Assessment of Water Quality in Pleasant Bay, Massachusetts - Cadmus How Cadmus provided a community with the necessary information to make an important decision about its natural environment. Pleasant Bay is an estuarine system located on Cape Cod in the towns of Orleans, Chatham, Harwich and Brewster, Massachusetts. The Pleasant Bay Alliance was formed in 1998 to oversee the implementation of a resource management program developed by the four towns, which includes a bay- wide water quality monitoring program. Challenge: The Patriots’ Day storm of 2007 caused a “break” in Nauset Beach, resulting in an increased tidal range and volume of waterexchanged with the Atlantic Ocean. This increase in the rate and volume of water exchanged between the bay and the ocean is expected to influence wa

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