Letter from Chip Northrup
The Grass Isn’t Always Greener
We get our beach fix every year at the Cape. We bring our own water from Cooperstown because the Cape invariably runs low on fresh water by the end of the summer.
The only yards that are green are the ones that have their own water wells. Town water is curtailed. Over 80 percent of the houses are on septic and water wells. They learned years ago that the septic tanks discharge nitrogen and phosphates into the drinking water ponds, creating harmful algae blooms (HABs), so they now require septic systems to remove the nutrients from the septic discharge.
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