The Cape Cod Commission has unveiled a new draft plan aimed at supporting the health of Cape Cod’s many freshwater ponds and lakes and is inviting public review and comment. The Cape Cod Freshwater ...

Cape Cod's water quality remains a top environmental problem, with significant worries about the health of coastal embayments and freshwater ponds. At the same time, the region's public drinking water ...

The quality of drinking water from water supplies across Cape Cod remains mostly excellent, but a significant number of ponds and embayments continue to have unacceptable water quality, according to a ...

The Environmental Protection Agency has issued a draft determination warning that a proposed machine gun training range on a National Guard base could threaten drinking water for over 220,000 ...

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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 regional ...

A new report released Monday finds that surface water quality on Cape Cod has degraded for the third year in a row. The Association to Preserve Cape Cod's annual State of the Waters report tracks the ...

When you live on what’s essentially a sandbar, pollution, septic systems, and political roadblocks add up to one tough challenge. ON AN OVERCAST JULY MORNING, Diane Carlson wades calf-deep into Cape ...

Cod was once so plentiful in New England that legend had it you could walk across the local waters by stepping on the backs of the fish. Now, though, this tasty species is in such trouble there that ...

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency issued a draft determination Thursday that a proposed machine gun training range at a National Guard base could pose a threat to Cape Cod's drinking water, ...