Danger blooms in Cape Cod ponds

On the afternoon of July 11 the beach at Gull Pond was empty: no chairs in the sand, no children doing cannonballs and belly flops from the dock. “CLOSED, NO SWIMMING,” a sign read. “Swimming May Cause Illness.”

This is the story of how our addiction to fossil fuels is beginning to make some ponds unsafe even for swimming.

(Published Aug. 9, 2019 in The Provincetown Independent.)