BCWC lands $750,000 EPA pilot grant for bog restoration (10/14/21)
BCWC lands $750,000 EPA pilot grant for bog restoration October 14, 2021 The Barnstable Patriot $150,000 a year for five years to help restore 56 acres of cranberry bogs, clean up Three Bays OSTERVILLE — Barnstable Clean Water Coalition (BCWC) was awarded a five-year, $750,000 Southeast New England Program (SNEP) Pilot Watershed grant from the […]
My View: Time for Title 6
My View: Time for Title 6 The Barnstable Patriot Zenas Crocker Published: 8:01 a.m. ET Feb. 17, 2021 Updated: 9:31 a.m. ET Feb. 17, 2021 Story Highlights Groundwater on Cape Cod moves one to four feet a day, so all the wastewater and nitrogen that we have put in the ground is on a slow […]
My View: Peers and Piers
My View: Peers and Piers The Barnstable Patriot Zenas Crocker Published: 7:01 a.m. ET Feb. 11, 2021 Updated: 7:02 a.m. ET Feb. 11, 2021 Barnstable Clean Water Coalition’s (BCWC) work is all about improving water quality on Cape Cod. Piers or docks have an important, albeit controversial, role to play regarding water quality in our […]
My View: NIMBYism and Wastewater
My View: NIMBYism and Wastewater The Barnstable Patriot Zenas Crocker Published 10:07 a.m. ET Feb. 3, 2021 Story Highlights We will need to take multiple approaches, some new and daunting, to achieve our shared goal of clean waters on Cape Cod. We all want our Cape Cod waters to be clean and healthy, yet many […]
Barnstable High School launches $1.2M environmental science & technology lab (12/23/20)
Barnstable High School launches $1.2M environmental science & technology lab Barnstable Patriot Bronwen Howells Walsh Dec 23, 2020 As head of Barnstable High School’s new $1.2 million Environmental Science and Technology Lab, Michael Smith cannot wait to get to work. Now entering his 18th year of teaching at BHS, Smith teaching environmental science and biology in the […]
Lawsuit seeks major steps to stem septic pollution
Lawsuit seeks major steps to stem septic pollution Conservation Law Foundation says Mashpee, Barnstable and Mass. DEP have ‘utterly failed’ to protect waterways Geoff Spillane gspillane@capecodonline.com Published 2:00 a.m. ET Sep. 17, 2020 BOSTON — An impending lawsuit by an environmental advocacy organization could wreak havoc on the real estate market in the towns of Barnstable […]
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 […]
BARNSTABLE AT WORK (8/26/19)
Barnstable Patriot Posted Aug 26, 2019 at 11:43 AM BARNSTABLE AT WORK Individually we are one drop but together, we are an ocean. ~Ryunosuke Satoro As he does every month, photographer William F. Pomeroy turNS his lens to the working men and women of Barnstable. Follow the Patriot on Twitter — @BarnPat — and post a photo of yourself working with the […]
$12 million water plant build gets underway in Hyannis (8/7/19)
Barnstable Patriot By Bronwen Howells Walsh bwalsh@barnstablepatriot.com Posted Aug 7, 2019 at 9:03 AM Updated Aug 9, 2019 at 10:45 AM $12 million water plant build gets underway in Hyannis The Hyannis Water System and officials from Mass DEP held a both a ceremonial and a literal groundbreaking Wednesday for construction of a new $12 million water filtration building at the Maher Water Treatment Plant. […]