19)
- $12 million water plant build gets underway in Hyannis (8/7/19)
- New Hyannis building will better treat water for PFAS (8/6/19)
- Summertime, And Toxic Algae Is Blooming: Here’s What You Need To Know (7/26/19)
- ‘Green’ stormwater systems helping clean coastal waters (7/25/19)
- Red tide raises threat of shellfishing closures (7/1/19)
- The Cape Has 1,000 Freshwater Ponds. How Many Are Toxic? (6/28/19)
- Barnstable Board of Health says no to amended regulations (6/26/19)
- Toxic blooms prompt Cape pond advisories (6/24/19)
- Santuit Pond Sounds Alarm On Freshwater (6/20/19)
- Cape scientists, inmates explore life in the dead zones (5/4/19)
- Watershed Action Alliance event addresses water issues (4/22/19)
- Are scalloping’s days numbered on Nantucket? (4/7/19)
- Board of Health Resume Discussion (1/22/19)
- Fla. red tide episode kills record number of sea turtles (1/17/19)
- Barnstable: Wastewater plan in the works (1/4/19)
- Easing of Barnstable’s nitrogen rules could prompt lawsuit (1/2/19)
- Health Board halts move to lift sewering cap (11/29/18)
- Barnstable Health Board delays action to modify water-quality regs (11/27/18)
- ‘The Cape is not a one-size-fits-all approach to planning’ (11/22/18)
- Barnstable Board of Health to consider lifting nutrient restrictions (11/21/18)
- Zoning for the future: ‘We’re going to get a lot louder,’ says Barnstable Clean Water Assoc. (11/15/18)
- Dredging of entrance to Cotuit Bay begins (11/5/18)
- APCC invests $1.2M in Three Bays stormwater management (10/29/18)
- Developing a roadmap: Barnstable, EPA officials fast-track nitrogen removal efforts (10/29/18)
- Barnstable Board of Health, Town Council leadership at odds over sewering, development (10/25/18)
- BARNSTABLE TOWN NOTES (10/19/18)
- Brew, oysters take center stage at Cape Cod Beer’s fest (10/17/18)
- Barnstable moves ahead with Cotuit Cut dredging (9/13/18)
- 50,000 oysters to grow in Hyannis tank (7/31/18)
- Watershed Update Presents Problems While Offering Hope (7/6/18)
- River Herring are Running in Local Rivers (4/20/18)
- Landscaping with native plants can help clean Cape waters (2/8/18)
- New book seeks to help Three Bays Watershed (1/25/18)
- Opposition to Sampsons project misplaced (10/25/17)
- Restoring a mill pond (10/8/17)
- Barnstable Town Council adopts draft of long-term wastewater treatment plan (9/11/17)
- APCC offers plan to reduce Three Bays nitrogen (9/1/17)
- Barnstable Clean Water Coalition: Cape’s nitrogen crisis is treatable (8/3/17)
- Cape’s nitrogen crisis is treatable (8/3/17)
- Three Bays Preservation renamed, focus expanded (8/2/17)
- Barnstable Clean Water Coalition Tackles Water Quality Crisis (6/29/17)
- Barnstable Clean Water Coalition renews call to action at Osterville open house (6/28/17)
- Barnstable Clean Water Coalition Tackles Water Quality Crisis
- Three Bays Preservation Gets New Name, Updated Mission (6/26/17)
- Press Release: Wonder of the Water Lecture Series (6/24/17)
- Coloring in between the lines of a blue economy (2/22/17)
- The Origins of Barnstable’s Drinking Water (1/13/17)
- Clean Water is a Fundamental Right of Citizenship (11/11/16)
- Three Bays Preservation: Wastewater is everybody’s problem (9/30/16)
- Told You So (8/22/16)
- Three Bays Preservation: We are one Cape (7/1/16)
- Paddle for the Bays: RACE Cape Cod
- Paddle for the Bays: RACE Cape Cod 2018
- Paddle for the Bays: RACE Cape Cod 2018 Photos
- Paddle for the Bays RACE Cape Cod 2018 Photos – 10 Mile
- Paddle for the Bays RACE Cape Cod 2018 Photos – 5 Mile
- Paddle for the Bays RACE Cape Cod 2018 Photos – Youth
- Paddle for the Bays RACE Cape Cod 2018 Photos – Relay
- Paddle for the Bays RACE Cape Cod 2018 Photos – Awards
- Paddle for the Bays RACE Cape Cod 2018 Photos – General
- Paddle for the Bays RACE Cape Cod 2018 Photos – Crew
- Paddle for the Bays: RACE Cape Cod 2018 Results
- Paddle for the Bays: RACE Cape Cod 2018 Photos
- Paddle for the Bays: RACE Cape Cod 2017
- Paddle for the Bays: RACE Cape Cod 2018
- Cape Cod Beer Race to the Pint
- Seasonal Water Steward (Seasonal Staff)
- Aquaculture/Education Intern
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- How You Can Protect Our Waterways
- Take Action Now
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- Paddle for the Bays RACE Cape Cod 2017
- Paddle for the Bays RACE Cape Cod 2018
- Paddle for the Bays RACE Cape Cod 2018 – Photos
- Paddle for the Bays RACE Cape Cod 2018 – Photos – 10 Mile
- Paddle for the Bays RACE Cape Cod 2018 – Photos – 5 Mile
- Paddle for the Bays RACE Cape Cod 2018 – Photos – Awards
- Paddle for the Bays RACE Cape Cod 2018 – Photos – Crew
- Paddle for the Bays RACE Cape Cod 2018 – Photos – General
- Paddle for the Bays RACE Cape Cod 2018 – Photos – Relay
- Paddle for the Bays RACE Cape Cod 2018 – Photos – Youth
- Paddle for the Bays RACE Cape Cod 2018 – Results
- Paddle for the Bays RACE Cape Cod 2018 – Photos
- Paddle for the Bays RACE Cape Cod 2019
- Paddle for the Bays RACE Cape Cod 2019 – Photos
- Paddle for the Bays RACE Cape Cod 2019 – Photos – 10 Mile
- Paddle for the Bays RACE Cape Cod 2019 – Photos – 5 Mile
- Paddle for the Bays RACE Cape Cod 2019 – Photos – Awards
- Paddle for the Bays RACE Cape Cod 2019 – Photos – Crew
- Paddle for the Bays RACE Cape Cod 2019 – Photos – General
- Paddle for the Bays RACE Cape Cod 2019 – Photos – Other
- Paddle for the Bays RACE Cape Cod 2019 – Photos – Relay
- Paddle for the Bays RACE Cape Cod 2019 – Photos – Youth
- Paddle for the Bays RACE Cape Cod 2019 – Results
- Paddle for the Bays RACE Cape Cod 2019 – Photos
- Living Lab Cape Cod Blog
- News
- Privacy Policy
- Resources
- Affiliated Organizations
- Aquifer
- BCWC Video Library
- Conservation Tips
- Cyanobacteria
- Drinking Water
- Emerging Contaminants in our Water
- Getting Involved
- How Can You Help Protect Our Local Waters
- MassDEP
- Native New England Garden
- Nitrogen & Phosphorus
- Precinct Maps
- Private Wells
- Town of Barnstable Resources
- Wastewater
- Water Quality Information
- Watershed Maps
- Sitemap
- Terms of Use
- Ways To Get Involved
- What We Do
Living Laboratory Cape Cod Blog
- Books
- Living Laboratory Cape Cod
- BCWC Projects
- Cape Cod
- Neighbors Take Action to Save Their Ponds
- PFAS: What Are They and Why Do We Care?
- Pot Calling the Kettle….Pond?
- Resources for Upcoming Citizen Forums – Town of Barnstable Sewer Assessment Ordinance Presentation
- Uninvited Guests Along Our Coasts
- Show your Support for Clean Water by completing this ARPA Survey!
- Newsletter
- Coalition Quarterly
- Coalition Quarterly – Issue 1 (Fall 2017)
- Coalition Quarterly – Issue 2 (Winter 2018)
- Coalition Quarterly – Issue 3 (Spring 2018)
- Coalition Quarterly – Issue 4 (Summer 2018)
- Coalition Quarterly – Issue 5 (Fall 2018)
- Coalition Quarterly – Issue 6 (Winter 2019)
- Coalition Quarterly – Issue 7 (Spring 2019)
- Coalition Quarterly – Issue 8 (Summer 2019)
- Coalition Quarterly – Issue 9 (Fall 2019)
- Coalition Quarterly – Issue 10 (Winter 2020)
- Coalition Quarterly – Issue 11 (Spring 2020)
- Coalition Quarterly – Issue 12 (Summer 2020)
- Coalition Quarterly – Issue 13 (Fall 2020)
- Coalition Quarterly – Issue 14 (Winter 2021)
- Coalition Quarterly – Issue 15 (Spring 2021)
- DNSI
- Coalition Quarterly – Issue 16 (Summer 2021)
- Coalition Quarterly – Issue 17 (Fall 2021)
- Coalition Quarterly – Issue 18 (Winter 2022)
- Coalition Quarterly – Issue 19 (Spring2022)
- Coalition Quarterly – Issue 20 (Summer 2022)
- Coalition Quarterly – Special Double Issue – Issue 21 & Issue 22 (Fall 2022 & Winter 2023)
- Fall 2020 Newsletter
- Summer 2020 Newsletter
- Winter 2021 Newsletter
- Three Bays Preservation Newsletter
- Coalition Quarterly
- What we do at BCWC
- Welcome to the Living Laboratory: Come Learn with Us
- National Water Quality Month: How You Can Make A Difference
- Nutrient Overload 101
- Algal Blooms
- Piping Plover (Charadrius melodus)
- All About the Birds
- Environmentalists Buy Surplus Oysters to Boost Shellfish Industry and Restore Imperiled Waterways
- Who are those people in those waders?
- Bioreactor Cranberry Bogs
- Are You an Invasive Crab?
- The Living Fossil of the Ocean
- Sea Sponges, Anemones, Tunicates Galore!
- Eelgrass: Where Did it All Go?
- What’s Your Preference? Soft-shelled or Hard-shelled Clams?
- A Dune’s Duties
- Diamondback Terrapins: A Girl’s Best Turtle
- White Sock Challenge
- Sea Level Rise
- DNSI
- News
- Three Bays Preservation: We are one Cape (7/1/16)
- Told You So (8/22/16)
- Three Bays Preservation: Wastewater is everybody’s problem (9/30/16)
- Clean Water is a Fundamental Right of Citizenship (11/11/16)
- The Origins of Barnstable’s Drinking Water (1/13/17)
- Coloring in between the lines of a blue economy (2/22/17)
- Cape’s nitrogen crisis is treatable (8/3/17)
- Three Bays Preservation Gets New Name, Updated Mission (6/26/17)
- Press Release: Wonder of the Water Lecture Series (6/24/17)
- Barnstable Clean Water Coalition renews call to action at Osterville open house (6/28/17)
- Barnstable Clean Water Coalition Tackles Water Quality Crisis (6/29/17)
- Three Bays Preservation renamed, focus expanded (8/2/17)
- Barnstable Clean Water Coalition: Cape’s nitrogen crisis is treatable (8/3/17)
- APCC offers plan to reduce Three Bays nitrogen (9/1/17)
- Barnstable Town Council adopts draft of long-term wastewater treatment plan (9/11/17)
- Restoring a mill pond (10/8/17)
- Opposition to Sampsons project misplaced (10/25/17)
- New book seeks to help Three Bays Watershed (1/25/18)
- Landscaping with native plants can help clean Cape waters (2/8/18)
- River Herring are Running in Local Rivers (4/20/18)
- Watershed Update Presents Problems While Offering Hope (7/6/18)
- 50,000 oysters to grow in Hyannis tank (7/31/18)
- Barnstable moves ahead with Cotuit Cut dredging (9/13/18)
- Brew, oysters take center stage at Cape Cod Beer’s fest (10/17/18)
- BARNSTABLE TOWN NOTES (10/19/18)
- Barnstable Board of Health, Town Council leadership at odds over sewering, development (10/25/18)
- Developing a roadmap: Barnstable, EPA officials fast-track nitrogen removal efforts (10/29/18)
- APCC invests $1.2M in Three Bays stormwater management (10/29/18)
- Dredging of entrance to Cotuit Bay begins (11/5/18)
- Zoning for the future: ‘We’re going to get a lot louder,’ says Barnstable Clean Water Assoc. (11/15/18)
- Barnstable Board of Health to consider lifting nutrient restrictions (11/21/18)
- ‘The Cape is not a one-size-fits-all approach to planning’ (11/22/18)
- Barnstable Health Board delays action to modify water-quality regs (11/27/18)
- Health Board halts move to lift sewering cap (11/29/18)
- Easing of Barnstable’s nitrogen rules could prompt lawsuit (1/2/19)
- Barnstable: Wastewater plan in the works (1/4/19)
- Fla. red tide episode kills record number of sea turtles (1/17/19)
- Board of Health Resume Discussion (1/22/19)
- Are scalloping’s days numbered on Nantucket? (4/7/19)
- Watershed Action Alliance event addresses water issues (4/22/19)
- Cape scientists, inmates explore life in the dead zones (5/4/19)
- Santuit Pond Sounds Alarm On Freshwater (6/20/19)
- Toxic blooms prompt Cape pond advisories (6/24/19)
- Barnstable Board of Health says no to amended regulations (6/26/19)
- The Cape Has 1,000 Freshwater Ponds. How Many Are Toxic? (6/28/19)
- Red tide raises threat of shellfishing closures (7/1/19)
- ‘Green’ stormwater systems helping clean coastal waters (7/25/19)
- Summertime, And Toxic Algae Is Blooming: Here’s What You Need To Know (7/26/19)
- New Hyannis building will better treat water for PFAS (8/6/19)
- $12 million water plant build gets underway in Hyannis (8/7/19)
- Pitch made for Upper Cape wastewater facility (8/7/19)
- Researchers seek to head off blooming problem in Cape ponds (8/12/19)
- Mashpee weighs wastewater management options (8/14/19)
- BARNSTABLE AT WORK (8/26/19)
- Federal grant to fund PFAS testing in Hyannis (9/25/19)
- At the Edge of a warming world (9/26/19)
- Sewer system could add value to a neighborhood (9/26/19)
- Cape Cod must move faster to clean its ground water and coastal embayments (10/9/19)
- APCC: Herring counts show mixed results (12/5/19)
- 95 Environmental Rules Being Rolled Back Under Trump (12/21/19)
- Falmouth Water Quality Group Examines Alternative Septic Systems (12/24/19)
- County Connections – Featured Program: Massachusetts Alternative Septic System Test Center (1/16/20)
- Cape seen as protected from weakening of Clean Water Act (1/24/20)
- Troubled waters: Scientists test for links between lower herring counts & cyanobacteria (1/31/20)
- Striking a balance (2/7/20)
- Relocate Cape Cod Hospital, halt risky expansion (3/9/20)
- Eastham, Orleans Shellfishing Areas Closed due to Red Tide Toxin (3/20/20)
- Lawsuit seeks major steps to stem septic pollution
- The cleaning power of oysters
- My View: Peers and Piers
- My View: Time for Title 6
- My View: NIMBYism and Wastewater
- Barnstable Clean Water Coalition Tackles Water Quality Crisis
- Hard times afflict Massachusetts’ iconic cranberry bogs, as economic and environmental changes reshape the industry
- Exploring Solutions to Excess Nutrients: Restoring Cape Cod’s Waters
- Pilot project uses bioreactor to filter nitrogen from Barnstable waters (9/4/20)
- Lawsuit could disrupt real estate market in 2 Cape Cod towns (9/17/20)
- Barnstable High School launches $1.2M environmental science & technology lab (12/23/20)
- ‘Looks Like Something’s Guts Spilled All Over The Beach’ (1/22/21)
- CLF sues Barnstable over pollution in Lewis Bay (2/17/21)
- Rep. Keating Sees Legislative Opportunities For Cape Water Quality Goals
- Scientists find microplastics embedded in New Bedford and Cape Cod salt marshes (6/29/21)
- Barnstable Warns of Fertilizer Threat to Ecosystem (7/19/21)
- ‘It’s totally gone’: Mashpee’s water quality at an all-time low, report finds (7/29/21)
- Improving water quality in ponds starting to gain momentum says panel at regional summit (8/25/21)
- Conservation Law Foundation sues Barnstable, Masphee and state over wastewater cleanup (6/25/21)
- Cape ponds test positive for toxic bacteria (5/30/21)
- Madaket Marine using oysters to combat algae blooms (7/22/21)
- Barnstable Clean Water Coalition To Break Ground On Innovative Septic System Project (10/5/21)
- Group pilots alternative wastewater treatment system in Marstons Mills (10/11/21)
- PFAS advisory: State asks people to limit or not eat fish caught at 5 Cape Cod ponds (11/3/21)
- A ‘powerful tool’: New septic system technology aimed at helping to clean up Cape waters (11/6/2021)
- Mashpee Has No Good News About Its Struggles With Degraded Waters (11/12/21)
- Interview with Sunday Journal
- New Septic Systems Promising In Protecting Upper Cape Water Systems (3/18/22)
- Rising temperatures a boon for harmful bacteria in Cape Cod’s fresh and salt water (2/2/22)
- Podcast Urges Water Stewardship On Cape Cod (4/8/22)
- First year of Wellfleet oyster project deemed success, as 25,000 pounds of shells recycled (9/30/21)
- Backed-up pipes, stinky yards: Climate change is wrecking septic tanks (4/12/22)
- BCWC on the Front Page of today’s Boston Globe
- Marstons Mills site of 1st national water quality study of its kind (5/18/22)
- Marstons Mills homes test nitrogen-removing septic wastewater system (6/3/22)
- New plans emerge to save many Cape Cod ponds, lakes threatened by pollution (6/23/22)
- BCWC Featured on Chronicle
- BCWC lands $750,000 EPA pilot grant for bog restoration (10/14/21)
- Nitrogen Reclassification Will Put Emphasis On Innovative Systems (8/31/22)
- Thousands of Cape Cod homeowners may need to replace septic systems under new state regulations (11/28/22)
- BCWC Featured on WXTK (12/11/22)
- Cape Cod’S Evolving Wastewater Crisis: Facing Reality and Finding Solutions (2/14/23)
- Discover Barnstable Podcast on Forever Chemicals
- Flushing toilets on Cape Cod: Report shows waters increasingly polluted (2/22/23)
- PFAS are everywhere. Removing them from the Cape’s water supply will not be easy. (3/2/23)
- Ban bill aims to slow spread of PFAS damage (3/4/23)
- Proposed septic tax credit would save Cape and Islands residents thousands. Here’s how. (3/7/23)
- Barnstable Clean Water Coalition needs help counting fish. Why, and what you can do. (3/7/23)
- For the first time, EPA moves to limit ‘forever chemicals’ in drinking water (3/14/23)
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- Three Bays Preservation: We are one Cape (7/1/16)
- Told You So (8/22/16)
- Three Bays Preservation: Wastewater is everybody’s problem (9/30/16)
- Clean Water is a Fundamental Right of Citizenship (11/11/16)
- The Origins of Barnstable’s Drinking Water (1/13/17)
- Coloring in between the lines of a blue economy (2/22/17)
- Cape’s nitrogen crisis is treatable (8/3/17)
- Three Bays Preservation Gets New Name, Updated Mission (6/26/17)
- Press Release: Wonder of the Water Lecture Series (6/24/17)
- Barnstable Clean Water Coalition renews call to action at Osterville open house (6/28/17)
- Barnstable Clean Water Coalition Tackles Water Quality Crisis (6/29/17)
- Three Bays Preservation renamed, focus expanded (8/2/17)
- Barnstable Clean Water Coalition: Cape’s nitrogen crisis is treatable (8/3/17)
- APCC offers plan to reduce Three Bays nitrogen (9/1/17)
- Barnstable Town Council adopts draft of long-term wastewater treatment plan (9/11/17)
- Restoring a mill pond (10/8/17)
- Opposition to Sampsons project misplaced (10/25/17)
- New book seeks to help Three Bays Watershed (1/25/18)
- Landscaping with native plants can help clean Cape waters (2/8/18)
- River Herring are Running in Local Rivers (4/20/18)
- Watershed Update Presents Problems While Offering Hope (7/6/18)
- 50,000 oysters to grow in Hyannis tank (7/31/18)
- Barnstable moves ahead with Cotuit Cut dredging (9/13/18)
- Brew, oysters take center stage at Cape Cod Beer’s fest (10/17/18)
- BARNSTABLE TOWN NOTES (10/19/18)
- Barnstable Board of Health, Town Council leadership at odds over sewering, development (10/25/18)
- Developing a roadmap: Barnstable, EPA officials fast-track nitrogen removal efforts (10/29/18)
- APCC invests $1.2M in Three Bays stormwater management (10/29/18)
- Dredging of entrance to Cotuit Bay begins (11/5/18)
- Zoning for the future: ‘We’re going to get a lot louder,’ says Barnstable Clean Water Assoc. (11/15/18)
- Barnstable Board of Health to consider lifting nutrient restrictions (11/21/18)
- ‘The Cape is not a one-size-fits-all approach to planning’ (11/22/18)
- Barnstable Health Board delays action to modify water-quality regs (11/27/18)
- Health Board halts move to lift sewering cap (11/29/18)
- Easing of Barnstable’s nitrogen rules could prompt lawsuit (1/2/19)
- Barnstable: Wastewater plan in the works (1/4/19)
- Fla. red tide episode kills record number of sea turtles (1/17/19)
- Board of Health Resume Discussion (1/22/19)
- Are scalloping’s days numbered on Nantucket? (4/7/19)
- Watershed Action Alliance event addresses water issues (4/22/19)
- Cape scientists, inmates explore life in the dead zones (5/4/19)
- Santuit Pond Sounds Alarm On Freshwater (6/20/19)
- Toxic blooms prompt Cape pond advisories (6/24/19)
- Barnstable Board of Health says no to amended regulations (6/26/19)
- The Cape Has 1,000 Freshwater Ponds. How Many Are Toxic? (6/28/19)
- Red tide raises threat of shellfishing closures (7/1/19)
- ‘Green’ stormwater systems helping clean coastal waters (7/25/19)
- Summertime, And Toxic Algae Is Blooming: Here’s What You Need To Know (7/26/19)
- New Hyannis building will better treat water for PFAS (8/6/19)
- $12 million water plant build gets underway in Hyannis (8/7/19)
- Pitch made for Upper Cape wastewater facility (8/7/19)
- Researchers seek to head off blooming problem in Cape ponds (8/12/19)
- Mashpee weighs wastewater management options (8/14/19)
- BARNSTABLE AT WORK (8/26/19)
- Federal grant to fund PFAS testing in Hyannis (9/25/19)
- At the Edge of a warming world (9/26/19)
- Sewer system could add value to a neighborhood (9/26/19)
- Cape Cod must move faster to clean its ground water and coastal embayments (10/9/19)
- APCC: Herring counts show mixed results (12/5/19)
- 95 Environmental Rules Being Rolled Back Under Trump (12/21/19)
- Falmouth Water Quality Group Examines Alternative Septic Systems (12/24/19)
- County Connections – Featured Program: Massachusetts Alternative Septic System Test Center (1/16/20)
- Cape seen as protected from weakening of Clean Water Act (1/24/20)
- Troubled waters: Scientists test for links between lower herring counts & cyanobacteria (1/31/20)
- Striking a balance (2/7/20)
- Relocate Cape Cod Hospital, halt risky expansion (3/9/20)
- Eastham, Orleans Shellfishing Areas Closed due to Red Tide Toxin (3/20/20)
- Lawsuit seeks major steps to stem septic pollution
- The cleaning power of oysters
- My View: Peers and Piers
- My View: Time for Title 6
- My View: NIMBYism and Wastewater
- Barnstable Clean Water Coalition Tackles Water Quality Crisis
- Hard times afflict Massachusetts’ iconic cranberry bogs, as economic and environmental changes reshape the industry
- Exploring Solutions to Excess Nutrients: Restoring Cape Cod’s Waters
- Pilot project uses bioreactor to filter nitrogen from Barnstable waters (9/4/20)
- Lawsuit could disrupt real estate market in 2 Cape Cod towns (9/17/20)
- Barnstable High School launches $1.2M environmental science & technology lab (12/23/20)
- ‘Looks Like Something’s Guts Spilled All Over The Beach’ (1/22/21)
- CLF sues Barnstable over pollution in Lewis Bay (2/17/21)
- Rep. Keating Sees Legislative Opportunities For Cape Water Quality Goals
- Scientists find microplastics embedded in New Bedford and Cape Cod salt marshes (6/29/21)
- Barnstable Warns of Fertilizer Threat to Ecosystem (7/19/21)
- ‘It’s totally gone’: Mashpee’s water quality at an all-time low, report finds (7/29/21)
- Improving water quality in ponds starting to gain momentum says panel at regional summit (8/25/21)
- Conservation Law Foundation sues Barnstable, Masphee and state over wastewater cleanup (6/25/21)
- Cape ponds test positive for toxic bacteria (5/30/21)
- Madaket Marine using oysters to combat algae blooms (7/22/21)
- Barnstable Clean Water Coalition To Break Ground On Innovative Septic System Project (10/5/21)
- Group pilots alternative wastewater treatment system in Marstons Mills (10/11/21)
- PFAS advisory: State asks people to limit or not eat fish caught at 5 Cape Cod ponds (11/3/21)
- A ‘powerful tool’: New septic system technology aimed at helping to clean up Cape waters (11/6/2021)
- Mashpee Has No Good News About Its Struggles With Degraded Waters (11/12/21)
- Interview with Sunday Journal
- New Septic Systems Promising In Protecting Upper Cape Water Systems (3/18/22)
- Rising temperatures a boon for harmful bacteria in Cape Cod’s fresh and salt water (2/2/22)
- Podcast Urges Water Stewardship On Cape Cod (4/8/22)
- First year of Wellfleet oyster project deemed success, as 25,000 pounds of shells recycled (9/30/21)
- Backed-up pipes, stinky yards: Climate change is wrecking septic tanks (4/12/22)
- BCWC on the Front Page of today’s Boston Globe
- Marstons Mills site of 1st national water quality study of its kind (5/18/22)
- Marstons Mills homes test nitrogen-removing septic wastewater system (6/3/22)
- New plans emerge to save many Cape Cod ponds, lakes threatened by pollution (6/23/22)
- BCWC Featured on Chronicle
- BCWC lands $750,000 EPA pilot grant for bog restoration (10/14/21)
- Nitrogen Reclassification Will Put Emphasis On Innovative Systems (8/31/22)
- Thousands of Cape Cod homeowners may need to replace septic systems under new state regulations (11/28/22)
- BCWC Featured on WXTK (12/11/22)
- Cape Cod’S Evolving Wastewater Crisis: Facing Reality and Finding Solutions (2/14/23)
- Discover Barnstable Podcast on Forever Chemicals
- Flushing toilets on Cape Cod: Report shows waters increasingly polluted (2/22/23)
- PFAS are everywhere. Removing them from the Cape’s water supply will not be easy. (3/2/23)
- Ban bill aims to slow spread of PFAS damage (3/4/23)
- Proposed septic tax credit would save Cape and Islands residents thousands. Here’s how. (3/7/23)
- Barnstable Clean Water Coalition needs help counting fish. Why, and what you can do. (3/7/23)
- For the first time, EPA moves to limit ‘forever chemicals’ in drinking water (3/14/23)


