​Falmouth Taxpayers Asked Cough Up Another $120,000.00 For Wind Turbines

Falmouth Town Meeting November 6, 2017 ARTICLE 3: To see if the Town will vote to appropriate a sum of money to supplement the FY 2018 Budget approved by Article 18 of the April 3, 2017, Annual Town Meeting, or do or take any other action on the matter. On request of the Board of Selectmen.

RECOMMENDATION (Finance Committee): That the Town vote to raise and appropriate the amount of $120,000 for the purpose of funding line 01-440-5212 (wastewater Department electricity). To be expended under the jurisdiction of the Town Manager.

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The Town of Falmouth in May of 2013 voted to take down their two town-owned wind turbines.

The turbines are affecting up to 200 residential homes.

The neighbors describe the noise as torture from lack of sleep.

The vote to remove the wind turbines failed with 6,001 voting to keep the turbines and 2,940 voting not to remove them.

Falmouth is a town in Barnstable County, Massachusetts, the United States

The population is 31,532 as of the 2010 census.

Falmouth as of 2014 had 24,108 registered voters.

Less Than Half The Voters Showed Up To Vote On The Turbines.

Barnstable Superior Court Judge Cornelius Moriarty issued the order to shut down Falmouth’s Wind 1 and Wind 2 on June 21, 2017. The Massachusetts court judge agreed with the Falmouth Zoning Board the 110-decibel wind turbines are a nuisance.

In July the Falmouth Select Board voted not to appeal the decision. Selectboard Chairwoman Susan Moran Esq. said :“It’s time to put the matter behind us and move forward.”