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Falmouth officials call for committee to design fair financing for $1B‑plus water‑quality work
Summary
Select Board and Board of Health discussed forming a dedicated committee to design equitable ways to share the large, state‑mandated costs of sewering, treatment infrastructure and denitrifying IA septic systems; Board of Health warned the bill for mitigation could exceed $1 billion townwide over decades.
Select Board and the Board of Health met jointly on Feb. 9 to consider how Falmouth will pay for state‑mandated water‑quality improvements, from sewers and treatment work to thousands of denitrifying innovative alternative (IA) septic systems. Board of Health members urged the Select Board to form a standing committee to develop a consensus plan for distributing costs fairly across the town.
George Eufelder of the Board of Health told the Select Board the scale of required mitigation is “likely to be more than…
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