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Falmouth officials outline expanded monitoring, permitting schedule for proposed ocean outfall
Summary
Wastewater superintendent Amy Lowell told the Select Board the town has expanded eelgrass and benthic baseline monitoring for a two‑year program, completed marine permitting steps for borings and engaged USGS aquifer modeling; regulators require broader control areas and the town will seek supplemental funding for increased survey scope at November town meeting.
Wastewater Superintendent Amy Lowell briefed the Select Board on the town’s multi‑year plan to collect environmental baseline data and secure permits for a proposed ocean outfall intended to reduce nitrogen loading from sewered neighborhoods.
Lowell said the town has stood up a regulatory review team with state agencies (DEP, CZM, DMF, EPA, US Army Corps and Water Management Act personnel) and that regulators asked the town to expand its initial eelgrass and benthic survey area to include control sites outside the expected outfall influence. "We had to almost double the area that we will be surveying," she said, and that increase has raised baseline…
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