From the Falmouth Enterprise · January 13, 2015
Citizens for the Protection of Waquoit Bay announced that Matthew D. Patrick, a former chair of the group, would return as its executive director. Chairman Michael O’Leary called it a revival after a stretch of little advocacy. CPWB’s main aim was to make sure the town’s comprehensive wastewater management plan for Waquoit Bay was effective, practical and affordable. Other plans included finding places where road runoff reaches the bay and asking the town or state to fix them, and teaching the public about dog waste. The group also had a new website laying out a three-year plan.
CPWB was created in 1981 to prevent private development of Washburn Island, South Cape Beach and the Quashnet River Valley. For years since, the main concern has been harder to see: nitrogen from septic systems and road runoff feeds algae that smother eelgrass, and the bay has suffered summer fish kills. The 2015 goals of protecting and restoring water quality still guide CPWB, and the runoff and dog-waste items live on in its storm drain adoption and dog waste bag programs.
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