Orleans Pond Coalition

Orleans, Massachusetts

Dedicated to the health of Orleans waterways for over 20 years.

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📌OPC February 2022 Bulletin

March 31, 2022 By John Smith

Do You Love our Waters???

It’s Time to Dive In and Get Your Feet Wet

We’re recruiting for multiple water-related volunteer activities. Make new friends, help watch over our waters, learn more about how your actions can make a difference to water quality. It’s fascinating…. And fun!

Cyanobacteria Monitors. OPC in conjunction with APCC is monitoring Crystal and Pilgrim Lakes, Uncle Harvey’s, Icehouse, and (starting this year) Cedar Ponds. Help us track this threat to our ponds and provide safety warnings to humans and pets. For more information and to sign up, click below and:

Contact Jamie Demas

CELEBRATE OUR WATERS!

Approved by Orleans Select Board for September 16-18, 2022. Multiple opportunities from event hosts and car parkers to “sign placers”, Family Fun Tent assistants, social media helpers and more. For more information and to sign up, click below to:

Contact Natalie Timoshin

Fresh Water Pond Samplers: The Town of Orleans collects water samples and monitors oxygen and temperature in 20 freshwater ponds in April and August. If you have a kayak or canoe, equipment and training will be provided. Help add to a robust data set of over 20 years which assists in tracking the health of our ponds. For more information and to sign up, click below and:

Contact Judith Bruce

Estuary Samplers: The Town of Orleans in conjunction with the Pleasant Bay Alliance and SMAST collects water samplers and monitors oxygen, salinity and temperature at multiple sampling stations in the Cape Cod Bay, Pleasant Bay and Nauset Estuaries 5 early summer mornings. Boat captains are desperately needed for Nauset Estuary stations. This data helps inform our wastewater plans and provides essential information for tracking water quality progress. For more information and to sign up, click below and:

Contact Judith Bruce

Herring Counters: The Shellfish and Waterways Committee keeps track of herring counts on their annual migration into fresh water for spawning. The Town is now using a fish counter so it is not yet known if an actual count will be needed. (This year’s count may be validating videos online or doing an actual count at the bridge over the run.) If interested in participating, we’ll get your name on a list for updates and information. The counts are just 10 minutes once a week! To sign up, click below and:

Contact Judith Bruce

Pollinator Pathway of Cape Cod: Have you yet placed your property on the pollinator pathway? And why is a water association a founding partner to the Pollinator Pathway of Cape Cod???

The same things that threaten the health and safety of our bees, butterflies and other pollinators – pesticides, herbicides, chemical fertilizers – also negatively impact our waters. Most everything we put on our lawns and ground or down the drain eventually gets into our groundwater and travels to our ponds and bays and oceans. By eliminating use of these chemicals as much as possible, minimizing lawns and planting native grasses, ground covers, shrubs and flowers, you save our pollinators and our waters. Just add a few natives, go green and sign up to connect a pathway across the entire Cape.To learn more please click below and visit:

Pollinator Pathway Cape Cod

Hope to see you out on our waters and at Celebrate our Waters September 16th thru 18th and

Thank You!!

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About Orleans Pond Coalition

Orleans Pond Coalition, Inc. is a volunteer organization dedicated to protecting and enhancing the saltwater estuaries and freshwater ponds and lakes of Orleans. Our work includes offering educational programs to encourage mindful land use practices, sponsoring water quality research, working with community, regional and state organizations to formulate constructive policies to protect our … Learn More

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Orleans Pond Coalition is dedicated to the protection and health of our shared watersheds, estuaries, ponds and lakes.

Orleans   Pond   Coalition
PO Box 2485
Orleans, MA 02653

info@orleanspondcoalition.org

OPC is a volunteer organization dedicated to protecting and enhancing the saltwater estuaries and freshwater ponds and lakes of Orleans, MA.

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