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Falmouth water committee broadens charge to focus on estuary water quality, public input
Summary
The Town of Falmouth Water Quality Management Committee rewrote its charge to emphasize improving estuary and coastal water quality, act as a public forum, and advise the select board and town staff on watershed management plans.
The Town of Falmouth Water Quality Management Committee spent the bulk of its recent meeting reworking its official charge, agreeing to shift the focus from a narrow comprehensive wastewater management plan to a broader mandate on improving estuary and coastal water quality.
Committee Chair Steve Refford opened the discussion by reading the committee’s original 2011 charge and asking members to decide whether that language still reflected the committee’s work. “The committee's primary role is to serve in an advisory capacity to the select board,” Refford said as the group began revising the opening paragraphs.
Members spent more than an hour debating wording and scope, with several arguing the committee should…
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