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A Note from The Helm

Over twenty years ago, Three Bays Preservation was founded with a mission to protect our bays with a primary focus to preserve the barrier island known as Dead Neck Sampson’s Island (DNSI). Four years ago, we changed our name to Barnstable Clean Water Coalition (BCWC), as we recognized that everything we loved about Cape Cod […]

Exploring Solutions to Excess Nutrients: Restoring Cape Cod’s Waters

Welcome to the bulletin on the Environmental Protection Agency’s research to address excess nutrient loading in Cape Cod’s waters! This will be a biannual update for interested community members on what EPA scientists based in the Office of Research and Development and Region 1, Boston, MA, and our many research partners and stakeholders, have been […]

Weather Station at Fair Acres Country Day School — Making Science Fun

For any project, gathering data is vital – how else can we understand the results of our efforts? For the Shubael Pond Innovative and Alternative Septic System Project, it is important for us to be able to measure how much wastewater and rainwater is flowing into the ground. It is also critical to understand and […]

Note from the Helm

We’ve all heard the saying, “If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.” At the core of this proverb is the idea of partnership. Stellar results in business and in life usually have partnerships at their foundation, which has proven to be the case for BCWC’s work […]

Volunteer Spotlight

Volunteer Spotlight: Chuck Gifford What is left to do when you already spend your time fishing, cycling, hiking, acting, traveling, sailing, and volunteering for the Rotary Club? For Chuck Gifford, the answer was volunteering with BCWC – and we are the luckier for it. One day, Chuck saw our posters advertising for herring count volunteers […]

Why We Support BCWC

Why We Support BCWC: David Abelman & Marilyn Weil-Abelman After spending many years visting the ponds on Cape Cod with their then young children, David Abelman and his wife Marilyn decided to make Long Pond in Marstons Mills their Cape escape. “Here on Long Pond, you would never know you were in the hustle and […]

Summer Staff on the Move

For three summers now, BCWC has grown oysters in an upweller demonstration project on Hyannis Harbor in partnership with the Massachusetts Oyster Project and the town of Barnstable. The tiny oyster spat are only 1-2mm (the size of a grain of sand) when first placed in buckets in the upweller. They filter phytoplankton (algae), nutrients […]

Marstons Mills Cranberry Bog Restoration

In December 2019, BCWC, the EPA and TNC co-hosted the Marstons Mills Cranberry Bog Restoration Workshop. This workshop, attended by 47 scientists and regulators from the local, state, and national level, focused on identifying nature-based strategies to reduce the amount of nitrogen travelling through the cranberry bogs at the headwaters of the Marstons Mills River. […]

Progress With Alternative Septic Systems

Back in June, a new alternative septic system called the NitROE Waste Water Treatment System (NitROE WWTS) received a permit for “provisional approval” from the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection. This permit codifies a 40% improvement over all previously permitted Innovative/Alternative septic systems – and that is only the beginning! We believe this system will […]