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Pond Stories: Out My Window, Ashumet Pond
By Dianne Chilingerian So often when I look out my window, I am struck by the beauty of Ashumet Pond and feel compelled to take a photograph. I’m not a professional photographer, but sometimes I am able to capture the magic, and that is exciting! In this photo of...
Now is the Time
A lot gets decided in the relative quiet of Cape Cod winters. Now is the time that town meeting warrants are assembled, municipal budgets are developed, and candidates for local boards declare themselves for elections that occur in the spring. What this all means is...
Pond Stories: The Wonderful World of Woodies
by Judith Bruce Most of us are very aware of and regularly get out and appreciate the wonders of nature in our saltwater environment: Watching the marshes change from the palest yellow-green to deep emerald from spring to summer then to an amazing gold in autumn;...
Pond Stories: The Smithsonian Podcast About Water
I recently discovered this Smithsonian's Stories from Main Street Podcast from a friend in Western Mass who has been watching our water challenges here on the Cape. Not to take any comfort in that we are not alone with this issue, it is exciting to see the...
Speak Up for Ponds and Lakes
APCC’s third annual State of the Waters: Cape Cod report is out and we encourage you to review it. While there is a lot of information and important policy recommendations throughout the report, the one I want to focus attention on pertains to lakes and ponds. More...
Pond Stories: How the Painted Turtle Got His Colors
by Susan Baur The water had finally climbed above 70 degrees in June and turtles, still hungry from hibernation, were out eating everything they could cram in their mouths. I swam slowly to a rocky point, and in fifteen minutes saw all three kinds of...
WBUR: Cape Cod’s water quality is getting worse, report finds
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 water quality of the Cape's freshwater ponds, marine estuaries, and...
WCAI: Water quality report: one-third of ponds tested on Cape Cod called ‘unacceptable’
One-third of ponds and nearly 90 percent of embayments on the Cape had ‘unacceptable’ water quality in 2020, according to the Association to Preserve Cape Cod’s third annual State of the Waters report, which also revealed the first-ever less-than-perfect score for a...
The Enterprise: APCC State Of The Waters Report: Optimism Despite Continued Water Quality Decline
The water column grew clouded with algae. Species of shellfish, abundant just decades ago, disappeared along with the eelgrass. The story is the same for estuaries and bays across Cape Cod: water quality is declining and has been for years. Full Article
Stay Tuned
Perhaps more so than in prior years, this New Year left me with a greater sense of urgency than most. It could be a function of getting older and more aware of the passage of time. That is probably part of it. But another factor is a combined sense of great...