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Please check out the various products and services below to help keep our waterways clean.

Organic Fertilizers For Your Property

Nantucket bans the use of fertilizer
https://www.bostonglobe.com/2022/05/04/science/with-coastal-water-quality-declining-nantucket-residents-vote-ban-use-fertilizers/#comment-135735785

Cape Tree Preservation – An organic fertilizer company.  They will come to your home to set up a plan and do the applications.

https://www.capetreepreservation.com

Fish Brew – Organic liquid spray on fertilizer.  Apply yourself or let your lawn care company know this is what you want.

https://fishbrew.com

Jonathan Green Organic Fertilizers – Organic fertilizer to apply yourself, available at Pocasset Hardware.

https://www.jonathangreen.com

This Just In

Blocking the Herring River a century ago brought disastrous ecological consequences. Now, officials want to resurrect it.

https://www.bostonglobe.com/2022/07/27/science/century-later-resurrecting-river-vital-ecosystem/

BCWC I/A Project Featured in the Boston Globe

https://www.pocassetwaterquality.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/Boston-Globe-As-Pollution-Worsens-on-Cape-Cod-May-18-2022.pdf

Coalition Brings Together Leading Scientists to Study Gooseberry Causeway Impacts


https://www.pocassetwaterquality.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/Coalition-Brings-Together-Leading-Scientists-to-Study-Gooseberry-Causeway-Impacts-Buzzards-Bay-Coalition.pdf

Septic System Test Center Makes Strides Toward Better Safeguarding Cape’s Water


https://www.capenews.net/mashpee/news/new-septic-systems-promising-in-protecting-upper-cape-water-systems/article_cc5eaf14-5771-5e73-a4bc-99e96016373d.html

The Upper Bay Regional Wastewater Feasibility Assessment

https://www.pocassetwaterquality.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/FINAL-Upper-Bay-Feasibility-Assessment.pdf

PWQC In The News

Cape Cod Times article Regarding PWQC Comment on the MMA permit

https://www.capecodtimes.com/story/news/2022/02/12/water-quality-coalition-epa-concern-mass-maritime-cape-cod-canal-sewage-disposal/6750948001/

Other Resources

NitROE Nitrogen Reducing Alternative Septic Systems

https://bcleanwater.org/living-lab-cape-cod-blog/coalition-quarterly-issue-17-fall-2021

Pleasant Bay Alliance Reports & Studies

https://pleasantbay.org/reports-and-documents

State of the Waters : Cape Cod 2022

https://capecodwaters.org/overview/#results