FHMNA President Dave Buzanoski emailed the Falmouth Select Board the following letter along with the Boston Globe article of November 14, 2023 entitled, âCape Cod residents say no to offshore wind transmission lines under beachesâ. To the Select Board, As you may be aware Barnstable held a public meeting Tuesday night for residents to discuss …
On Monday, November 13, 2023, the Falmouth Town Meeting passed Article 3 which included two items: â$150,000 from Title V Fund for Outfall Data Collectionâ and âOutfall – Data Collection and Permitting Phase 1 WASTEWATER 850,000â (see Warrant pages 5 & 6). During the discussion of this Article, one Town Meeting Member proposed an amendment …
On November 7, 2023, FHMNA President Buzanoski received a response to his letter of October 23, 2023Â to Michael Judge, Undersecretary of Energy and Environmental Affairs for the Commonwealth of MA, regarding our concerns about SouthCoast Windâs Proposed Cables Through Falmouth Heights. Click here to read Undersecretary Judgeâs response.Â
On October 23, 2023, FHMNA President Dave Buzanoski, with input from the Board of Directors, sent the following letter on FHMNA stationary to Michael Judge, Undersecretary of (MA) Energy and Environmental Affairs with copies to: ⢠Maura Healey, Governor of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts ⢠Susan Moran, Senator, Plymouth and Barnstable District ⢠David Viera, …
The Falmouth in the Fall Road Race is Sunday, 11/5/23 beginning in Woods Hole at 11 AM with participants racing to the Finish Line at Falmouth Heights. There will be approximately 850-900 runners. The start area on Water St. will be closed for a very short time just before 11 until the three runner ‘pulses’ …
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 âOutfall Pipe vs. Goundwater Dischargeâ. …
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, âWhy is an outfall better for Falmouth than groundwater discharge?â. 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 âFalmouth’s Nitrogen Cleanup Plans Begin To Take Shapeâ 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 …