Tim Pasakarnis News Today

A 312-unit apartment complex proposed for the former Twin Brooks golf course in Hyannis is moving closer to possible approval. A subcommittee of the Cape Cod Commission voted Tuesday to accept a drawback of the plan — the fact that it would increase impervious coverage of the 40-acre parcel — because the project would improve how stormwater is handled in other ways. Tim Pasakarnis, a water resources analyst with the Commission, said the Emblem Hyannis apartment plan would reduce the amount o...

Cape Cod water analyst says that the county has been behind average percipitation by 5 inches since February

DENNIS – Hydrologists mark a different start to the new year than the rest of us. The “water year” starts Sept. 29, and marks the end of the drawdown of groundwater levels by evaporation, trees and lawns, and the beginning of the recharge of our aquifer by rain and winter snow. This water year began with over half of Cape Cod and the Islands in the grip of extreme drought and the rest in severe drought. With little snow this winter and not quite enough spring rain, the region stands on ...