Barnstable Clean Water Coalition needs help counting fish. Why, and what you can do. (3/7/23)
Barnstable Clean Water Coalition needs help counting fish. Why, and what you can do. Cape Cod Times Heather McCarron March 7, 2023 Spring is just a few weeks away, and for the Barnstable Clean Water Coalition that means one thing in particular: It’s time to count fish. Not just any fish. River herring. The organization is putting together […]
Ban bill aims to slow spread of PFAS damage (3/4/23)
Ban bill aims to slow spread of PFAS damage Cape Cod Times Chris Lisinski State House News Service March 4, 2023 What’s the first step in dealing with an overflowing bathtub? That’s the question MASSPIRG legislative director Deirdre Cummings asks to make her pitch for a sweeping new bill aimed at wrangling the presence of PFAS chemicals in food […]
PFAS are everywhere. Removing them from the Cape’s water supply will not be easy. (3/2/23)
PFAS are everywhere. Removing them from the Cape’s water supply will not be easy. Cape Cod Times Beth Treffeisen March 2, 2023 BOURNE — Rose Forbes, 56, a pollution cleanup manager for the U.S. Air Force on Joint Base Cape Cod, slowly drove her compact SUV toward the entrance of the Otis Rotary in Bourne […]
Flushing toilets on Cape Cod: Report shows waters increasingly polluted (2/22/23)
Flushing toilets on Cape Cod: Report shows waters increasingly polluted Cape Cod Times By: Heather McCarron February 22, 2023 At one time, shellfishing was plentiful and diverse in Hen Cove Harbor on Buzzards Bay in Bourne. But that’s changed over time with an overall decline in water quality because of high concentrations of nutrients — mostly from septic systems […]
Marstons Mills homes test nitrogen-removing septic wastewater system (6/3/22)
Marstons Mills homes test nitrogen-removing septic wastewater system Rich Eldred wickedlocal.com Cape Cod Times June 3, 2022 MARSTONS MILLS — Two septic tanks may be better than one, at least when the second tank can do what the first won’t. The Sandy Shores neighborhood along the shore of Shubael Pond will help test for the next three years a […]
PFAS in lobsters? Another sign these harmful compounds are everywhere, researchers say (2/4/22)
PFAS in lobsters? Another sign these harmful compounds are everywhere, researchers say Doug Fraser Cape Cod Times Feb 4, 2022 Researchers recently analyzed three lobsters caught in Massachusetts waters and found what they call high levels of PFAS. They criticized the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for moving too slowly on studying and regulating these “forever chemicals.“ […]
Rising temperatures a boon for harmful bacteria in Cape Cod’s fresh and salt water (2/2/22)
Rising temperatures a boon for harmful bacteria in Cape Cod’s fresh and salt water Cape Cod Times Doug Fraser Feb. 2, 2022 Here’s the difference between red tide and blue-green algae. Wochit WOODS HOLE — The world depends on water to drink, to irrigate crops, for the seafood that feeds millions. As the earth’s population continues […]
‘Things are worse’: Cape Cod water quality is declining, says environmental group’s report (1/11/22)
‘Things are worse’: Cape Cod water quality is declining, says environmental group’s report Cape Cod Times Doug Fraser Jan 11, 2022 The Association to Preserve Cape Cod has released its third annual State of the Waters report, which evaluates water quality in the Cape’s ponds and lakes, bays and drinking water supplies. What it found is no surprise: continued degradation of […]
A ‘powerful tool’: New septic system technology aimed at helping to clean up Cape waters (11/6/2021)
A ‘powerful tool’: New septic system technology aimed at helping to clean up Cape waters Rachael Devaney Cape Cod Times Nov. 6, 2021 As Jennifer Loughran led a tour of Barnstable Clean Water Coalition’s Shubael Pond Project, she called a newly installed NitROE wastewater treatment septic system a “living laboratory.” “Maybe watching a septic installation […]
PFAS advisory: State asks people to limit or not eat fish caught at 5 Cape Cod ponds (11/3/21)
PFAS advisory: State asks people to limit or not eat fish caught at 5 Cape Cod ponds Cynthia McCormick Cape Cod Times Nov. 3, 2021 In their first advisory about consumption of freshwater fish contaminated with PFAS, Massachusetts public health officials Tuesday advised people to limit or exclude fish from five Upper Cape ponds from […]