Plans for the outfall pipe project were presented to FHMNA at our Annual Meeting on August 5th and are moving forward at a rapid pace. “Why is an outfall better for Falmouth than groundwater discharge?”, was handed out at the Annual Meeting and was emailed to members on 10/21/23 entitled “Outfall Pipe vs. Goundwater Discharge”. …
At our 2023 Annual Meeting on August 5, our guest speaker Steve Rafferty, Chair of the Water Quality Management Committee (WQMC), handed out a 6-page letter answering the question, “Why is an outfall better for Falmouth than groundwater discharge?”. On September 25, 2023, FHMNA emailed to our members and posted on our website the article, …
On 10/11/23, FHMNA President Dave Buzanoski emailed the following to Doug Brown (Falmouth Select Board SouthCoast Liaison) with copies to the Falmouth Select Board Chair Nancy Taylor, Vice-Chair Scott Zylinski, the Town Manager and the rest of the Select Board. As you are no doubt aware there has been a flurry of activity lately with …
As expected, SouthCoast Wind has now officially followed suit with Commonwealth Wind / Avangrid (Osterville project) in terminating their Power Purchase Agreements (PPA’s) with Massachusetts energy providers. The Massachusetts Department of Public Utilities (DPU) has now approved SouthCoast’s termination proposal as per the article below. The agreement to terminate the PPA contracts provides for penalties …
On 9/29/23, The Falmouth Enterprise printed an article “Falmouth’s Nitrogen Cleanup Plans Begin To Take Shape” by Gilda Geist on pages 1 & 12. Excerpts: The state Department of Environmental Protection passed regulations in June that require all Cape towns to start making progress toward cleaning up their impaired estuaries, which suffer from nitrogen pollution …
With reference to the recent local / public discussions regarding Falmouth Water Quality Management Committee’s (WQMC) proposal for a sewer effluent outfall pipe into Vineyard Sound, and more specifically with reference to WQMC chairman Steve Rafferty’s presentation at our August 5th annual meeting, please find below additional background information on this proposal and lastly a …
All comments are direct quotes from members. Members’ street addresses have been provided. To watch the entire road race, presented by FCTV on YouTube, click here. Worcester Avenue The largest issue concerning the RR is that as the thousands of runners who participate are either picked up by at least one car and are probably …
On 9/12/23, The Falmouth Enterprise posted an article online entitled “Falmouth Select Board OKs Funds For Ocean Outfall Permit Process”. In the 9/15/23 printed edition, page 1, the same article is printed entitled, “$550,000 OK’d For Ocean Outfall Data Collection”. Excerpts: “The Falmouth Select Board moved the town forward along the road to permitting and …
From The Falmouth Enterprise, 9/8/23, page 12, Despite Sewers, Nitrogen Still Polluting Little Pond. Excerpts: “Although the Little Pond watershed was sewered in 2016, the pond remains an impaired estuary. However, experts expect to see nitrogen reductions in the next few years, which should improve the health of the pond over time”. “’You may get …
From The Falmouth Enterprise, Friday, 9/8/23, page 13: “ “The MacDougalls’ Cape Cod Marine Service property at 145 Falmouth Heights Road sold for $15,555,384 on August 23 to ACME MacDougalls MA LLC, according to numbers published by the Warren Group LLC and the Barnstable County Registry of Deeds. No business representatives were available for comment …