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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 […]

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 […]

Cape Cod Academy Water Days

For the past three years, Barnstable Clean Water Coalition has partnered with Cape Cod Academy to educate students on impacts of excess nitrogen and stormwater runoff in local waters. Four green technology projects were designed and developed to demonstrate potential solutions to degraded water quality in ponds and bays. Students visited several project sites including […]

Discover Pirate’s Cove

Explore the natural treasure troves of Pirate’s Cove on Sampson’s Island. All ages are welcome to join our Summer Rangers for an hour of fun and interactive activities along the shoreline. Learn about the intertidal zone and its inhabitants from horseshoe crabs to shorebirds, and how we as citizen scientists can help protect our local […]

Bayside Explorers

Bayside Explorers is a hands-on, marine discovery program for families that incorporates exploratory field experiences with natural history lessons on the local marine environment. This educational outreach program allows participants to get their hands and feet wet using seine nets, minnow traps, and plankton tows to collect marine organisms in East Bay off Dowses Beach […]