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Category: What We Do At BCWC

Cape Cod Academy Water Days

For the past three years, Barnstable Clean Water Coalition has partnered with Cape Cod Academy to educate students on impacts of excess nitrogen and stormwater runoff in local waters. Four green technology projects were designed and developed to demonstrate potential solutions to degraded water quality in ponds and bays. Students visited several project sites including […]

Discover Pirate’s Cove

Explore the natural treasure troves of Pirate’s Cove on Sampson’s Island. All ages are welcome to join our Summer Rangers for an hour of fun and interactive activities along the shoreline. Learn about the intertidal zone and its inhabitants from horseshoe crabs to shorebirds, and how we as citizen scientists can help protect our local […]

Bayside Explorers

Bayside Explorers is a hands-on, marine discovery program for families that incorporates exploratory field experiences with natural history lessons on the local marine environment. This educational outreach program allows participants to get their hands and feet wet using seine nets, minnow traps, and plankton tows to collect marine organisms in East Bay off Dowses Beach […]

Cotuit Rain Garden

Innovative green infrastructure sits unobtrusively within the parking lot of the Cotuit Town Dock at Oyster Place Road in Cotuit, just mere feet from Cotuit Bay. A long rain garden, otherwise known as bio-retention, was installed along the north side of the parking lot there in April 2016. A rain garden is an alternative to […]

Three Bays Preservation – Vol. 54 (Winter 2016)

Mike Egan – A Vision for Three Bays Preservation Meet Zenas Crocker Mill Pond Improvement Update Dead Neck/Sampson’s Island 2015 Field Summary Be a Volunteer Herring Counter In Memoriam: George R. Hampson Upcoming Events Click here to read Newsletter