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401 Ocean State February 2023

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NO LOVE LOST ON ENVIRONMENTAL ACTIVISM Cape Cod and the SouthCoast of Massachusetts Homeowners Squabble with DEP over Septic Upgrades BY ROBERT WRIGHT

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ven the best relationships can quickly turn sour, which seems to be the case in communities that backed an organization with a self-proclaimed mandate to improve the coastline’s waterways. The issue behind the split between homeowners and state government, accompanied by discontent with the Buzzards Bay Coalition and its 31-year Baywatchers Program, the largest and longest-running volunteer-based coastal monitoring effort in New England, surrounds the fiscal burden taxpayers face if new Title 5 regulations go into effect in 2023.

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