Relocate Cape Cod Hospital, halt risky expansion (3/9/20)
Cape Cod Times By Zenas Crocker Posted Mar 9, 2020 at 2:01 AM Relocate Cape Cod Hospital, halt risky expansion Cape Cod Healthcare (CCHC) is in the final stages of planning a hospital campus expansion that brings important community assets closer to Hyannis Harbor and our rising seas. The sensible and vital, longer-term vision should […]
Coalition Quarterly – Issue 10 Winter 2020
Coalition Quarterly Issue 10 Winter 2020 Click on image (or buttons) below to read more >> Single Page Double Page (FlipBook) BCWC_Newsletter_Winter2020_WEB
Striking a balance (2/7/20)
The Barnstable Patriot By Marina Davalos Feb 7, 2020 Striking a balance This is the second of a two-part series. Part 1 covered the problem: excess nitrogen and phosphorus from the Cape’s existing septic systems are creating toxic environments in our bodies of water. Period. Now for the solutions. We talked with Linda Cronin, professional […]
Troubled waters: Scientists test for links between lower herring counts & cyanobacteria (1/31/20)
The Barnstable Patriot By Marina Davalos Jan 31, 2020 Troubled waters: Scientists test for links between lower herring counts & cyanobacteria This is the first in a two-part series. Low herring counts and increasing cyanobacteria blooms mean that more needs to be done to curb human activity when it comes to the Cape’s most precious […]
Cape seen as protected from weakening of Clean Water Act (1/24/20)
Cape Cod Times By Doug Fraser Posted Jan 24, 2020 at 9:14 PM Cape seen as protected from weakening of Clean Water Act The Trump administration and the Environmental Protection Agency unveiled a new Clean Water Act rule this week that removed many Obama administration protections of streams, wetlands and other water bodies that don’t […]
County Connections – Featured Program: Massachusetts Alternative Septic System Test Center (1/16/20)
CapeCod Today By Sonja Sheasley Jan 16, 2020 County Connections – Featured Program: Massachusetts Alternative Septic System Test Center Supporting local health departments with testing and research… Editor’s note – “County Connections” is a monthly column illustrating how Barnstable County supports our region through its numerous and multifaceted programs and initiatives. MASSTC, a division of the Barnstable County […]
About Dead Neck Sampson’s Island
Management of DNSI We may be the Barnstable Clean Water Coalition now, but up until spring 2017, this organization was known as Three Bays Preservation, Inc. with a mission to preserve, maintain and protect the 12,541-acre watershed that encompasses North, West and Cotuit Bays. Here is how Three Bays Preservation came to be. In the […]
Falmouth Water Quality Group Examines Alternative Septic Systems (12/24/19)
The Falmouth Enterprise By STEVEN WITHROW Dec 24, 2019 Falmouth Water Quality Group Examines Alternative Septic Systems The Falmouth Water Quality Management Committee earlier this month brought in three guest speakers to give an update on the state of innovative/alternative, or I/A, nitrogen-reducing septic systems. Chairman Eric T. Turkington said sewering the entire town to […]
95 Environmental Rules Being Rolled Back Under Trump (12/21/19)
New York Times By NADJA POPOVICH, LIVIA ALBECK-RIPKA and KENDRA PIERRE-LOUIS Dec 21, 2019 95 Environmental Rules Being Rolled Back Under Trump President Trump has made eliminating federal regulations a priority. His administration, with help from Republicans in Congress, has often targeted environmental rules it sees as burdensome to the fossil fuel industry and other big businesses. A New York […]
APCC: Herring counts show mixed results (12/5/19)
Wicked Local Brewster Posted Dec 5, 2019 at 6:57 PM APCC: Herring counts show mixed results An analysis by the Association to Preserve Cape Cod of the 2019 volunteer spring herring counts show the results to be a mixed bag containing both good and bad news. They indicate that river herring populations on Cape Cod […]