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A Guide to CLEAN WATER LIVING on Cape Cod

Check out our A Guide to CLEAN WATER LIVING on Cape Cod This guide features information about our water, the problems we face and tips to conserve water. Stop by our office for a physical copy.

BCWC Featured on Chronicle

Chronicle aired a story on July 20, 2022 about Massachusetts Oyster Project and their work to rebuild the commonwealth’s oyster population. BCWC’s upweller was featured in this segment.

Cape Cod Community College To Install Eco-Toilet After Falmouth Considers Eco-Toilets (6/24/22)

Cape Cod Community College To Install Eco-Toilet After Falmouth Considers Eco-Toilets The Falmouth Enterprise June 24, 2022 Gilda Geist Cape Cod Community College is installing and pilot testing a closed-loop treatment system toilet. This toilet will be the first commercial application of its kind in North America and provides an environmentally-friendly alternative to other waste […]

Experimental Solutions to Reduce Nitrogen Pollution on Cape Cod (6/9/22)

Experimental Solutions to Reduce Nitrogen Pollution on Cape Cod The Nature Conservancy June 9, 2022 Too much nitrogen in our waterways threatens our drinking water, economy, recreation and human health. We are working with nature to change that. The New England way of life depends on our water quality. Everything from our drinking water and […]

Marstons Mills homes test nitrogen-removing septic wastewater system (6/3/22)

Marstons Mills homes test nitrogen-removing septic wastewater system Rich Eldred wickedlocal.com Cape Cod Times June 3, 2022 MARSTONS MILLS — Two septic tanks may be better than one, at least when the second tank can do what the first won’t. The Sandy Shores neighborhood along the shore of Shubael Pond will help test for the next three years a […]

BCWC on the Front Page of today’s Boston Globe

BCWC is working to reduce nitrogen by tackling it at its source, septic systems. We support municipal sewer expansion, however as the CWMP shows, it will take many years and some areas in the town of Barnstable are not expected to get sewer. We can’t wait to work on a solution. We have a pilot […]

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 […]