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Category: Water and Wastewater

Did you Receive a Letter from Your Local Water Department Regarding Potential Lead in Your Water Lines? Here’s What You Should Know.

Barnstable County Water Quality Laboratory has been receiving a high volume of phone calls from homeowners across the Commonwealth who recently received a letter from their local water department prompting […]

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Cape Cod Times: ‘Other contaminants.’ Test center in Sandwich looks beyond backyard septic systems

By Heather McCarron, Cape Cod Times SANDWICH — On the southeastern edge of Joint Base Cape Cod, at an unassuming spot between the Francis A. Crane Wildlife Management Area and Otis Air National Guard […]

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The Alternative: A Newsletter from the Massachusetts Alternative Septic System Technology Center

Check out MASSTC’s most recent edition of their newsletter “The Alternative”!

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WCAI: Barnstable’s Septic System Test Center is Expanding

The Massachusetts Alternative Septic System Test Center—or MASSTC—is a Barnstable County program that has done cutting-edge wastewater management research for the past 25 years. Now, with a $3.3 million infusion […]

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Commissioners Applaud Healey-Driscoll Administration for Stopping Proposed Machine Gun Range in Upper Cape Water Supply Reserve

Barnstable, MA (September 30, 2024) – Today, the Healey-Driscoll Administration officially stopped construction of a Multi-Purpose Machine Gun Range (MPMGR) on Joint Base Cape Cod, which was proposed to reside in […]

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The Alternative: A Newsletter from the Massachusetts Alternative Septic System Technology Center

Check out MASSTC’s most recent edition of their newsletter “The Alternative”!

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Healey-Driscoll Administration Awards Nearly $2 Million to Drive Innovation in Wastewater

On Wednesday, September 11, 2024, the Mass Tech Collaborative published the following press release: Today, the Healey-Driscoll administration announced a $1,975,000 grant through Mass Tech Collaborative’s (MassTech’s) Innovation Institute to […]

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The Falmouth Enterprise: County Program Could Assist Town in Implementing I/As

Barnstable County is offering Falmouth a chance to take part in a program that could help regulate septic system technologies as residents begin installing them around town. The water quality […]

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The Bourne Enterprise: Septic System Test Center Looks to Expand

When Brian Baumgaertal moved to Cape Cod from upstate New York 16 years ago, the problem of troubled waters was, by his own admission, “not so big.” Now, nearly two […]

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