as much nitrogen as the samplers nearest to me, further away from the road. about, oh, 150 yards from the road. narrator: before the study at the woods hole research center, there was little understanding of the amount of nitrogen pollution coming from traffic. stone: because there's a limited amount of land area on cape cod, the number of new roads is not very large, so the roads are used more intensively, and roads that were designed for maybe 10,000 cars per day now have 20,000 and 25,000 cars per day. there's really no place to build additional roads. dr. davidson: business as usual is not really an option. our economy is based upon having tourists wanting to come here and spend time here. they're not gonna come here if the estuaries are full of algae that smell rotten. so it's extremely important, and we're getting to a tipping point where we have to do something. and i think the same is true across the globe. dudley: we know that people are still gonna want to come to the cape and that growth is gonna continue, so what we're really interested in trying