Special Reports from OPC and APCC on two major Fresh Water programs in Orleans Your Voice is Needed to Help Secure Funds to Improve Water Quality on Cape Cod! You may have seen Legislation in the news this month outlining approval of a new bill called the American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) providing Barnstable County with $41.3 million in grant federal funds. “Cape Cod has a tremendous opportunity to utilize (these) American Rescue Plan Act funds to make progress in key areas for our region, including protecting our water, … [Read more...]
📌2021 Celebrate Our Waters – It’s Time to Book Your Water Adventure!
It’s Time toPLAN YOUR CELEBRATE OUR WATERS ADVENTURE! Our website schedule is now on-line. Many of our activities do not require a reservation. Visit our Celebrate our Waters schedule and plan to attend any number of interesting and fun activities including the Family Fun Tent at Rock Harbor, bird walks, a sandsculpting contest, a walk around the pristine and beautiful Bakers Pond, a bicycle tour of many of the beautiful waterscapes of Orleans, a tour of OPC’s oxygenation demonstration project or tour fascinating approaches to stormwater … [Read more...]
📌2021 Earth Day Bulletin
It's Earth Day 2021 - OPC Call for Volunteers Join OPC as we step up to help our waters Call for Volunteers: Estuary Samplers, summer 2021 (dates tbd): Join Orleans volunteers to sample our estuaries - Pleasant Bay, Cape Cod Bay, Town Cove and Nauset Estuary – for our 22nd year of sampling and monitoring Orleans marine water quality. Pleasant Bay is all set but volunteers are needed (especially with boats) for Town Cove and Nauset Estuaries and a team of 1 or 2 to sample Rock Harbor by wading in. 5 early mornings July thru early … [Read more...]
📌 OPC is Looking for a Few Good People…
Water Samplers, Mutt Mitt Stockers, and Celebrate our Waters Volunteers Needed. Do You Love Our Waters? We Need Water Samplers... Every summer since 2000, citizens of all ages from teens to nineties have volunteered a few hours to collect scientific data on estuary waters of Orleans. This summer more volunteers are needed sample Town Cove, Nauset Estuary, and Little Pleasant Bay on five mornings. We will teach you the skills for collecting water samples and taking measurements of temperature and dissolved oxygen. Please volunteer and … [Read more...]