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Crane Beach Opens Sustainable Bathhouse!

1 2 3 ► Crane Beach in Ipswich, MA has been a landmark in the coastal Northeast for close to a century. Families have flocked to this gorgeous beach for decades. Operated and maintained by The Trustees of the Reservations as a recreation spot, it is also a conservation area that serves as the home of a wildlife refuge and the nesting grounds for the endangered piping plover. With the old restrooms and septic system

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Crane Beach Begins Sustainable Construction

Crane Beach in Ipswich, MA has been a landmark in the coastal Northeast for close to a century.   Operated and maintained by The Trustees of the Reservations as a recreation and conservation area, it is also the home of a wildlife refuge and the nesting grounds for the endangered piping plover. With the old restrooms and septic system nearing their end of life the Trustees sought to rebuild using state of the art, environmentally friendly

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Erving State Forest gets its first Clivus restrooms

Campers at the Laurel Lake Recreation Area and Campground located in Erving State Forest will find a refreshing change!  The decades-old, pit-privy toilets have been replaced with modern Clivus restrooms. In keeping with its mission statement to conserve and preserve, MA Dept. of Conservation and Recreation had three self-contained composting toilet systems installed at this recreation area.  The new toilets use no water, are solar powered, release no pollutants, and are hygienic and odor-free.  Composting

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Protecting RI’s shoreline with Clivus

Protecting the RI Shorelines with Clivus Composting Waste Treatment Systems Over the years the State of Rhode Island has identified areas that it deems critical resource areas, regions that are particularly sensitive to the detrimental effects of nutrients such as nitrogen, pathogenic organisms, organic chemicals and other substances that may be present in effluent from onsite wastewater treatment systems.  These regions are groundwater recharge zones that include salt ponds and drinking supply watersheds. With the

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Sustainable Cape Cod: New Tools & Practices for Clean Water & Community Benefit

On Monday and Tuesday, October 22 and 23, the Cape Cod Commission and Water Alliance will host a conference to educate the general public about clean water practices to benefit our communities. Clivus New England will be on hand to show how Clivus composting systems and greywater filters can lower or eliminate nitrogen and phosphorus levels in wastewater to help preserve our wetlands and water supplies.  A working model of the Nepon foam-flush toilet will

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