Article 19 focuses on the future of Yarmouth’s $207 million municipal sewer project, requesting $1.5 million for engineering and design work at the Bayberry Hills Golf Course. The funding is intended to expand the town's capacity for groundwater discharge, a critical component of the broader wastewater rollout.

The project involves utilizing treated effluent from the new wastewater plant for irrigation at the golf course. Town Administrator Robert Whritenour explained that the town's ability to process wastewater is strictly limited by its permitted discharge locations. What dictates how much wastewater treatment you can do is... the capacity that you have of permitted groundwater discharge locations in your community, Whritenour said.

This engineering work will provide the necessary disposal capacity for the first several phases of the town-wide sewer expansion. The effort aligns with the town's multi-year wastewater infrastructure rollout, which currently remains on schedule and on budget according to administration reports.