After years of delays, the Chilmark Pond Foundation is finally dredging Chilmark Lower Pond this month in an attempt to improve the pond's water quality.
In the battle to prevent further pollution of the Vineyard’s ponds, Island officials are eying a new way of disposing human waste: cutting-edge toilets.
Chilmark Pond has a new helper to monitor and preserve the approximately 200-acre waterbody that has been plagued by toxic bacteria blooms for the last several years.
The Chilmark Pond Foundation received approvals last week to place an ultrasonic buoy in the pond in an effort to beat back cyanobacteria blooms from forming.
Local scientists and advocates are undertaking new research and exploring new preservation efforts in an attempt to save Chilmark Pond, one of Martha’s Vineyard’s unhealthiest ponds, from harmful algal blooms.
A bloom near the bottom of middle Chilmark Pond was found on Tuesday, prompting the Chilmark board of health to issue a warning for people and pets to stay out of the water there.