by SOTW | Dec 4, 2020 | News
On a sunny day in October, an excavator is digging into a layer of sand and cranberry plants along the Child’s River, near the border of Falmouth and Mashpee. Tree stumps are scattered about, and channels of water are diverted around up-turned dirt piles. Full...
by SOTW | Nov 9, 2020 | Video
Cyanobacteria reaches unsafe levels in Cape Cod ponds. Watch the...
by SOTW | Nov 9, 2020 | News
A kettle pond shoreline in the Cape Cod National Seashore (Courtesy CCNS) The water quality on Cape Cod’s ponds and bays is bad and getting worse, according to the second annual State of the Waters report from the Association to Preserve Cape Cod (AAPC), a...
by SOTW | Oct 27, 2020 | Press
CHATHAM — People have grown to expect that hot summer weather drives pond algae blooms. But with temperatures cooling into autumn, it was a little jarring last week to hear that Chatham had closed Goose Pond to people and pets after a cyanobacterial bloom was...
by SOTW | Oct 27, 2020 | Press
Mats of algae, a sign of nutrient pollution, cloaked the surface of the Mashpee River this past June. RYAN SPENCER/ENTERPRISE Nutrient pollution has long degraded Cape Cod’s bays and estuaries, but data analyzed by the Association to Preserve Cape Cod suggests...
