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County seeks additional Clean Water Trust funds for septic replacements and sewer connections
Summary
Barnstable County authorized a supplemental appropriation to seek renewed Massachusetts Clean Water Trust funding for its Aquafund program, which supports septic replacements and last‑mile sewer connections; staff estimated multi‑year demand of thousands of connections and costs in the low hundreds of millions.
Barnstable County commissioners voted Feb. 11 to authorize a supplemental appropriation and to introduce an ordinance seeking renewed Massachusetts Clean Water Trust loan authority for the county’s Aquafund program, which finances septic system replacements and sewer‑connection work across Cape Cod.
Brian Baumgartel, director of the Wastewater Division, told commissioners that since a prior borrowing of…
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