Watershed Update Presents Problems While Offering Hope (7/6/18)
The Barnstable Patriot By Marina Davalos Jul 6, 2018 Watershed update presents problems while offering hope [Photo Credit: BCWC] [Photo Credit: Board Member of BCWC] [Photo Credit: BCWC] On June 29 Osterville native Zenas “Zee” Crocker told an audience of about 175 of […]
River Herring are Running in Local Rivers (4/20/18)
NOAA Fisheries Apr 20, 2018 River Herring are Running in Local Rivers River herring gets over a fish ladder at Mill Pond in Marstons Mills on Cape Cod. It’s that time of year. River herring are returning to local rivers and streams to spawn. For Northeast Fisheries Science Center researcher Ruth Haas-Castro, counts began April 1 […]
Landscaping with native plants can help clean Cape waters (2/8/18)
The Barnstable Patriot By Bronwen Howells Walsh Posted Feb 8, 2018 at 10:15 AM Updated Feb 14, 2018 at 1:21 PM Landscaping with native plants can help clean Cape waters [Photo Credit: BCWC] Part two in a three-part series. The Barnstable Clean Water Coalition is taking proven nitrogen mitigation technologies out of the lab and into Marstons Mills Watershed. “By implementing several technologies […]
New book seeks to help Three Bays Watershed (1/25/18)
The Barnstable Patriot By Bronwen Howells Walsh Posted Jan 25, 2018 at 10:11 AM Updated Jan 25, 2018 at 10:11 AM New book seeks to help Three Bays Watershed [Photo Credit: BCWC] Part one in a three-part series. University of Massachusetts-Amherst Professor Jack Ahern and 10 graduate students — with financial support from the Barnstable Clean Water Coalition — have published a […]
Opposition to Sampsons project misplaced (10/25/17)
Cape Cod Times By Thomas K. Burgess Oct 25, 2017 Opposition to Sampsons project misplaced The expertise of the Barnstable Clean Water Coalition and the Massachusetts Audubon Society is being called into question by a very small group of beachgoers who object to the removal of 400 feet of the western point of Sampsons Island. Their arguments […]
Restoring a mill pond (10/8/17)
Cape Cod Times October 8, 2017 Restoring a Mill Pond Zenas Crocker, executive director of the Barnstable Clean Water Coalition, says it’s time to shout “hair on fire” about the degrading quality of the Cape’s water resources — from its groundwater to fresh water ponds and salty estuaries. Formerly Three Bays Preservation Inc., the Barnstable […]
Barnstable Town Council adopts draft of long-term wastewater treatment plan (9/11/17)
The Barnstable Patriot September 11, 2017 Barnstable Town Council adopts draft of long-term wastewater treatment plan Lindsey Counsell’s work is done, and yet it’s just begun. Counsell retired in April after 20 years as executive director of Three Bays. He retired again Aug. 17 as chairman of the town’s Water Resources Advisory Committee, because the […]
APCC offers plan to reduce Three Bays nitrogen (9/1/17)
The Barnstable Patriot September 1, 2017 APCC offers plan to reduce Three Bays nitrogen Stormwater runoff and fertilizer account for more than 23 percent of the nitrogen polluting the Three Bays watershed, according to the first phase of a three-year study by the Association to Preserve Cape Cod, the Barnstable Clean Water Coalition and the […]
Barnstable Clean Water Coalition: Cape’s nitrogen crisis is treatable (8/3/17)
The Barnstable Patriot August 3, 2017 Barnstable Clean Water Coalition: Cape’s nitrogen crisis is treatable [Photo By: Bronwen Howells Walsh] Barnstable gets its drinking water from the same source that its septic systems are leaching into, and the nitrogen crisis facing Cape Cod is not sustainable. That’s what Michael Egan, president of the board […]
Cape’s nitrogen crisis is treatable (8/3/17)
Michael “Mike” Egan, president of the Board of Directors at Barnstable Clean Water Coalition, presented a well-received illustrated lecture on Barnstable’s nitrogen crisis at Osterville Village Library on Tuesday, August 1. Barnstable Clean Water Coalition: Cape’s nitrogen crisis is treatable The Barnstable Patriot August 3, 2017 Barnstable gets its drinking water from the same source […]