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 […]
Barnstable Town Council adopts draft of long-term wastewater treatment plan (9/11/17)
The Barnstable Patriot September 11, 2017 Barnstable Town Council adopts draft of long-term wastewater treatment plan Lindsey Counsell’s work is done, and yet it’s just begun. Counsell retired in April after 20 years as executive director of Three Bays. He retired again Aug. 17 as chairman of the town’s Water Resources Advisory Committee, because the […]
APCC offers plan to reduce Three Bays nitrogen (9/1/17)
The Barnstable Patriot September 1, 2017 APCC offers plan to reduce Three Bays nitrogen Stormwater runoff and fertilizer account for more than 23 percent of the nitrogen polluting the Three Bays watershed, according to the first phase of a three-year study by the Association to Preserve Cape Cod, the Barnstable Clean Water Coalition and the […]
Barnstable Clean Water Coalition: Cape’s nitrogen crisis is treatable (8/3/17)
The Barnstable Patriot August 3, 2017 Barnstable Clean Water Coalition: Cape’s nitrogen crisis is treatable [Photo By: Bronwen Howells Walsh] Barnstable gets its drinking water from the same source that its septic systems are leaching into, and the nitrogen crisis facing Cape Cod is not sustainable. That’s what Michael Egan, president of the board […]
Barnstable Clean Water Coalition renews call to action at Osterville open house (6/28/17)
The Barnstable Patriot June 28, 2017 Barnstable Clean Water Coalition renews call to action at Osterville open house It was a celebration of past accomplishments combined with a fresh call to action for the future as the newly-christened Barnstable Clean Water Coalition – formerly known as Three Bays Preservation – held an open house at […]