The Board of Directors is very excited about 2024. It will be the most productive year in our brief 4 year history. So much has happened since our Incorporation in December 2019. We now have over 300 email subscribers. The Town of Bourne is listening to what we have to say. We have a voice on the Bourne Wastewater Advisory Committee. The Pocasset Water Qualify Coalition (PWQC) has been recognized by many other like minded groups on and around Cape…
The Pocasset Water Quality Coalition has been awarded a $37,655 grant through a
program under the US Environmental Protection Agency’s Southeast New England
Program (SNEP).
Thank you to the over 120 people who attended the 2023 PWQC Annual Meeting. Special thanks to our speakers: State Senator Susan Moran, APCC Director Andrew Gottlieb and Bourne Select Board Chair Mary Jane “MJ” Mastrangelo. And to Sue Barlow & BourneTV for video taping the meeting. Also to CLF Board Chair Sara Molyneaux for attending and continuing to support our effort. It was very rewarding for the PWQC Board of Directors to receive so many positive comments after the…
From July 9, 2023 Bourne Enterprise – Used with permission The Pocasset Water Quality Coalition has offered to install rain gardens as green infrastructure in the group’s ongoing efforts to assist in cleaning up the town’s waterways. The rain gardens would be constructed on town property and upon completion will be gifted to the town by the coalition. The offer to build on town property was approved by the Bourne Select Board during its meeting onTuesday, June 6. Coalition President…
PWQC Annual Meeting Saturday AUGUST 19 @ 10AM PHIA Building 100 Circuit Avenue. Speakers and the agenda will be named and provided in future emails. The updated Massachusetts Department of Environmental Portections Title V regulations are due to be released by the end of June 2023. These regulations will apply to Cape Cod and possibly some south coast communities. These regulations will have a significant impact on all of us in Pocasset. PWQC will be continually updating everyone thru email and on…
The Pocasset Water Quality Coalition has collaborated with other Cape Cod groups concerned about our water. We have placed this ad in the January 29 Boston Sunday Globe (click link below to see our ad). This ad makes a statement to Massachusetts State Officials that the Department of Environmental Protection needs to update Title V septic regulations for Cape Cod Immediately!!! https://acrobat.adobe.com/link/review?uri=urn:aaid:scds:US:af02e1d7-8ff9-347a-9fb7-bcb6c6c7eefc
These regulations are the first update to Title V since the 1990s. Since the last update new innovative alternative (I/A) technology has been developed reducing the amount of nitrogen septic systems leave in the ground. Nitrogen reduction is the key to improving our water quality.
The proposed new DEP Title V regulations for Cape Cod need your help! These regulation changes are 20 to 30 years overdue. Nitrogen is ruining our saltwater! Click here to learn more!
The Pocasset Water Quality Coalition Inc. (PWQC) is pleased for the opportunity to provide the following comments on the draft renewal permit for the NPDES discharge for the Massachusetts Military Academy (MMA) – NPDES permit number MA002-4368.
Monday August 16, 2021 We held the Annual Meeting for Pocasset Water Quality Coalition (PWQC) Saturday 8/14/21. An estimated 80+ people attended. The Board of Directors spoke to update everyone on the Coalition’s progress. In a meeting with Town of Bourne officials on August 10, 2021, two different officials confirmed that the estimated 140 residents of the Hen Cove area made a major impact when we attended the Selectman’s meeting on September 3, 2019. The result of this community response…
Our local water quality is greatly impacted by the nitrogen loading coming from ground runoff. Here are 5 easy things YOU can do to help: Reduce fertilizer use: Test your soil to see how much fertilizer you need. Limit fertilizer use to 1-2 times per year. Try organic slow release water insoluble fertilizer in the fall. Don’t fertilize on windy days or before a rainstorm. Keep fertilizer off the pavement. Avoid fertilizing close to the edge of the yard if…
Last September 3, more than 80 frustrated Pocasset residents jammed into a meeting before the selectmen at the Veterans Community Center in Buzzards Bay to demand action to address the increasing pollution in Hen Cove. Frank Gasson urged the Town to support a plan to remove the sand and mud dredged up from Hen Cove in 1960 and deposited on the wetlands between Hen Cove and Barlow’s Landing, stopping the flow of all seawater between the two bays. Frank said…
This 1917 Mass Department of Commerce map shows the natural flow of water between Barlow’s Landing Harbor and Hen Cove. These marshes and waterways enabled plant and marine life in Barlow’s Landing, Wing’s Neck inlet and Hen Cove to thrive for millennia. Before the 1880s, water flowed freely between the two bays. In the mid-1880s, the Town constructed a dirt road and a wooden bridge to span the channels. This structure was replaced with a concrete bridge in the 1920s. …
Please see wonderful article about PWQC and ongoing efforts to improve marine water quality in Pocasset by Michael Rausch in The Bourne Enterprise from 9 MAY 2020! (click the News tab for the link)
The Department of the Treasury notified us that PWQC qualifies for exemption from Internal Revenue Code Section 501(c)(3) and that donors may deduct contributions to PWQC.
THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU!!! With energetic support from a significant majority of those voting in the special town meeting, ARTICLE 2 from the warrant approved a $50,000 appropriation from the Community Preservation Fund for engineering evaluation of the water quality of Hen Cove, Barlows [sic] Landing, Patuisset Island Pond and Wings Neck Dam.
