Flax Pond image courtesy of Skip Caplan 

​The Brewster Ponds Coalition’s Neighborhood Outreach program partners with local neighborhood and pond associations to help them gain a better understanding of these beautiful, complex ecosystems.

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A neighborhood pond is both a great resource and a great responsibility.

​The BPC Neighborhood Outreach program can leverage and enhance your group’s efforts and help to expand them to a broad and long term environmental stewardship program in a non-regulatory manner.

Being a caretaker is the right thing to do: the sandy soils of the cape allow groundwater to flow into and out of ponds. Keeping your pond clean also keeps our sole source aquifer water clean and can be a personally transformative experience.

The BPC Outreach program:

• Builds a working partnership with your neighborhood group or pond association
• Works with you to understand your pond dynamics
• Helps you focus your pond association on water issues
• Instills a “Pond Caretaker” attitude in your neighborhood
• Explores how you as a neighbor can help 
• Grows BPC awareness and membership through our joint efforts

​​Like to learn more, volunteer or provide financial support for this program?  Click on one of the buttons below!

How we can help:

• Assemble available information on your pond from PALS and other available resources
• Provide consultative advice or referral to engineering resources
• Use our Citizen Science team to test your pond regularly
• Hold your donor funds in a tax-free account to be used for eligible remediation projects
• Build a Protection Plan for your pond
• Provide access to resources and educational events available to BPC members

Image courtesy of Dawn Walnut