Nitrogen Loading News Today

The Town of Falmouth has all the permits it needs to begin construction on the inlet-widening project in Bournes Pond this fall.

Mashpee and Sandwich are making progress toward filing a notice of intent for a Popponesset Bay watershed permit with the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection.

Bourne’s plan for addressing waterways impaired by nitrogen pollution has continued to progress and is now entering a new phase. Town consultants have concluded an analysis of alternatives for how

The state has finalized a set of regulations that will require Falmouth, along with all other towns on the Cape, to address its nitrogen-loading problem within the next 22 years.

Herring Brook—a salt marsh in West Falmouth—is thriving, despite increased nitrogen flowing from municipal wastewater discharge. A consultant delivered the good news in a draft report to the water quality

If Saxon Partners wants to fully negate the nitrogen impact of its proposed 300-unit apartment complex on Sandwich Road in Falmouth it has two options, a town consultant says: connect

Projects under the jurisdiction of the Mashpee Conservation Commission will be subject to new nitrogen loading and innovative/alternative (I/A) septic system requirements after the commission voted unanimously to approve an

The Mashpee Conservation Commission heard public comment on an amended nitrogen loading regulation at its meeting last Thursday, February 23. If approved by town counsel and the commission, the regulation

The Mashpee Conservation Commission moved ahead regulatory changes related to water quality, submitting a bylaw amendment expanding the town’s wetland buffer zone and approving an amended regulation regarding nitrogen loading.

AutoCamp Cape Cod, the luxury campground on Palmer Avenue in Falmouth, has hired Jan Blum of West Falmouth as its new general manager.