Falmouth Turbines Now A Water Fiasco

Falmouth up until about ten years ago offered the quintessential Cape Cod way of life. If you’re on the fence about relocating to Falmouth, try looking around first at the wind turbines on the main highway before you get to town and when you get to town check out the ongoing drinking water problems.

Poor political leadership coupled with a one-sided news media with an agenda over the past ten years sank the Town of Falmouth. No matter how strong a town's function, goals, and market, the common denominator that can sink any town is poor political leadership. Ultimately, the success of a town rests upon its leaders; any issues a town has can typically be traced back to ineffective leadership.

Ten years ago the town installed two commercial wind turbines as part of the failed state land-based wind turbine agenda. The politicians at that time have warned the turbines were too loud at 110 decibels of noise each but chose to hide the documents from the voters. The town spent ten years in court fighting the taxpayers to achieve only a financial and health disaster. These politicians represent the interest of a failed agenda spending tax dollars on frivolous litigation.

The Massachusetts courts shut down both Falmouth town-owned wind turbines in 2017.
Also ten years ago the town had elevated levels of E. coli (poop) in the water. Today there is asbestos in the water samples. If you look at the various different colored water stains in the older sinks and toilets you might think twice about washing your hands before leaving never mind drinking the water.

Many ask why would you go and test the ponds for asbestos and not go around town taking water samples from the tap water. After all, in October of 2019, the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection did not find any asbestos pipes during its investigation of the Long Pond watershed, but the Falmouth Water Department officials confirmed they were left there. So how do you trust the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection who also brokered the loan on the town second wind turbine Falmouth Wind II?

Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection comes under the executive branch of government whatever the current governor says to do they do it. MassDEP is a political health fiasco stuck in regulatory capture.

When it comes to money they always need more and more and more. In Falmouth, you have to pay to go to the beach. If any project goes out to bid and Town Meeting approves the money you can bet the bill will be doubled. Falmouth High School is a perfect example.

How about that sewer project then at the last minute taxpayers had to have grinder pumps installed on their own property and then they have freezing problems when it gets cold.
Some say these health and financial fiascos were a cover-up. Undoubtedly the town omitted wind turbine warnings including maps, emails, letters and a study prior to construction of the turbines to help with the state renewable energy agenda. But the real problem is Beacon Hill calls all the shots in Falmouth.

The Massachusetts legislature along with the Massachusetts Clean Energy Center and other agencies and authorities offer grants and assistance to Falmouth. The town does what the state wants.

The Falmouth Select Board only has one function and that takes advice from the town attorney and then vote whatever the Beacon Hill politicians advised the town attorney to make. The board doesn't care what happens because the local news media going on the political agenda will tell taxpayers they need to appropriate more money.

The well never goes dry ? In a state of socialism, there is no privately owned property.

Most Massachusetts towns today hire municipal law firms who provide timely, accurate advice, and to help prevent local governments from making the types of "omissions and mistakes" that can perpetuate problems or cause damaging lawsuits.

Maybe there is so much to cover-up in the past ten years the town is stuck between a rock and a hard place?

The next town meeting you can bet on one thing for sure: More money for the wind turbines and increasing the water rates, so the department can put resources into the endeavor.

How much longer will six million tourists a year ask why the Falmouth wind turbines don't spin?