Category: Environmental Concerns
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Advice to the Barnstable Clean Water Coalition
Below are our recommendations for using advanced ecological water and nutrient strategies in the watershed planning and modeling for Three Bays watershed in Barnstable, Massachusetts. The situation The average adult resident of Three Bays watershed eats about a ton of food per year. Almost all of that food is imported onto the Cape in trucks.…
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Pick your “ick”
The following letter to the editor by Hilde Maingay was written in response to an editorial in The Falmouth Enterprise criticizing the “ick” factor of eco-toilets. The same paper published the letter on March 13, 2015. The alarm bells of the climate (and environmental) crisis have been ringing in our ears for years and…
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“Proven” doesn’t equal “good”
The following was written by Hilde Maingay and published as a letter to the editor in the Falmouth Enterprise, May 2, 2014. Have you heard it over and over? “We have to sewer the densely populated areas. We can only rely on “proven” sewer technology to clean Little Pond.” But just because sewers are a…
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The Costs of Clean Water
Join the Falmouth Climate Action team for a forum on pollution in our groundwater, ponds and estuaries and what Falmouth voters can do about improving local water quality! Sunday, March 23 from 4 to 6 PM Falmouth Public Library, Main Street, Falmouth Hermann Meeting Room (downstairs) Presentations will cover background on why local water sources…
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Falmouth’s CWMP: Not so comprehensive
The following are Earle Barnhart’s comments on the Town of Falmouth’s Comprehensive Wastewater Management Plan. He expressed these thoughts to a hearing held by the Cape Cod Commission on December 4, 2013 and submitted them to the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection as part of its review process. Introduction My name is Earle Barnhart, and…
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Waste Not, Want Not
Consider… 10 calories of fossil fuel are spent for every calorie an American eats. The nutrients in pee are roughly the same ratio as those found in commercial fertilizer. Dried feces are an excellent source of carbon needed to build soil. An overload of nutrients in fresh and salt water chokes fish, prevents shellfish…
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