Barnstable Board of Health to consider lifting nutrient restrictions (11/21/18)
Cape Cod Times By Geoff Spillane Posted Nov 21, 2018 at 6:52 PM Updated Nov 22, 2018 at 6:33 AM Barnstable Board of Health to consider lifting nutrient restrictions HYANNIS — The Barnstable Board of Health has a full — and controversial — post-holiday agenda when it meets on Tuesday. The board will hold a public hearing on lifting interim regulations implemented 10 years ago to […]
Zoning for the future: ‘We’re going to get a lot louder,’ says Barnstable Clean Water Assoc. (11/15/18)
The Barnstable Patriot By Bronwen Howells Walsh Posted Nov 15, 2018 at 1:28 PM Updated Nov 16, 2018 at 12:45 PM Zoning for the future: ‘We’re going to get a lot louder,’ says Barnstable Clean Water Assoc. Barnstable Town Council was poised to vote Nov. 15 on expanding the highway business district on Route 28 in Centerville and Hyannis, and along West Main Street in […]
Dredging of entrance to Cotuit Bay begins (11/5/18)
Cape Cod Times By Beth Treffeisen Posted Nov 5, 2018 at 7:32 PM Updated Nov 5, 2018 at 8:53 PM Dredging of entrance to Cotuit Bay begins COTUIT — Dredging of the Cotuit Bay entrance channel and the western tip of Sampson’s Island will begin this week. This phase of the project will widen the channel by about 130 feet, and the dredged material will be […]
Coalition Quarterly – Issue 5 (Fall 2018)
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APCC invests $1.2M in Three Bays stormwater management (10/29/18)
The Barnstable Patriot Posted Oct 29, 2018 at 2:00 AM APCC invests $1.2M in Three Bays stormwater management [Photo by: Alan Belanich] The Association to Preserve Cape Cod (APCC) is partnering with the town of Barnstable Department of Public Works (DPW), the Barnstable Clean Water Coalition, the Horsley Witten Group and the Barnstable Land Trust on a five-year local, […]
Developing a roadmap: Barnstable, EPA officials fast-track nitrogen removal efforts (10/29/18)
The Barnstable Patriot By Bronwen Howells Walsh Posted Oct 29, 2018 at 1:29 PM Updated Oct 30, 2018 at 5:27 PM Developing a roadmap: Barnstable, EPA officials fast-track nitrogen removal efforts A who’s who of local, regional, and national environmental officials dedicated to restoring clean water on Cape Cod met Oct. 29 in Woods Hole about how to speed up the region’s groundwater nitrogen removal […]
Barnstable Board of Health, Town Council leadership at odds over sewering, development (10/25/18)
The Barnstable Patriot By Bronwen Howells Walsh Posted Oct 25, 2018 at 5:37 PM Updated Oct 26, 2018 at 9:59 AM Barnstable Board of Health, Town Council leadership at odds over sewering, development Irresponsible, premature, ill-advised, and inappropriate. Those were some of the fiery reactions to a proposal to limit sewer capacity in town at the expense of interim regulations designed to protect the town’s […]
BARNSTABLE TOWN NOTES (10/19/18)
The Barnstable Patriot Posted Oct 19, 2018 at 12:18 PM Updated Oct 19, 2018 at 12:28 PM BARNSTABLE TOWN NOTES MA Nature Conservancy, Barnstable win funding The Nature Conservancy’s Massachusetts chapter has been awarded funding from NatureVest’s 2018 Conservation Investment Accelerator Competition promoting environmental sustainability. NatureVest is the conservation investing unit of The Nature Conservancy. Applications were received from 26 countries and covered sectors as […]
Brew, oysters take center stage at Cape Cod Beer’s fest (10/17/18)
Cape Cod Times By Barbara Clark / Contributing writer Posted Oct 17, 2018 at 3:00 AM Updated Oct 17, 2018 at 4:31 PM Brew, oysters take center stage at Cape Cod Beer’s fest [Photo Credit: Merrily Cassidy/Cape Cod Times] The oysters are coming to Hyannis on Saturday, and the beer crafted with oysters from all over the Cape will be there as well. Cape […]
Barnstable moves ahead with Cotuit Cut dredging (9/13/18)
The Barnstable Patriot By Bronwen Howells Walsh Posted Sep 13, 2018 at 8:30 AM Barnstable moves ahead with Cotuit Cut dredging [Photo By: Bronwen Howells Walsh] On Sept. 6, Barnstable Town Council unanimously approved a $1 million capital appropriation to fund dredging Cotuit Bay Entrance Channel. Barnstable Town Manager Mark Ells announced that the town was also awarded […]