Helping to Protect Our Quality of Life on Cape Cod
WATER is the most precious natural resource we have
We have a great responsibility living above an aquifer!
What products you purchase for inside or outside of your home matters.
Everything that goes down your sinks, toilets, and laundry leaches though The Cape's sandy soil, it is said, a foot a day on average. Make wise choices!
2024
WOULD YOU LIKE TO HELP REDUCE PESTICIDES?
1 - Please sign the petition below:
https://www.change.org/p/protect-our-environment-reduce-pesticide-use-in-orleans-ma (https://www.change.org/p/protect-our-environment-reduce-pesticide-use-in-orleans-ma)
2 - Please click on EXPLORE to learn more about what Orleans is proposing to do to help reduce pesticide use:
3 - This video explains the importance of Pesticide reduction:
https://youtu.be/CqbWYwW4GV4
Our Mission
POCCA's mission is to educate residents, businesses and public agencies of Cape Cod how to keep our drinking water safe by eliminating the use of hazardous chemicals in our environment. We believe education is the key to the longevity of drinkable water. With a few simple shifts in our own daily routines, it will make all the difference!
We are fortunate our drinkable water is below us because it doesn't travel very far
but with that comes a greater responsibility of protection.
Will you join the mission to help protect water here?
Every day the choices you make matter, what you purchase, where you purchase and how much you use. If each of us would do 3 things every day, collectively we would make huge change: purchase foods and essentials at local farmers markets, this supports our next generations here, don't purchase anything toxic, we live above where we drink (shampoo, soaps, detergents, pesticides), and lastly recycle 100% or it will end up in an ocean. See our products page for more detailed information ~
President, Laura Kelley receives CIDC Award April 27, 2019, her speech:
Pruning Party with GOATS on Power Lines in Harwich Sept 11th ~
~ IT'S OUR WATER AFTER ALL ~
POCCA in National News on June 17, 2019 about helping Cape Cod:
https://www.ehn.org/the-uphill-battle-for-communities-that-ban-harmful-pesticides-2638803514.html
Please join the mission by lessening the amount of products
you purchase and use above our aquifer ~ Thank you!
This map below shows the depth to our drinkable water.
Cape Cod has 6 lenses, 5 are drinkable. The pink lines show where the ROW power lines are throughout Cape Cod, this is where Eversource uses herbicides to maintain vegetation over growth. There are other ways to protect electric wires that are cost effective and less toxic to our natural resources and thus, us. 17 Cape and MV towns have asked they don't use herbicides on our land.
~ Our Programs ~
The POCCA team educates about this important issue that affects us all: To prevent EVERSOURCE Energy from spraying herbicides along Rights-of-Way power lines on Cape Cod and Martha's Vineyard to keep vegetation from harming electricity but there are better ways. Watch this video, it shows what they are doing on our land despite 17 towns writing documents against it from occurring again.
POCCA team members love to come and present pertinent information about our water supply and environmental issues to your group. We offer meetings with informative speakers to discuss emerging contaminants and the hydrology of our aquifer to explain what’s going on below the surface and how important it is to us.
Learn how to lessen your impact on our aquifer by changing your every day habits! Visit the 'how you can help' page to see examples that are cost effective and simple solutions that will make a big difference in nature.
Thank you for your kind donation
