Great Pond Under Pressure from Pollution

A s another summer opens, here we sit and watch as the coves of Edgartown Great Pond again breed their floating islands of glutinous algae, thriving on the cocktail of nutrients coming from the watershed. Are we faced with yet another summer of wading through stinking black goo to get to the pond?

Has anything changed since last summer? Have we learned anything?

I’ve polled some of the experts working on solutions, and here is what I have gleaned.