The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has approved a petition to designate the coastal waters of Outer Cape Cod as a “No Discharge Area.” This designation means that the Towns of Chatham, Orleans, Eastham, Wellfleet, Truro, and Provincetown are protecting their coastal water quality from boat sewage pollution by prohibiting the discharge of treated and untreated boat sewage into coastal waters.
The action results from EPA approval of a request by the Massachusetts Coastal Zone Management to designate Outer Cape Cod waters. The Outer Cape waters join already established no discharge areas for all Cape Cod Bay waters, as well as all Massachusetts coastal waters north to New Hampshire. With this designation of Outer Cape Cod waters, now boats may not discharge treated or untreated sewage into any coastal waters of Massachusetts from the New Hampshire state line south to Chatham.
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