Category: Public comment
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Advice to the Barnstable Clean Water Coalition
Below are our recommendations for using advanced ecological water and nutrient strategies in the watershed planning and modeling for Three Bays watershed in Barnstable, Massachusetts. The situation The average adult resident of Three Bays watershed eats about a ton of food per year. Almost all of that food is imported onto the Cape in trucks. […]
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All we are saying: Give oysters a chance
The following was written by Ron Smolowitz, a Falmouth farmer and member of the Citizens for Ecological and Economic Sustainability addressing Question 1 on Falmouth’s May 20, 2014 ballot. There are many reasons one can be “against” sewers: they are expensive to construct and maintain and they use a lot of drinking water and energy […]
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“Proven” doesn’t equal “good”
The following was written by Hilde Maingay and published as a letter to the editor in the Falmouth Enterprise, May 2, 2014. Have you heard it over and over? “We have to sewer the densely populated areas. We can only rely on “proven” sewer technology to clean Little Pond.” But just because sewers are a […]
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Environmental Justice Missing in Falmouth CWMP
The following comments were written by Hilde Maingay, read in the Cape Cod Commission’s public hearing on the Falmouth Comprehensive Wastewater Management Plan on 12/4/13 and submitted to MEPA in December. Hilde is a board member of The Green Center and the Falmouth Climate Action Team and Citizens for Economic and Ecological Sustainability. Since September 2013 she has also […]
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Falmouth’s CWMP: Not so comprehensive
The following are Earle Barnhart’s comments on the Town of Falmouth’s Comprehensive Wastewater Management Plan. He expressed these thoughts to a hearing held by the Cape Cod Commission on December 4, 2013 and submitted them to the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection as part of its review process. Introduction My name is Earle Barnhart, and […]
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