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

This Just In

Locally Grown Oysters, a Benefit to the Ecosystem – Courtesy of On Cape Magazine

https://www.pocassetwaterquality.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/OnCape-In-Season-2024-Oysters.pdf

Articles regarding environmentally friendly lawns from our friends at the Association to Preserve Cape Cod (APCC)

How Your Lawn Can Hurt or Help Our Salt Water – PDF
A Cape Cod Lawn – PDF

Bioretention – Everything you ever wanted to know about rain gardens but were afraid to ask!

https://www.pocassetwaterquality.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/Bioretention-also-known-as-rain-gardens.pdf

Pesticides possibly harm more than our water!

https://www.pocassetwaterquality.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/PesticidesPossiblyHarmMoreThanOurWater.pdf

The following resources were referenced at the 2023 PWQC Annual Meeting held on Saturday August 19, 2023.

APCC Native Plant Initiative
AquiFund Loan Program Information
Association to Preserve Cape Cod Landscaping Guide
Bourne Watershed Map
Ecological Landscape Alliance
Grow Native Massachusetts
Pollinator Pathway Cape Cod
Massachusetts Title V Frequently Asked Questions
Septic System Rules – Properly Dispose of Waste
Whitepaper: Nitrogen is the Enemy of our Salt Water
Whitepaper: Fertilizers – Significant Sources of Nitrogen Pollution

Check out the presentation regarding stormwater runoff that was presented to the Pocasset Village Association on June 10, 2023.

https://www.pocassetwaterquality.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/SWIG_presentation_for_PVA_Annual_Meeting_6-10-2023.pdf

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

The Upper Bay Regional Wastewater Feasibility Assessment

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

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

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