Coalition Quarterly – Issue 17 Fall 2021
Coalition Quarterly Issue 17 Fall 2021 Click on image (or buttons) below to read more >> Single Page Double Page (FlipBook) Fall-IA-2021-Newsletter-Final
Coalition Quarterly – Issue 16 Summer 2021
Coalition Quarterly Issue 16 Summer 2021 Click on image (or buttons) below to read more >> Single Page Double Page (FlipBook) Summer-2021-Newsletter-Final
Interview with Sunday Journal
Zenas Crocker, BCWC Executive Director, did an interview with the Sunday Journal that aired on Sunday November 28th. Check out the interview by clicking here. capecodcom · Sunday Journal – Barnstable Clean Water Coalition Tackling Cape’s Worsening Water Quality
Mashpee Has No Good News About Its Struggles With Degraded Waters (11/12/21)
Mashpee Has No Good News About Its Struggles With Degraded Waters Reduced Biodiversity, Low Oxygen And Deformed Fish Documented By RYAN SPENCER Nov. 12, 2021 Water quality in Mashpee’s freshwater ponds is declining even as the town has been unable to stave off water quality decline in coastal embayments, which have been the focus of […]
A ‘powerful tool’: New septic system technology aimed at helping to clean up Cape waters (11/6/2021)
A ‘powerful tool’: New septic system technology aimed at helping to clean up Cape waters Rachael Devaney Cape Cod Times Nov. 6, 2021 As Jennifer Loughran led a tour of Barnstable Clean Water Coalition’s Shubael Pond Project, she called a newly installed NitROE wastewater treatment septic system a “living laboratory.” “Maybe watching a septic installation […]
PFAS advisory: State asks people to limit or not eat fish caught at 5 Cape Cod ponds (11/3/21)
PFAS advisory: State asks people to limit or not eat fish caught at 5 Cape Cod ponds Cynthia McCormick Cape Cod Times Nov. 3, 2021 In their first advisory about consumption of freshwater fish contaminated with PFAS, Massachusetts public health officials Tuesday advised people to limit or exclude fish from five Upper Cape ponds from […]
BCWC lands $750,000 EPA pilot grant for bog restoration (10/14/21)
BCWC lands $750,000 EPA pilot grant for bog restoration October 14, 2021 The Barnstable Patriot $150,000 a year for five years to help restore 56 acres of cranberry bogs, clean up Three Bays OSTERVILLE — Barnstable Clean Water Coalition (BCWC) was awarded a five-year, $750,000 Southeast New England Program (SNEP) Pilot Watershed grant from the […]
Group pilots alternative wastewater treatment system in Marstons Mills (10/11/21)
Group pilots alternative wastewater treatment system in Marstons Mills How to clean water in those hard-to-reach places on the Cape Bronwen Howells Walsh The Barnstable Patriot Oct 11, 2021 MARSTONS MILLS — Before Casey Chatelain left the Cape for graduate school, she interned with the Barnstable Clean Water Coalition and volunteered on a town committee […]
Barnstable Clean Water Coalition To Break Ground On Innovative Septic System Project (10/5/21)
Barnstable Clean Water Coalition To Break Ground On Innovative Septic System Project Cape & Plymouth Business Media By Carol Dumas Oct 5, 2021 The Barnstable Clean Water Coalition (BCWC) will break ground on its Shubael Pond Innovative/Alternative (I/A) Septic System project located in Osterville on Oct. 5. A total of 15 KleanTu NitROE systems, an […]
First year of Wellfleet oyster project deemed success, as 25,000 pounds of shells recycled (9/30/21)
First year of Wellfleet oyster project deemed success, as 25,000 pounds of shells recycled Kathi Scrizzi Driscoll Cape Cod Times Sept. 30, 2021 WELLFLEET — The first year of turning what would have been oyster trash into future coastal reefs was deemed a huge success by organizers and participants. The inaugural season of the Massachusetts Oyster […]