Parcel By Parcel: In the Three Bays Watershed
Check out Parcel by Parcel: In the Three Bays Watershed The Three Bays Watershed, located in the Towns of Barnstable, Sandwich, and Mashpee, is facing a crisis of water quality degradation. Excess nitrogen has been identified as the largest contributor to water quality degradation throughout Cape Cod including the Three Bays (Cape Cod Commission, 2015.) […]
Coalition Quarterly – Issue 3 (Spring 2018)
Coalition Quarterly – Spring 2018 Newsletter Click on image to read more >> BCWC Spring 2018 Newsletter
River Herring are Running in Local Rivers (4/20/18)
NOAA Fisheries Apr 20, 2018 River Herring are Running in Local Rivers River herring gets over a fish ladder at Mill Pond in Marstons Mills on Cape Cod. It’s that time of year. River herring are returning to local rivers and streams to spawn. For Northeast Fisheries Science Center researcher Ruth Haas-Castro, counts began April 1 […]
Coalition Quarterly – Issue 2 (Winter 2018)
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Landscaping with native plants can help clean Cape waters (2/8/18)
The Barnstable Patriot By Bronwen Howells Walsh Posted Feb 8, 2018 at 10:15 AM Updated Feb 14, 2018 at 1:21 PM Landscaping with native plants can help clean Cape waters [Photo Credit: BCWC] Part two in a three-part series. The Barnstable Clean Water Coalition is taking proven nitrogen mitigation technologies out of the lab and into Marstons Mills Watershed. “By implementing several technologies […]
New book seeks to help Three Bays Watershed (1/25/18)
The Barnstable Patriot By Bronwen Howells Walsh Posted Jan 25, 2018 at 10:11 AM Updated Jan 25, 2018 at 10:11 AM New book seeks to help Three Bays Watershed [Photo Credit: BCWC] Part one in a three-part series. University of Massachusetts-Amherst Professor Jack Ahern and 10 graduate students — with financial support from the Barnstable Clean Water Coalition — have published a […]
Three Bays Watershed: Landscape-Based Solutions to Improve Water Quality
Check out Three Bays Watershed: Landscape-Based Solutions to Improve Water Quality The Three Bays Watershed and Marstons Mills River corridor is located in BArnstable, Sandwich and Mashpee on Cape Cod, Massachusetts. The watershed is part of three separate villages within the Town of Barnstable: Cotuit, Marstons Mills and Osterville. The Three Bays Watershed is comprised […]
Coalition Quarterly – Issue 1 (Fall 2017)
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Opposition to Sampsons project misplaced (10/25/17)
Cape Cod Times By Thomas K. Burgess Oct 25, 2017 Opposition to Sampsons project misplaced The expertise of the Barnstable Clean Water Coalition and the Massachusetts Audubon Society is being called into question by a very small group of beachgoers who object to the removal of 400 feet of the western point of Sampsons Island. Their arguments […]
Restoring a mill pond (10/8/17)
Cape Cod Times October 8, 2017 Restoring a Mill Pond Zenas Crocker, executive director of the Barnstable Clean Water Coalition, says it’s time to shout “hair on fire” about the degrading quality of the Cape’s water resources — from its groundwater to fresh water ponds and salty estuaries. Formerly Three Bays Preservation Inc., the Barnstable […]