WBUR Collaborates with Scientific American to Spread Awareness about Nutrient Pollution from Septic Systems on Cape Cod (2/14/24)
WBUR Collaborates with Scientific American to Spread Awareness about Nutrient Pollution from Septic Systems on Cape CodPublished on: February 14, 2024 Big Press for Big Problems This week, WBUR, Boston’s NPR station, aired a two-part series about Cape Cod’s water pollution challenges. The series was part of a collaboration with Scientific American, which produced an 8-minute video documentary […]
Why septic tanks have become such a big problem on Cape Cod compared to the rest of Mass. (2/12/24)
Why septic tanks have become such a big problem on Cape Cod compared to the rest of Mass.February 12, 2024Nik DeCosta-KlipaWBUR A super (toilet) bowl problem: Cape Cod’s water — its coastline, its freshwater ponds, its saltwater bays — is the linchpin of its tourism-centric economy, and it’s increasingly in bad shape. A recent report found […]
Water quality ‘unacceptable’ for 90% of Cape Cod’s coastal bays (1/17/24)
Water quality ‘unacceptable’ for 90% of Cape Cod’s coastal baysWBURBarbara MoranJanuary 17, 2024 Ninety percent of Cape Cod’s coastal bays and more than a third of its ponds have “unacceptable” water quality. That’s according to the nonprofit Association to Preserve Cape Cod’s annual State of the Waters report, released Wednesday. Cape Cod’s bays and ponds are […]
New state rules mean thousands of Cape Cod homeowners may need to replace septic systems (6/21/23)
New state rules mean thousands of Cape Cod homeowners may need to replace septic systems wbur Barbara Moran June 21, 2023 New state regulations finalized today will require thousands of Cape Cod residents to replace or upgrade their septic systems, unless local water districts come up with plans to mitigate nitrogen pollution. Decades of nitrogen pollution […]
Private well owners stuck with costs to treat ‘forever chemicals’ (2/15/23)
Private well owners stuck with costs to treat ‘forever chemicals’February 15, 2023Barbara MoranWBUR Bill Wachur thought he was just being cautious when he decided to test his well water for PFAS. His home in Stow, Massachusetts, was nowhere near the town’s old fire station or the former mill — sites where the toxic chemicals had seeped […]
Mass. residents express concerns about cost and feasibility of proposed septic regulations (12/5/22)
Mass. residents express concerns about cost and feasibility of proposed septic regulations wbur December 5, 2022 Barbara Moran Installing a nitrogen-filtering septic system. (Courtesy Barnstable Clean Water Coalition) Massachusetts residents are expressing concerns about the cost, feasibility and fairness of proposed environmental regulations that could require thousands of homeowners to replace or upgrade their septic systems […]
Thousands of Cape Cod homeowners may need to replace septic systems under new state regulations (11/28/22)
Thousands of Cape Cod homeowners may need to replace septic systems under new state regulations WBUR November 28, 2022 Barbara Moran Thousands of Cape Cod homeowners may need to replace septic systems under new state regulations – WBUR
Cape Cod’s water quality is getting worse, report finds (1/3/22)
Cape Cod’s water quality is getting worse, report finds wbur January 3, 2022 Walter Wuthmann A fisherman casts his fishing line out into the Cape Cod Canal in Sandwich. (Jesse Costa/WBUR) A new report released Monday finds that surface water quality on Cape Cod has degraded for the third year in a row. The Association to […]
The State Wants To Turn Cranberry Bogs Into Wetlands. It’s Gritty Work
The State Wants To Turn Cranberry Bogs Into Wetlands. It’s Gritty WorkNovember 26, 2019Barbara MoranWBUR This article is more than 4 years old. Alex Hackman picks up a shovel and digs in to what used to be a cranberry bog. Down through an inch or two of tough green cranberry vines, down into the sandy soil beneath. Down, […]
Summertime, And Toxic Algae Is Blooming: Here’s What You Need To Know (7/26/19)
wbur.org July 26, 2019 Barbara Moran Summertime, And Toxic Algae Is Blooming: Here’s What You Need To Know The state Department of Public Health is warning people to keep themselves — and their pets — out of the lower Charles River Basin, from the BU Bridge to the Museum of Science, because of toxic algae. And it’s […]