From the Falmouth Enterprise · October 23, 2025 · By Katie Nelson
On October 20, 2025, after about a year of drafting, Falmouth’s Board of Health voted unanimously to require the best available nitrogen-reducing septic technology whenever new construction or a flow increase occurs in the town’s nitrogen-regulated areas. Those areas include MassDEP’s nitrogen-sensitive areas and other waters on the state’s impaired list, and after a September hearing the board added Great Sippewissett Marsh and the drinking water protection district.
New construction in future sewer areas is exempt only if sewer design funding is already secured when permits are issued. The rules took effect November 15, 2025, and board members expect to revisit them often as watershed plans and sewer areas take shape. Because Waquoit Bay is nitrogen-impaired, the rules apply to new building in Falmouth’s part of its watershed.
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