Two Birds With One Tiny House – Editorial (5/24/24)
Two Birds With One Tiny House – EditorialThe Falmouth EnterpriseMay 24, 2024 The town is facing two major problems, and the solution to one often exacerbates the other: wastewater and affordable housing. Unless a development is on the town sewer, opposition to affordable housing (whatever other motives may be in play) can legitimately be grounded […]
Falmouth Moves Forward With Study To Answer Questions About Urine Diversion Pilot (5/23/24)
Falmouth Moves Forward With Study To Answer Questions About Urine Diversion PilotThe Falmouth EnterpriseNoelle AnnonenMay 23, 2024 The select board this week approved an agreement with the Massachusetts Alternative Septic System Test Center for a urine-diversion feasibility study. The study aims to provide answers to questions Town Meeting voters had about a urine-diversion pilot project, […]
Capewide Events Will Offer Coastal Resilience And Smiles (5/23/24)
Capewide Events Will Offer Coastal Resilience And SmilesThe Falmouth EnterpriseTao WoolfeMay 23, 2024 In hopes of arming Cape residents with practical knowledge about coastal resilience—while showing them a good time—the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Sea Grant will sponsor a series of events across the Cape in June. “The Cape Cod Coastal Resilience project is aimed […]
Falmouth Is Losing Eelgrass. An Expert Explains Why That Matters (8/17/23)
Falmouth Is Losing Eelgrass. An Expert Explains Why That Matters Falmouth Enterprise Gilda Geist August 17, 2023 Eelgrass has many ecological virtues. Its tall, slender blades and strong roots sequester carbon, shelter young fish, make oxygen and clean the water column. But nitrogen pollution has been killing eelgrass in Falmouth’s estuaries for decades, so long […]
Cape Cod Community College To Install Eco-Toilet After Falmouth Considers Eco-Toilets (6/24/22)
Cape Cod Community College To Install Eco-Toilet After Falmouth Considers Eco-Toilets The Falmouth Enterprise June 24, 2022 Gilda Geist Cape Cod Community College is installing and pilot testing a closed-loop treatment system toilet. This toilet will be the first commercial application of its kind in North America and provides an environmentally-friendly alternative to other waste […]
Falmouth Water Quality Group Examines Alternative Septic Systems (12/24/19)
The Falmouth Enterprise By STEVEN WITHROW Dec 24, 2019 Falmouth Water Quality Group Examines Alternative Septic Systems The Falmouth Water Quality Management Committee earlier this month brought in three guest speakers to give an update on the state of innovative/alternative, or I/A, nitrogen-reducing septic systems. Chairman Eric T. Turkington said sewering the entire town to […]