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