As we gear-up for our 18th annual Buzzards Bay Coalition Watershed RIDE on October 6th, we asked 16-year veteran rider and former BBC Board member Drew Dimmick for his thoughts on the ride and what it means to him. 

Discover why Tony Williams, Director of Monitoring Programs, runs for clean water and how you can support Team Buzzards Bay in the 52nd running of the ASICS Falmouth Road Race.

Be sure to add Sunday, October 6th to your calendar, and cross the Buzzards Bay Watershed Ride off of your biking bucket list!

Ahead of upcoming holiday weekend, a warning of mounting pollution pressure on Buzzards Bay

BUZZARDS BAY SWIM CANCELLED DUE TO SEWER OVERFLOWS

The Buzzards Bay Coalition’s Horseneck Point Life-Saving station will soon welcome a new replica lifeboat from Newport’s IYRS School of Technology & Trades. The new replica is based on the Race Point Surfboat, the closest design to the original lifeboats that once patrolled the waters off Horseneck Point.

Results from the 2023 water quality monitoring season were released last month on our  website. Monitoring data is summarized into a Bay Health Index based on a score of zero to 100. Scores reflect the state of the Bay as a habitat for fish, shellfish, and other parts of its natural ecosystem; they do not include measures of bacteria that would indicate whether water is safe for swimming or the status of shellfish beds.

An anonymous donor has stepped forward with a $100,000 Matching Challenge to ensure that the Onset Bay Center would have a dedicated launch boat service for its 2024 summer season and to inspire others to invest in this special project.

The Coalition continues to focus on water quality across Buzzards Bay’s numerous harbors and coves, including New Bedford Harbor – the busy commercial port that hosts more than 400 fishing vessels and a burgeoning offshore wind energy industry. It’s also the only Bay harbor plagued with a chronic oil spill problem.