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Falmouth Meetings Tonight 11-14-16 Wind Turbines Again
Heather Harper: "We took on a huge risk and I think we were successful but we're a large community and I think we can take on that risk,"
Massachusetts : Falmouth Town Meeting - Select Board Executive Meeting 11/14/2016
The Falmouth Select Board Meets In Executive Session At Falmouth High School at 6;15 To Discuss Wind Turbine Lawsuits
Following Falmouth Will Hold Its Annual Town Meeting
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Please keep in mind the Massachusetts Clean Energy Center in April of 2013 admitted the Falmouth noise mistakes in noise test protocols.
The Town is also had been warned in writing prior to the construction of the turbines August of 2010 that the turbines generate 110 decibels of noise. This is twice as loud as the the General Electric wind turbines used in the wind studies. GE refused to place wind turbines in Falmouth because of residential property and ice throw setbacks
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Assistant Town Manager Heather Harper in November of 2010 was Falmouth's Acting Town Manager. The month before, October 2010, she told Brewster officials the Town of Falmouth had gambled on installing megawatt wind turbines and said the community could take on risking taxpayer funds.
Here is the quote :“We took on a huge risk and I think we were successful but we’re a large community and I think we can take on that risk,”
Details on MassCEC’s April 2 Memo on Falmouth turbines
Credit: THE BULLETIN | Posted Apr 03, 2013 | www.wickedlocal.com ~~
Quote -click on links to read entire admission memo :
MassCEC also said there are unique circumstances in Falmouth, so a decision in that town would not set a precedent for others in the state.
“Falmouth Wind 1 was one of the earliest municipally-owned megawatt scale wind turbines installed in Massachusetts.
Even though the original MTC-commissioned feasibility study for Falmouth over-estimated the likely acoustic impact, that study did not include a detailed acoustic analysis based upon sampling of ambient acoustic conditions (as is our current, more rigorous practice) which might have identified a potential exceedance of the 10 decibel limit,” the memo reads.
“The Falmouth wind turbines are of an older design which does not offer ‘low noise operations’ or other retrofit options.”
https://www.wind-watch.org/news/2013/04/03/details-on-masscecs-april-2-memo-on-falmouth-turbines/
Source the THE BULLETIN | Posted Apr 03, 2013
