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Protect Our Cape Cod Water Aquifer (POCCA) advocacy, education, action

Website: http://poccacapecod.org/







This organization provides Temporary or Permanent Service? Temporary

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POCCA was founded in July 2013 in response to growing concerns about water quality on Cape Cod. The Cape Cod Commission’s Regional Wastewater Management Plan points out that all the towns of Cape Cod share a water table, and many of the Cape’s watersheds straddle more than one town. In other words, waste-water and drinking water problems are a Cape-wide issue, not an issue each town can solve on its own. Several local towns experienced voter rejection of well-planned water infrastructure projects which were deemed unaffordable at the municipal level. We have to work together on a regional level to solve these problems.
POCCA was formed to help disseminate information and help educate the public about the growing problems and possible solutions regarding water management, as well as lobby for tighter controls over pesticide, herbicide and fertilizer use on Cape Cod.

POCCA’S most pressing issue is to prevent NSTAR from spraying herbicidal applications on Cape Cod’s power lines. To see how you can help, please visit the POCCA NSTAR page.

Our Unique Landscape
Cape Cod’s landscape is unique—a fragile sandbar jutting far out to sea, surrounded by salt water and with an abundance of ponds, estuaries and bays but no major rivers or reservoirs. Our water is drawn from one source—from the ground, from the single aquifer that we all share. Each town on the Cape—even Provincetown, which has no potable water of its own and get its water from Truro—pumps its water from the ground. So no town is immune to potential water contamination.
The Cape Cod Commission’s Regional Wastewater Management Plan http://www.capecodcommission.org features maps showing the cross-boundary watersheds, as well as the degree of concern for each of the 14 towns on the Cape. As one would expect, there is greater concern in the Upper Cape, in the built-up areas of Falmouth and Hyannis, than in the Outer Cape towns where much of the land is protected by the Cape Cod National Seashore.

Let’s do all we can to protect Cape Cod’s drinking water!

Natural step forward for Provincetown municipal lawns—
Provincetown hires a Non-Toxic Consultant.
POCCA encourages all other Cape towns to adopt the same practices as Provincetown.

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