28 Jan 2025
Did you know MASSTC has been providing third-party independent testing of advanced onsite treatment and other devices since 1999?
If you have a product that you want research and development for, contact MASSTC's Deputy Director Sara Wigginton at sara.wigginton@capecod.gov.
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14 Jun 2024
Start learning the language of wastewater with the most recent issue of Massachusetts Alternative Septic System Test Center's newsletter the Alternative! conta.cc/4ckaz9D #capecodgov #masstc
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24 May 2024
Thanks to Friends of Ellisville Marsh, the Savery Pond Conservancy, 6 Ponds Improvement Association & the Oklahoma Department of Environmental Quality for stopping by MASSTC for a tour & a meet up with the Barnstable Clean Water Coalition over at Shubael Pond in Marstons Mills!
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23 Oct 2023
MASSTC Director Brian Baumgaertel and MASSTC microbiologist Sara Wigginton are at the @NOWRAUSA Onsite Management Conference in Virginia!
Getting so inspired by the speakers...
#wastewater #capecod #nowra #iasystems
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18 Oct 2023
MASSTC Decentralized WW treatment research facility. Field trip #RCAPConference2023 @RCAPInc @RCAP_Solutions @bcyoly28
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18 Oct 2023
MASSTC Decentralized WW treatment research facility. Field trip #RCAPConference2023 @RCAPInc @rcapsolutions
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11 Oct 2023
Check out this episode of County Chatter, where Brian Baumgaertel, Director of BCDHE's Wastewater Division, talks with Paula Hersey from @BarnstableGovernmentAccess about Barnstable County's Aquifund. 🔗 loom.ly/bZGRkik #capecodgov #masstc
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7 Sep 2023
"I had no idea that MASSTC was even here with all these experiments and its very encouraging that they are looking at and testing so many of these systems to help to remove the nitrogen." -Rachel Todoroff, Hyannis homeowner, on a recent MASSTC tour
#water #wastewater #capecod
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17 Aug 2023
Our virus work here at MASSTC is to understand HOW MUCH virus makes it through sand beneath leach fields at 5ft depth and shallower. This work informs whether or not it would be safe to build in places where there is not 5ft or more sand above groundwater.
#capecod #wastewater
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25 Apr 2023
TOMORROW💩 Join the MA Alternative Septic System Test Center (#MASSTC) staff on April 26th from 5:30 PM to 7:30 PM for a LIVE Potty Talk session, to learn about the basics of wastewater and ask questions in real-time! To register, visit masstc.org/potty-talk-live. #capecodgov #NCGM
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21 Apr 2023
On a recent MASSTC tour, we caught up with Kim Comart of the Falmouth Pond Coalition. "We need to have a bit of a shift in our thinking about our relationship with our environment...25 years ago who would’ve thought we could change our habits around recycling like we are now."
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13 Apr 2023
💩 Join the MA Alternative Septic System Test Center (#MASSTC) staff on April 26th from 5:30 PM to 7:30 PM for a LIVE Potty Talk session, to learn about the basics of wastewater and ask questions in real-time! To register, visit masstc.org/potty-talk-live. #capecodgov
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11 Mar 2022
Dramatic frosty sunrise at MASSTC. Photo courtesy Bryan Horsley.
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8 Nov 2021
MASSTC will be presenting on "Layer Cake" technologies during Session 1 of this webinar series.
4 Nov 2021
NEWEA's Innovation Council will be hosting a series of 3 free webinars addressing I/A onsite wastewater treatment technologies. Over a half dozen vendors will give brief presentations to introduce themselves & their promising solutions.
Reserve your spot: ow.ly/jeC350GGlPh
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27 Oct 2021
MASSTC is working with Barnstable Clean Water Coalition, @EPA, @USGS and others to deploy and monitor a neighborhood of advanced nitrogen removing septic systems. Check out the video on Youtube! loom.ly/Wl5ePPk
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26 Oct 2021
Join MASSTC, NEWEA, and Bad Martha Brewery for a Poo and Brew Tour on this Thursday! Guests will join in for a tour of MASSTC, followed by an (optional) brew at Bad Martha's Brewery in Falmouth. Register at NEWEA: loom.ly/rvXtr7Y
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21 Oct 2021
Busy day for @MBL_SES students (from left to right): doing coring at West Falmouth Harbor, testing effluent from different septic systems undergoing trials at MASSTC and Lilja Carden with Javier Lloret, doing her project at Waquoit Bay on mussel ecology.
ALT Ella Lemley-Fry and Bri Stevens doing coring at West Falmouth Harbor. James Yunzhang Hu, Sydney Russo, and Alice Ball at MASSTC testing effluent from different septic systems undergoing trials. And Lilja Carden and Javier Lloret, doing her project at Waquoit Bay on mussel ecology. Photo credits: Emma Daily
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10 Jul 2021
Isles of mint and basil growing in wastewater collected below septic system leach trenches - part of bioremediation experiments and wastewater reuse studies at MASSTC
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17 May 2021
Ever wonder what turns you birdbath pink? A species of algae called Haematococcus is the culprit. This photo is from a birdbath here at MASSTC. #microbiology
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20 Apr 2021
One of these beakers is filled with tap water and the other collected 4 ft. beneath a septic system leachfleld. Do we really want to call it wastewater ? MASSTC is investigating beneficial reuse strategies.
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