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

Cape Cod is gearing up to tackle water quality, saving river herring and preparing for wildfires in 2026. Here’s the outlook.

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 ...

More than two-thirds of Cape Cod's embayments, or shoreline indentations, and one-third of its freshwater ponds have serious water quality issues, a new report finds. The report out Wednesday, from ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...