PFAS are everywhere. Removing them from the Cape’s water supply will not be easy. (3/2/23)
PFAS are everywhere. Removing them from the Cape’s water supply will not be easy. Cape Cod Times Beth Treffeisen March 2, 2023 BOURNE — Rose Forbes, 56, a pollution cleanup manager for the U.S. Air Force on Joint Base Cape Cod, slowly drove her compact SUV toward the entrance of the Otis Rotary in Bourne […]
Phosphorus Saved Our Way of Life—and Now Threatens to End It (2/27/23)
Phosphorus Saved Our Way of Life—and Now Threatens to End It February 27, 2023 Elizabeth Kolbert The New Yorker Fertilizers filled with the nutrient boosted our ability to feed the planet. Today, they’re creating vast and growing dead zones in our lakes and seas. In the fall of 1802, the German naturalist Alexander von Humboldt arrived in […]
Flushing toilets on Cape Cod: Report shows waters increasingly polluted (2/22/23)
Flushing toilets on Cape Cod: Report shows waters increasingly polluted Cape Cod Times By: Heather McCarron February 22, 2023 At one time, shellfishing was plentiful and diverse in Hen Cove Harbor on Buzzards Bay in Bourne. But that’s changed over time with an overall decline in water quality because of high concentrations of nutrients — mostly from septic systems […]
Private well owners stuck with costs to treat ‘forever chemicals’ (2/15/23)
Private well owners stuck with costs to treat ‘forever chemicals’February 15, 2023Barbara MoranWBUR Bill Wachur thought he was just being cautious when he decided to test his well water for PFAS. His home in Stow, Massachusetts, was nowhere near the town’s old fire station or the former mill — sites where the toxic chemicals had seeped […]
Cape Cod’S Evolving Wastewater Crisis: Facing Reality and Finding Solutions (2/14/23)
Town of Barnstable Community Health Newsletter Winter Edition
Discover Barnstable Podcast on Forever Chemicals
Discover Barnstable Podcast: Season 3 Episode 2 is on Forever Chemicals Click here to check out this episode.
A Toxic Stew on Cape Cod: Human Waste and Warming Water (1/1/23)
A Toxic Stew on Cape Cod: Human Waste and Warming Water Climate change is contributing to electric-green algae blooms. Massachusetts wants a cleanup of the antiquated septic systems feeding the mess, but it could cost billions. The New York Times Christopher Flavelle Jan 1 2023 Flavelle spent time on Cape Cod with residents, officials and […]
Coalition Quarterly – Special Double Issue – Issue 21, Fall 2022 & Issue 22, Winter 2023)
Coalition Quarterly Special Double Issue – Issue 21, Fall 2022 & Issue 22, Winter 2023 Click on image to read more >> Single Page Double Page (FlipBook) BCWC_Newsletter_Fall2022
BCWC Featured on WXTK (12/11/22)
BCWC’s Executive Director Zee Crocker was on the Pat Desmarais Show on WXTK talking about MassDEP’s proposed regulations and other topics related to wastewater management on Cape Cod. The Pat Desmarais Show – WXTK
Mass. residents express concerns about cost and feasibility of proposed septic regulations (12/5/22)
Mass. residents express concerns about cost and feasibility of proposed septic regulations wbur December 5, 2022 Barbara Moran Installing a nitrogen-filtering septic system. (Courtesy Barnstable Clean Water Coalition) Massachusetts residents are expressing concerns about the cost, feasibility and fairness of proposed environmental regulations that could require thousands of homeowners to replace or upgrade their septic systems […]