The APCC’s State of the Waters report shows safe drinking water on Cape Cod, but continuing pollution in bays and ponds that ...

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 Cape Cod and Islands Water Protection Fund Management Board advanced eight clean water infrastructure projects across six Cape Cod towns.

POPPONESSET BAY — Standing at the edge of a converted pontoon boat anchored in Popponesset Bay, environmental researcher Nicole Corbett held a small monitor as Barnstable Clean Water Coalition field ...

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 Barnstable County Department of Health and Environment is offering free water quality testing for private well owners across Cape Cod, according to a community announcement. As of Aug. 4, 2025, ...

CAPE COD BAY (CBS) -- Lobsterman Bill Chaprales remembers the day well. The day in 2019 that he began pulling up cages filled with dead lobster. Chaprales has been on the water since 1970, catching ...

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 ...

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 ...