A Cape Cod lawn is an open area that is not irrigated, fertilized, or otherwise treated with chemicals. It is diverse with species, undulating with height of plants, a natural area, except for maybe occasional..
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The 2024 PWQC Annual Meeting took place on Saturday August 17th and was a great success. The meeting featured lots of great speakers as well as important information about our local water bodies and pending Title V regulations. You can view the meeting in its entirety here!
The case of the poisoned trees in Maine accelerates a movement to beef up local environmental laws across the state
From Boston Globe article published 8/27/24. Used by permission.
2024 PWQC Annual Meeting is 8/17. 10:00 AM PHIA BuildingThe Pocasset Water Quality Coalition will hold it’s 4th Annual Meeting Saturday August 17. The usual time, 10:00 AM. the usual place, 100 Circuit Ave. (across from the boat ramp). This will be the most interesting and informative meeting yet! We will be working hard to keep our promise of a 1 hour meeting. Link Below to the Meeting announcement: annual meeting announcement updated.pdf Some of the PWQC oysters have arrived in…
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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).
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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…
Important news regarding new Massachusetts Title V Regulations as reported by the Boston Globe. Reprinted by permission.
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…