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• Category: Living Laboratory Cape Cod
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    • Pot Calling the Kettle….Pond?
    • PFAS: What Are They and Why Do We Care?
    • Neighbors Take Action to Save Their Ponds
  • Category: Newsletter
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      • Coalition Quarterly – Issue 15 (Spring 2021)
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      • Category: Fall 2020 Newsletter
        • Exploring Solutions to Excess Nutrients: Restoring Cape Cod’s Waters
        • Weather Station at Fair Acres Country Day School — Making Science Fun
        • Note from the Helm
      • Category: Summer 2020 Newsletter
        • Volunteer Spotlight
        • Why We Support BCWC
        • Summer Staff on the Move
        • Marstons Mills Cranberry Bog Restoration
        • Progress With Alternative Septic Systems
        • Summer Water Sampling
        • A Note from the Helm
      • Category: Winter 2021 Newsletter
        • Dead Neck Sampson’s Island Revisited By Local Author
        • AmeriCorps Spotlight
        • Sands of Time
        • The Herring Are Coming and We Are Ready (COVID-Style)!
        • That’s a Wrap!
        • A Note from The Helm
    • Category: Three Bays Preservation Newsletter
      • Three Bays Preservation – Vol. 56 (Fall 2016)
      • Three Bays Preservation – Vol. 55 (Summer 2016)
      • Three Bays Preservation – Vol. 54 (Winter 2016)
      • Three Bays Preservation – Vol. 53 (Summer 2015)
      • Three Bays Preservation – Vol. 52 (Spring 2015)
  • Category: What we do at BCWC
    • Sea Level Rise
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    • 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
    • Category: DNSI
      • The Ides of Summer
      • What a June day
      • The Adventure Continues…
      • An Island Adventure
      • Island Time with Ranger Rick
      • Willets: Determined to Thrive
      • Plovers & Terns
• Category: News
  • 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)