Marstons Mills site of 1st national water quality study of its kind (5/18/22)
Marstons Mills site of 1st national water quality study of its kind CAI | By Patrick Flanary Published May 18, 2022 at 1:00 PM EDT The Barnstable Clean Water Coalition is working to model what alternative septic could mean broadly for Cape Cod homeowners. A Marstons Mills neighborhood is the site of the country’s first study […]
Design with Nature on Cape Cod and the Islands
Cape Cod and the islands of Martha’s Vineyard and Nantucket are special places known for their distinctive flora, including pine-oak forests, sandplain grasslands, and sand dunes peppered with bearberry shrubs. Unfortunately, this unique sense of place is under threat. In recent decades, contemporary landscape practices have come to depend on environmentally stressful fertilizers and irrigation […]
Backed-up pipes, stinky yards: Climate change is wrecking septic tanks (4/12/22)
Backed-up pipes, stinky yards: Climate change is wrecking septic tanks By: Jim Morrison April 12, 2022 at 7:00 a.m. EDT The Washington Post Lewis Lawrence likes to refer to the coastal middle peninsula of Virginia as suffering from a “soggy socks” problem. Flooding is so persistent that people often can’t walk around without getting their […]
Podcast Urges Water Stewardship On Cape Cod (4/8/22)
Podcast Urges Water Stewardship On Cape Cod The Enterprise Bourne April 8, 2022 The Cape Cod Groundwater Guardians, a small group of professionals serving with Barnstable County, has created an educational podcast called “One Drop Leads to Another,” which can be found on several streaming services, as a platform to discuss current public concerns about […]
New Septic Systems Promising In Protecting Upper Cape Water Systems (3/18/22)
The Enterprise Mashpee By: Sam Drysdale Mar 18, 2022 New Septic Systems Promising In Protecting Upper Cape Water Systems Outdated and environmentally unfriendly septic systems and cesspools are the norm on Cape Cod. Although most people would rather avoid the topic of where their waste goes after it has been flushed, the Massachusetts Alternative Septic […]
Sea Level Rise
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Coalition Quarterly – Issue 18 Winter 2022
Coalition Quarterly Issue 18 Winter 2022 & EPA Bulletin – Winter 2022 Click on image (or buttons) below to read more >> Single Page Double Page (FlipBook) BCWC_Newsletter_Winter2022-Final Single Page Double Page (FlipBook) EPA-Bulletin-3
PFAS in lobsters? Another sign these harmful compounds are everywhere, researchers say (2/4/22)
PFAS in lobsters? Another sign these harmful compounds are everywhere, researchers say Doug Fraser Cape Cod Times Feb 4, 2022 Researchers recently analyzed three lobsters caught in Massachusetts waters and found what they call high levels of PFAS. They criticized the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for moving too slowly on studying and regulating these “forever chemicals.“ […]
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 […]
Show your Support for Clean Water by completing this ARPA Survey!
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 […]