Could all Nantucket ponds be as clean as Clark's Cove Someday?

unfortunately the ponds are not in our bread basket..nobody really cares.  The water quality issue as it relates to development and landscaping will probably be addressed because of the degradation of the harbor/ scallop industry. That is what will get people to act eventually, I hope, the ponds will benefit as a sidebar.

There are lots of people with half a brain looking at this issue. Unfortunately some of our fellow community members are looking at the problem with their greedy, evil, selfish half and are not listening to their benevolent, intelligent, caring half. We have a landscaper who got onto SHAB with a handful of write-in votes last April so he could influence the vote on water quality away from a ban on certain kinds of fertilizers. The same landscaper missed being appointed to the FinCom by one vote. Thank goodness more caring heads prevailed. 

The forces against changing our ways need to be shouted down by the community. And the community, as we all know, will only begin to shout when they are sufficiently outraged. So we need numbers, charts, graphs and compelling reason to act. At this point, I do not see a significant level of outrage. 

G. 

we can study and graph the situation till the cows come home but anyone with half a brain and who  can remember back a few years could see the corrolation between development and water quality.  once again money buys exceptions that affect us all.  I'd bet most of the mansions with expansive Newportesque  lawns that now surround our  ponds are listed on the tax rolls as 3 bedrooms and 6 family rooms...because it gets builders/owners around all sorts of pesky codes with a  wink nod.  the value of this study for me is  that it could give us leverage to make those responsible clean up their act...I don't accept the "We" need to fix this in this equation. and the next time we are able to vote to address nitrates and landscapers, we will act.

Excellent article.

Maybe a graph could include all the ponds' data for comparison.