From the Falmouth Enterprise · February 28, 2025 · By Katie Nelson
MassDEP’s draft 2025 plan for the Clean Water State Revolving Fund, the low-interest loan program towns use to build sewers, proposed a $50 million cap per applicant and an end to carrying funding forward for projects that take several years, so towns would have to reapply each year. The Falmouth Enterprise reported that the Water Protection Fund’s executive committee, made up of town managers and select board members from around the Cape, met Feb. 24, 2025, said it had received little notice, and unanimously backed a letter of opposition to MassDEP Commissioner Bonnie Heiple.
Falmouth, which is carrying out a wastewater plan the state approved in 2023, expected to seek first-phase construction money that spring, and a town water quality committee member said multiyear projects like Falmouth’s were his chief concern. The article said the change could slow wastewater work Cape-wide. MassDEP set a public hearing for March 3.
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