Rising temperatures a boon for harmful bacteria in Cape Cod’s fresh and salt water (2/2/22)
Rising temperatures a boon for harmful bacteria in Cape Cod’s fresh and salt water Cape Cod Times Doug Fraser Feb. 2, 2022 Here’s the difference between red tide and blue-green algae. Wochit WOODS HOLE — The world depends on water to drink, to irrigate crops, for the seafood that feeds millions. As the earth’s population continues […]
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COVID brought our community many problems, but it also led to Federal Government funding at the State level that has yielded the Cape Cod region (Barnstable County) with something of a financial windfall. Last March, President Biden approved the $1.9 trillion infrastructure bill called the American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) of 2021. Massachusetts received $8.7 billion and of […]
‘Things are worse’: Cape Cod water quality is declining, says environmental group’s report (1/11/22)
‘Things are worse’: Cape Cod water quality is declining, says environmental group’s report Cape Cod Times Doug Fraser Jan 11, 2022 The Association to Preserve Cape Cod has released its third annual State of the Waters report, which evaluates water quality in the Cape’s ponds and lakes, bays and drinking water supplies. What it found is no surprise: continued degradation of […]
Cape Cod’s water quality is getting worse, report finds (1/3/22)
Cape Cod’s water quality is getting worse, report finds wbur January 3, 2022 Walter Wuthmann A fisherman casts his fishing line out into the Cape Cod Canal in Sandwich. (Jesse Costa/WBUR) A new report released Monday finds that surface water quality on Cape Cod has degraded for the third year in a row. The Association to […]
Interview with Sunday Journal
Zenas Crocker, BCWC Executive Director, did an interview with the Sunday Journal that aired on Sunday November 28th. Check out the interview by clicking here. capecodcom · Sunday Journal – Barnstable Clean Water Coalition Tackling Cape’s Worsening Water Quality
Mashpee Has No Good News About Its Struggles With Degraded Waters (11/12/21)
Mashpee Has No Good News About Its Struggles With Degraded Waters Reduced Biodiversity, Low Oxygen And Deformed Fish Documented By RYAN SPENCER Nov. 12, 2021 Water quality in Mashpee’s freshwater ponds is declining even as the town has been unable to stave off water quality decline in coastal embayments, which have been the focus of […]
A ‘powerful tool’: New septic system technology aimed at helping to clean up Cape waters (11/6/2021)
A ‘powerful tool’: New septic system technology aimed at helping to clean up Cape waters Rachael Devaney Cape Cod Times Nov. 6, 2021 As Jennifer Loughran led a tour of Barnstable Clean Water Coalition’s Shubael Pond Project, she called a newly installed NitROE wastewater treatment septic system a “living laboratory.” “Maybe watching a septic installation […]
PFAS advisory: State asks people to limit or not eat fish caught at 5 Cape Cod ponds (11/3/21)
PFAS advisory: State asks people to limit or not eat fish caught at 5 Cape Cod ponds Cynthia McCormick Cape Cod Times Nov. 3, 2021 In their first advisory about consumption of freshwater fish contaminated with PFAS, Massachusetts public health officials Tuesday advised people to limit or exclude fish from five Upper Cape ponds from […]
BCWC lands $750,000 EPA pilot grant for bog restoration (10/14/21)
BCWC lands $750,000 EPA pilot grant for bog restoration October 14, 2021 The Barnstable Patriot $150,000 a year for five years to help restore 56 acres of cranberry bogs, clean up Three Bays OSTERVILLE — Barnstable Clean Water Coalition (BCWC) was awarded a five-year, $750,000 Southeast New England Program (SNEP) Pilot Watershed grant from the […]
Group pilots alternative wastewater treatment system in Marstons Mills (10/11/21)
Group pilots alternative wastewater treatment system in Marstons Mills How to clean water in those hard-to-reach places on the Cape Bronwen Howells Walsh The Barnstable Patriot Oct 11, 2021 MARSTONS MILLS — Before Casey Chatelain left the Cape for graduate school, she interned with the Barnstable Clean Water Coalition and volunteered on a town committee […]