Federal grant to fund PFAS testing in Hyannis (9/25/19)
Cape Cod Times By Cynthia McCormick Posted Sep 25, 2019 at 6:33 PM Updated Sep 26, 2019 at 6:29 AM Federal grant to fund PFAS testing in Hyannis HYANNIS — The Silent Spring Institute has received a $1 million federal grant to test the impact of PFAS contamination in drinking water on adults and children in Hyannis and Ayer. About 1,000 adults and 300 children are […]
BARNSTABLE AT WORK (8/26/19)
Barnstable Patriot Posted Aug 26, 2019 at 11:43 AM BARNSTABLE AT WORK Individually we are one drop but together, we are an ocean. ~Ryunosuke Satoro As he does every month, photographer William F. Pomeroy turNS his lens to the working men and women of Barnstable. Follow the Patriot on Twitter — @BarnPat — and post a photo of yourself working with the […]
Mashpee weighs wastewater management options (8/14/19)
Cape Cod Times By Tanner Stening Posted Aug 14, 2019 at 9:11 PM Updated Aug 15, 2019 at 6:27 AM Mashpee weighs wastewater management options Town could pay millions for its own plan or join regional effort at base. MASHPEE — The Board of Selectmen is considering handing responsibility of the multimillion-dollar wastewater infrastructure project over to the Mashpee Water District and a yet-to-be-created sewer district. […]
Researchers seek to head off blooming problem in Cape ponds (8/12/19)
Cape Cod Times By Doug Fraser Posted Aug 12, 2019 at 9:29 PM Updated Aug 13, 2019 at 7:44 AM Researchers seek to head off blooming problem in Cape ponds BREWSTER — Charles “Chuck” Madansky was busy setting up what appeared to be a plastic tote on top of a pole driven into the sandy bottom of a small cove on Cliff Pond. “It’s a bit […]
Pitch made for Upper Cape wastewater facility (8/7/19)
Cape Cod Times By Tanner Stening Posted Aug 7, 2019 at 7:20 PM Updated Aug 8, 2019 at 6:26 AM Pitch made for Upper Cape wastewater facility Executive boards on the Upper Cape have gotten a peek at a state-funded regional study that proposes tackling wastewater management to the tune of $155 million through local capital projects. The towns participating in the study are Sandwich, Mashpee, […]
$12 million water plant build gets underway in Hyannis (8/7/19)
Barnstable Patriot By Bronwen Howells Walsh bwalsh@barnstablepatriot.com Posted Aug 7, 2019 at 9:03 AM Updated Aug 9, 2019 at 10:45 AM $12 million water plant build gets underway in Hyannis The Hyannis Water System and officials from Mass DEP held a both a ceremonial and a literal groundbreaking Wednesday for construction of a new $12 million water filtration building at the Maher Water Treatment Plant. […]
New Hyannis building will better treat water for PFAS (8/6/19)
Cape Cod Times By Geoff Spillane Posted Aug 6, 2019 at 8:22 PM Updated Aug 7, 2019 at 6:30 AM New Hyannis building will better treat water for PFAS Contaminants will be brought in line with new standards. HYANNIS — The Hyannis Water System has begun work on a new $12 million water filtration building at the Maher Water Treatment Plant off Old Yarmouth Road. The […]
Summertime, And Toxic Algae Is Blooming: Here’s What You Need To Know (7/26/19)
wbur.org July 26, 2019 Barbara Moran Summertime, And Toxic Algae Is Blooming: Here’s What You Need To Know The state Department of Public Health is warning people to keep themselves — and their pets — out of the lower Charles River Basin, from the BU Bridge to the Museum of Science, because of toxic algae. And it’s […]
‘Green’ stormwater systems helping clean coastal waters (7/25/19)
Barnstable Patriot Posted Jul 25, 2019 at 2:58 PM Updated Jul 27, 2019 at 8:16 AM ‘Green’ stormwater systems helping clean coastal waters The first two in a series of planned nature-based stormwater treatment systems were recently completed in the Three Bays watershed in Barnstable. Across Cape Cod, many coastal waters like the Three Bays are threatened and impaired by excess nutrients and bacteria coming […]
Red tide raises threat of shellfishing closures (7/1/19)
Cape Cod Times By Doug Fraser Posted Jul 1, 2019 at 8:15 PM Updated at 7:25 AM Red tide raises threat of shellfishing closures Red tide that has been creeping down the coastline for over a month is now poised slightly north of Cape Cod. The tide has caused shellfishing closures that now extend from […]