Barnstable Clean Water Coalition Tackles Water Quality Crisis
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Wednesday, June 27, 2017 Media Contact: Executive Director Zenas “Zee” Crocker Barnstable Clean Water Coalition 508-420-0780 zcrocker@BCleanWater.org Barnstable Clean Water Coalition Tackles Water Quality Crisis The Environmental Non-Profit Formerly known as Three Bays Preservation, Inc. Evolves into Town-Wide Organization Osterville, Cape Cod, Mass. – A flagship environmental non-profit founded in Osterville in […]
Three Bays Preservation Gets New Name, Updated Mission (6/26/17)
Cape Cod Times June 26, 2017 Three Bays Preservation Gets New Name, Updated Mission OSTERVILLE – Three Bays Preservation hosted an open house on Friday to reintroduce themselves to the community, now as The Barnstable Clean Water Coalition. The Coalition’s Executive Director Zenas Crocker says that the new name serves a number of purposes for […]
Press Release: Wonder of the Water Lecture Series (6/24/17)
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Saturday, June 24, 2017 Media Contact: Barnstable Clean Water Coalition, Executive Director, Zenas “Zee” Crocker 508-420-0780, zcrocker@BCleanWater.org Osterville Village Library Hosts Wonder of Water Lecture Series Lectures Presented by Barnstable Clean Water Coalition Formerly Three Bays Preservation, Inc. Osterville, Mass. –Seven illustrated and thought-provoking programs on the natural history, cultural heritage and environmental […]
Cotuit Rain Garden
Innovative green infrastructure sits unobtrusively within the parking lot of the Cotuit Town Dock at Oyster Place Road in Cotuit, just mere feet from Cotuit Bay. A long rain garden, otherwise known as bio-retention, was installed along the north side of the parking lot there in April 2016. A rain garden is an alternative to […]
Coloring in between the lines of a blue economy (2/22/17)
Three Bays Preservation: Coloring in between the lines of a blue economy February 22, 2017 By: Michael J. Egan The blue water economy aptly describes how Cape Codders support themselves through tourism and sustainable year-round occupations. Cape Cod’s blue water economy and unique ecosystem have been around for hundreds of years… Click Here to Read […]
The Origins of Barnstable’s Drinking Water (1/13/17)
The Origins of Barnstable’s Drinking Water January 13, 2017 By: Michael J. Egan One of our most critical components to life here in the Town of Barnstable lies just beneath our feet. But have you thought of exactly where our drinking water come from? All drinking water in the Town of Barnstable comes from the ground. We don’t […]
Clean Water is a Fundamental Right of Citizenship (11/11/16)
Clean Water is a Fundamental Right of Citizenship November 11, 2016 By: Michael J. Egan Access to clean water is a fundamental right of every citizen in the Town of Barnstable. After public safety and security, it’s the second most important municipal service we as residents provide to ourselves. And our water, that one resource aside from […]
Three Bays Preservation – Vol. 56 (Fall 2016)
Save Our Struggling Ecosystem Cotuit Town Dock Rain Garden Update Dead Neck/Sampson’s Island 2016 Bird Report Summertime 2016 Click here to read Newsletter >>
Three Bays Preservation: Wastewater is everybody’s problem (9/30/16)
Three Bays Preservation: Wastewater is everybody’s problem September 30, 2016 By Michael J. Egan Everyone in Barnstable should be worried about a polluted ecosystem, every teenager, adult and senior citizen – but once they are, what can be done? That’s what I’ve been thinking whenever the concern about the nitrogen crisis in the Three Bays […]
Told You So (8/22/16)
Told You So August 22, 2016 By: Michael J. Egan If ever there was a sign that West, North and Cotuit Bays are severely wounded from toxic doses of excess nitrogen, look no further than the large, ugly masses of brown algae grasping into the water column across the 1,251-acre estuary, leaving a community and […]