CAUTION ENTERING THE WATER
The massive blue-green algal bloom impacting Oyster Pond is not going away despite our initial efforts working with the Town to increase the outflow of Trunk River. The bloom [...]
2016 OPET Annual Meeting
“From A to Zika, Mosquito Control on Cape Cod - What you need to Know” is the title of the featured talk at the Oyster Pond Environmental Trust’s (OPET) [...]
2016 Newsletter
2016 OPET Newsletter The Headwaters of Oyster Pond - An Exciting Update by Wendi Buesseler Flushing Oyster Pond to Improve Water Quality by Bill Kerfoot Fixing Trunk River and [...]
2015 OPET Annual Meeting
Fairy shrimp, wood frogs and spotted salamanders seem like mythical creatures, but these are some of the real animals that depend on vernal pools. Come learn about these ephemeral [...]
2015 Newsletter
2015 Newsletter OPET Receives $500.000 grant from the MA EEA Thank you to the following donors who have contributed to the acquisition of the Headwaters of Oyster Pond A [...]
Pond Watcher Reports
Reports of Citizen Volunteer Monitoring of Water Quality in Falmouth's Coastal Ponds March 1990 -Results from 1987 & 1989 April 1991 - Results from 1990 April 1992 - Update [...]
2014 Newsletter
2014 Newsletter Help Us Save the Oyster Pond Headwaters A Message from the OPET President Wastewater Treatment Options for Oyster Pond Area under Consideration
2013 Newsletter
2013 Newsletter Is your Home in the New FEMA Flood Zones Town of Falmouth assists Oyster Pond Fertilizer Bylaw Update Friends of OPET Are you ready for Hurricane Season? [...]
Oyster Pond contains a Special Sedimentary Record
Perhaps you saw this strange looking vessel zooming over the pond a few years ago. It was IRIS (Independently (or) Remotely Influenced Surveyor) from the USGS Woods Hole Science [...]
Hurricane Sandy and Oyster Pond
We are extremely fortunate that Sandy delivered only a glancing blow to Falmouth and Oyster Pond. Top wind gusts reached about 63 mph. The storm surge was more dramatic. [...]