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Books At The Water’s Edge: Landscape-Based Adaptations for Sea-level Rise in Barnstable PARCEL BY PARCEL: IN THE THREE BAYS WATERSHED THREE BAYS WATERSHED: Landscape-Based Solutions to Improve Water Quality Design with Nature on Cape Cod and the Islands Living Laboratory Cape Cod BCWC Projects Meet one of our Partners: Massachusetts Alternative Septic System Test Center Cape Cod Neighbors Take Action to Save Their Ponds PFAS: What Are They and Why Do We Care? Pot Calling the Kettle….Pond? Resources for Upcoming Citizen Forums – Town of Barnstable Sewer Assessment Ordinance Presentation Uninvited Guests Along Our Coasts Show your Support for Clean Water by completing this ARPA Survey! Newsletter Coalition Quarterly Coalition Quarterly – Issue 1 (Fall 2017) Coalition Quarterly – Issue 2 (Winter 2018) Coalition Quarterly – Issue 3 (Spring 2018) Coalition Quarterly – Issue 4 (Summer 2018) Coalition Quarterly – Issue 5 (Fall 2018) Coalition Quarterly – Issue 6 (Winter 2019) Coalition Quarterly – Issue 7 (Spring 2019) Coalition Quarterly – Issue 8 (Summer 2019) Coalition Quarterly – Issue 9 (Fall 2019) Coalition Quarterly – Issue 10 (Winter 2020) Coalition Quarterly – Issue 11 (Spring 2020) Coalition Quarterly – Issue 12 (Summer 2020) Coalition Quarterly – Issue 13 (Fall 2020) Coalition Quarterly – Issue 14 (Winter 2021) Coalition Quarterly – Issue 15 (Spring 2021) DNSI Coalition Quarterly – Issue 16 (Summer 2021) Coalition Quarterly – Issue 17 (Fall 2021) Coalition Quarterly – Issue 18 (Winter 2022) Coalition Quarterly – Issue 19 (Spring2022) Coalition Quarterly – Issue 20 (Summer 2022) Coalition Quarterly – Special Double Issue – Issue 21 & Issue 22 (Fall 2022 & Winter 2023) Fall 2020 Newsletter Note from the Helm Weather Station at Fair Acres Country Day School — Making Science Fun Exploring Solutions to Excess Nutrients: Restoring Cape Cod’s Waters Summer 2020 Newsletter A Note from the Helm Summer Water Sampling Progress With Alternative Septic Systems Marstons Mills Cranberry Bog Restoration Summer Staff on the Move Why We Support BCWC Volunteer Spotlight Winter 2021 Newsletter A Note from The Helm That’s a Wrap! The Herring Are Coming and We Are Ready (COVID-Style)! Sands of Time AmeriCorps Spotlight Dead Neck Sampson’s Island Revisited By Local Author Three Bays Preservation Newsletter Three Bays Preservation – Vol. 52 (Spring 2015) Three Bays Preservation – Vol. 53 (Summer 2015) Three Bays Preservation – Vol. 54 (Winter 2016) Three Bays Preservation – Vol. 55 (Summer 2016) Three Bays Preservation – Vol. 56 (Fall 2016) What we do at BCWC Welcome to the Living Laboratory: Come Learn with Us National Water Quality Month: How You Can Make A Difference Nutrient Overload 101 Algal Blooms Piping Plover (Charadrius melodus) All About the Birds Environmentalists Buy Surplus Oysters to Boost Shellfish Industry and Restore Imperiled Waterways Who are those people in those waders? Bioreactor Cranberry Bogs Are You an Invasive Crab? The Living Fossil of the Ocean Sea Sponges, Anemones, Tunicates Galore! Eelgrass: Where Did it All Go? What’s Your Preference? Soft-shelled or Hard-shelled Clams? A Dune’s Duties Diamondback Terrapins: A Girl’s Best Turtle White Sock Challenge Sea Level Rise DNSI Island Time with Ranger Rick An Island Adventure The Adventure Continues… What a June day Plovers & Terns Willets: Determined to Thrive The Ides of Summer News Three Bays Preservation: We are one Cape (7/1/16) Told You So (8/22/16) Three Bays Preservation: Wastewater is everybody’s problem (9/30/16) Clean Water is a Fundamental Right of Citizenship (11/11/16) The Origins of Barnstable’s Drinking Water (1/13/17) Coloring in between the lines of a blue economy (2/22/17) Cape’s nitrogen crisis is treatable (8/3/17) Three Bays Preservation Gets New Name, Updated Mission (6/26/17) Press Release: Wonder of the Water Lecture Series (6/24/17) Barnstable Clean Water Coalition renews call to action at Osterville open house (6/28/17) Barnstable Clean Water Coalition Tackles Water Quality Crisis (6/29/17) Three Bays Preservation renamed, focus expanded (8/2/17) Barnstable Clean Water Coalition: Cape’s nitrogen crisis is treatable (8/3/17) APCC offers plan to reduce Three Bays nitrogen (9/1/17) Barnstable Town Council adopts draft of long-term wastewater treatment plan (9/11/17) Restoring a mill pond (10/8/17) Opposition to Sampsons project misplaced (10/25/17) New book seeks to help Three Bays Watershed (1/25/18) Landscaping with native plants can help clean Cape waters (2/8/18) River Herring are Running in Local Rivers (4/20/18) Watershed Update Presents Problems While Offering Hope (7/6/18) 50,000 oysters to grow in Hyannis tank (7/31/18) Barnstable moves ahead with Cotuit Cut dredging (9/13/18) Brew, oysters take center stage at Cape Cod Beer’s fest (10/17/18) BARNSTABLE TOWN NOTES (10/19/18) Barnstable Board of Health, Town Council leadership at odds over sewering, development (10/25/18) Developing a roadmap: Barnstable, EPA officials fast-track nitrogen removal efforts (10/29/18) APCC invests $1.2M in Three Bays stormwater management (10/29/18) Dredging of entrance to Cotuit Bay begins (11/5/18) Zoning for the future: ‘We’re going to get a lot louder,’ says Barnstable Clean Water Assoc. (11/15/18) Barnstable Board of Health to consider lifting nutrient restrictions (11/21/18) ‘The Cape is not a one-size-fits-all approach to planning’ (11/22/18) Barnstable Health Board delays action to modify water-quality regs (11/27/18) Health Board halts move to lift sewering cap (11/29/18) Easing of Barnstable’s nitrogen rules could prompt lawsuit (1/2/19) Barnstable: Wastewater plan in the works (1/4/19) Fla. red tide episode kills record number of sea turtles (1/17/19) Board of Health Resume Discussion (1/22/19) Are scalloping’s days numbered on Nantucket? (4/7/19) Watershed Action Alliance event addresses water issues (4/22/19) Cape scientists, inmates explore life in the dead zones (5/4/19) Santuit Pond Sounds Alarm On Freshwater (6/20/19) Toxic blooms prompt Cape pond advisories (6/24/19) Barnstable Board of Health says no to amended regulations (6/26/19) The Cape Has 1,000 Freshwater Ponds. How Many Are Toxic? (6/28/19) Red tide raises threat of shellfishing closures (7/1/19) ‘Green’ stormwater systems helping clean coastal waters (7/25/19) Summertime, And Toxic Algae Is Blooming: Here’s What You Need To Know (7/26/19) New Hyannis building will better treat water for PFAS (8/6/19) $12 million water plant build gets underway in Hyannis (8/7/19) Pitch made for Upper Cape wastewater facility (8/7/19) Researchers seek to head off blooming problem in Cape ponds (8/12/19) Mashpee weighs wastewater management options (8/14/19) BARNSTABLE AT WORK (8/26/19) Federal grant to fund PFAS testing in Hyannis (9/25/19) At the Edge of a warming world (9/26/19) Sewer system could add value to a neighborhood (9/26/19) Cape Cod must move faster to clean its ground water and coastal embayments (10/9/19) APCC: Herring counts show mixed results (12/5/19) 95 Environmental Rules Being Rolled Back Under Trump (12/21/19) Falmouth Water Quality Group Examines Alternative Septic Systems (12/24/19) County Connections – Featured Program: Massachusetts Alternative Septic System Test Center (1/16/20) Cape seen as protected from weakening of Clean Water Act (1/24/20) Troubled waters: Scientists test for links between lower herring counts & cyanobacteria (1/31/20) Striking a balance (2/7/20) Relocate Cape Cod Hospital, halt risky expansion (3/9/20) Eastham, Orleans Shellfishing Areas Closed due to Red Tide Toxin (3/20/20) Lawsuit seeks major steps to stem septic pollution The cleaning power of oysters My View: Peers and Piers My View: Time for Title 6 My View: NIMBYism and Wastewater Barnstable Clean Water Coalition Tackles Water Quality Crisis Hard times afflict Massachusetts’ iconic cranberry bogs, as economic and environmental changes reshape the industry Exploring Solutions to Excess Nutrients: Restoring Cape Cod’s Waters Pilot project uses bioreactor to filter nitrogen from Barnstable waters (9/4/20) Lawsuit could disrupt real estate market in 2 Cape Cod towns (9/17/20) Barnstable High School launches $1.2M environmental science & technology lab (12/23/20) ‘Looks Like Something’s Guts Spilled All Over The Beach’ (1/22/21) CLF sues Barnstable over pollution in Lewis Bay (2/17/21) Rep. Keating Sees Legislative Opportunities For Cape Water Quality Goals Scientists find microplastics embedded in New Bedford and Cape Cod salt marshes (6/29/21) Barnstable Warns of Fertilizer Threat to Ecosystem (7/19/21) ‘It’s totally gone’: Mashpee’s water quality at an all-time low, report finds (7/29/21) Improving water quality in ponds starting to gain momentum says panel at regional summit (8/25/21) Conservation Law Foundation sues Barnstable, Masphee and state over wastewater cleanup (6/25/21) Cape ponds test positive for toxic bacteria (5/30/21) Madaket Marine using oysters to combat algae blooms (7/22/21) Barnstable Clean Water Coalition To Break Ground On Innovative Septic System Project (10/5/21) Group pilots alternative wastewater treatment system in Marstons Mills (10/11/21) PFAS advisory: State asks people to limit or not eat fish caught at 5 Cape Cod ponds (11/3/21) A ‘powerful tool’: New septic system technology aimed at helping to clean up Cape waters (11/6/2021) Mashpee Has No Good News About Its Struggles With Degraded Waters (11/12/21) Interview with Sunday Journal New Septic Systems Promising In Protecting Upper Cape Water Systems (3/18/22) Rising temperatures a boon for harmful bacteria in Cape Cod’s fresh and salt water (2/2/22) Podcast Urges Water Stewardship On Cape Cod (4/8/22) First year of Wellfleet oyster project deemed success, as 25,000 pounds of shells recycled (9/30/21) Backed-up pipes, stinky yards: Climate change is wrecking septic tanks (4/12/22) BCWC on the Front Page of today’s Boston Globe Marstons Mills site of 1st national water quality study of its kind (5/18/22) Marstons Mills homes test nitrogen-removing septic wastewater system (6/3/22) New plans emerge to save many Cape Cod ponds, lakes threatened by pollution (6/23/22) BCWC Featured on Chronicle BCWC lands $750,000 EPA pilot grant for bog restoration (10/14/21) Nitrogen Reclassification Will Put Emphasis On Innovative Systems (8/31/22) Thousands of Cape Cod homeowners may need to replace septic systems under new state regulations (11/28/22) BCWC Featured on WXTK (12/11/22) Cape Cod’S Evolving Wastewater Crisis: Facing Reality and Finding Solutions (2/14/23) Discover Barnstable Podcast on Forever Chemicals Flushing toilets on Cape Cod: Report shows waters increasingly polluted (2/22/23) PFAS are everywhere. Removing them from the Cape’s water supply will not be easy. (3/2/23) Ban bill aims to slow spread of PFAS damage (3/4/23) Proposed septic tax credit would save Cape and Islands residents thousands. Here’s how. (3/7/23) Barnstable Clean Water Coalition needs help counting fish. Why, and what you can do. (3/7/23) For the first time, EPA moves to limit ‘forever chemicals’ in drinking water (3/14/23) Want to know more about PFAS? Drop in for a community forum in Barnstable on Saturday (3/23/23)
