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, âWQMC Proposal for Sewer Outfall Pipeâ which included:
⢠a link to Wastewater Superintendent Amy Lowellâs presentation to the WQMC on 4/3/23 âOcean outfall as the preferred effluent disposal alternativeâ, and
⢠17 questions by FHMNA members at our August 5, 2023 Annual Meeting to our guest speaker Steve Rafferty, Chair of the Water Quality Management Committee (WQMC), and his answers.
For anyone interested in the outfall pipe issue, we recommend reading the above linked letter even if you read the September 25 email because the letter includes more in-depth information in some instances and also shows 4 maps and a table which lists the depth in feet and distance from the shore of the discharge points of the 5 areas studied.
The questions/answers and the link to the handout will be made part of the Annual Meeting draft minutes to be voted for approval at the 2024 Annual Meeting.
Within the next week, FHMNA will email our members and post on our website an update regarding the proposed funding which is scheduled to go before the Town Meeting on November 13, 2023. Both the Falmouth Finance Committee and the Select Board have recommended approval of $750,000 for an outfall pipe that would discharge “tertiary treated” wastewater into Vineyard Sound underneath the Kite Park in Falmouth Heights.