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Falmouth leaders call for committee to design fair financing for mandated water-quality work

Falmouth Board of Health (joint meeting with Select Board) · February 11, 2026
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Summary

At a joint meeting, the Board of Health urged the Select Board to form a committee to develop an equitable plan for paying for state-mandated sewer and denitrifying septic projects that could cost the town over $1 billion in coming decades.

The Falmouth Board of Health urged the Select Board on Thursday to form a committee to design a fair way to share the costs of state-mandated water-quality improvements, saying the town faces very large capital needs that will be borne unevenly by homeowners.

“Falmouth is gonna be implementing the water quality mitigation projects that the Commonwealth mandated… The comprehensive set of costs related to all those watershed plans is likely to be more than 1000000000 dollars,” a board member said, summarizing the scale of the town’s expected fiscal exposure. Board members described a mix of…

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