Comments on: 1,000 Dead Fish on Cape Cod: When Will the Killer be Brought to Justice?

By: Cleaner water could help you beat the heat! | CLF Scoop

Cleaner water could help you beat the heat! | CLF Scoop — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 13:30:59 +0000

[...] across New England, from Cape Cod to Lake Champlain, wastewater pollution, polluted runoff from parking lots and streets, and manure [...]

By: mahmoud

mahmoud — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 00:25:01 +0000

Change has a considerable psychological impact on the human mind. To the fearful it is threatening because it means that things may get worse. To the hopeful it is encouraging because things may get better. To the confident it is inspiring because the challenge exists to make things better.

By: Elise Hugus

Elise Hugus — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 13:00:45 +0000

People may be interested to know that the DMF tested the fish found in Buzzards Bay in late August and ascertained that they had been dumped. Independent scientists verified that the dissolved oxygen content of the water was not low enough to create a fish kill. While nitrogen is indeed a serious problem, and this incident should probably be studied over time, it’s best not to jump to conclusions. See the Falmouth or Bourne Enterprise of August 28.

By: Brian Braginton-Smith

Brian Braginton-Smith — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 16:28:03 +0000

The crisis was all forseeable, I personally began my cruisade almost 2 decades ago as I watched the water quality in the bay where I grew up suffer from non-point source pollution. My fear was that someday if this continued we would see fish kills and algae based nightmares. The response from most officials that I went to with our crisis, was to dismiss our concerns with the comment that we didn’t know what we were looking at and that we needed the science to prove there was a problem. They all believed that there wasn’t a problem. Now there is no avoiding the issue, unfortunately for countless aquatic species. I finally realized that no-one else was taking this seriously and that it just had to be done.

We did document the science independently through the Lewis Bay Research Center, which I am proud to report received no local, state, or federal support in our efforts only private donations from other concerned citizens. And now the most definitive proof is being brought for by mother nature herself.

Now we are moving on to help grassroot community efforts streamline the process and save money on the solutions which will be critical as we move toward progress. Our belief is that we must deal with the ecosystems in a holistic, watershed based way. The reason we are in this trouble is because the old systems had failed, it’s time for a more enlightened approach. Unfortunately, many of the people we look to for the answers are just pulling the same old books off the shelf, and that’s how we got into the problem.