Selectmen Drop Earth Tech Engineers in Sharp Dispute Over Money
Issues; Rhode Island Company Gets Nod
By JONATHAN BURKE
Tisbury selectmen voted unanimously Tuesday night to terminate the
town's relationship with its wastewater engineers and to jump to
another firm on the eve of the town's largest municipal project in
decades.
Confronted with a fee hike request from Earth Tech, the selectmen
decided to move forward with the engineering firm of BETA Group Inc.,
based in Lincoln, R.I.
Wastewater System in Tisbury Places Limits on Town Growth
By JONATHAN BURKE
The day Tisbury's new wastewater system goes online next year,
it will be running at its full capacity. That's right: No headroom
or provision for growth has been designed into the municipal system now
under construction in the Island's main port town.
This means that a homeowner will not be allowed to add a bedroom and
a restaurant owner will not be allowed more tables unless such expansion
would have been feasible under Title V septic regulations.
