This map, one of many in the 2025 report, depicts watershed scores as well as embayment statuses.
CAI | By Amy Kolb Noyes
The Association to Preserve Cape Cod has released its annual State of the Waters: Cape Cod report. The report gives a pass/fail grade to coastal embayments and ponds, and rates drinking water supplies on the Cape.
The environmental nonprofit rated most public drinking water supplies “excellent” while two, Wellfleet and Buzzards Bay, were listed as “good.” About half the Cape’s public drinking water sources contain PFAS, although below the level the state considers a problem.
APCC Executive Director Andrew Gottlieb said surface water conditions are not as good.
