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...]
📌Replay of the 2020 OPC Annual Meeting from November 8th
For those who were unable to be with us on November 8th for the 17th Annual Orleans Pond Coalition Meeting, we recorded the event. If you wish to see the meeting and the featured presentation by Dr. Kenneth Wagner just click the link below. Dr. Wagner reported on OPC’s Sarah’s Pond nanobubble demonstration project, and he gave us all a primer on cyanobacteria. Recording of OPC Annual Meeting … [Read more...]
📌2020 OPC Annual Meeting (via Zoom) – 5:00 PM November 8th
YOU ARE INVITED TO:THE 17th Annual Meeting of the Orleans Pond CoalitionNovember 8, 2020 at 5:00 PM Register Today via Zoom https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_tYvnhOd-SGmN9a57_aQr1w After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the webinar. Featured Speaker: Dr. Kenneth Wagner, PhD., Water Resource Services, Inc. Dr. Wagner holds degrees from Dartmouth College and Cornell University, with his Ph.D. earned in Natural Resource Management in 1985. He has over 40 … [Read more...]
📌2020 OPC Annual Membership Renewal and Appeal
As summer draws to a close, we hope you had wonderful times enjoying our waters. We all felt joy and relief to be out of our houses walking the beaches, swimming in the cool waters, and being out in boats, kayaks and paddleboards. For many of us, our waters are central to our quality of life. This has been a strange and challenging year, but also a year to take the time to think about what is important in our lives--what brings joy to our hearts and peace to our souls. This was a year to celebrate approval at Town Meeting of the … [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...]