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Scituate wind turbine to stop spinning at night this summer
By Johanna Seltz Globe Correspondent,Updated March 12, 2021, 4:37 p.m.
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The Scituate wind turbine.
Responding to years of complaints from neighbors that they canât sleep at night because of the noise from the Scituate Wind turbine, the Scituate Select Board ordered the operation shut down at night â from 11 p.m. to 6 a.m. â from mid-May to mid-October.
The seasonal hiatus will cost the town about $96,000, according to data from Scituate Wind, the private company that owns and runs the 400-foot-tall turbine on town property under a contract with the town.
Questions have been raised over the recent delivery of replacement parts for the controversial wind turbines located just over the Bourne town line in Plymouth.
Delivery of the new parts was made via Head of the Bay Road, but some folks wondered why permission to use a town road was not secured from the Bourne Board of Selectmen. Others questioned the townâs integrity at allowing delivery through the town of parts to wind turbines that the Bourne Board of Health has called âa nuisanceâ that interfere with public health.
Notice of the delivery was posted at the Bourne Police Departmentâs Facebook page, advising residents that windmill blades were being delivered between the hours of 1 AM and 4 AM on Friday last week, February 12. The vehicles making the delivery went from Route 25 East to the East Rotary in Buzzards Bay and on to Head of the Bay Road to Keith Mannâs cranberry farm, where the wind turbines are located.
Offseason or not, Plymouth has always been one of my favorite places to go and take a waterfront walk.
There s always something going on, no matter the season, and, whether it s summer or winter, the views are lovely.
We hopped in the car on a recent cold-ish but sunny day, to go and get some refreshing winter air.
One of the conveniences of Plymouth is also how easy it is to get there. I always just take 44 from Middleboro (the rotary now being the trickiest part; I miss the single lanes). Plug in my old iPod Classic it is 14 years old and counting and follow that one lane almost the whole way. I ve had a fair bit of driving anxiety during this pandemic, since I m not really on the road all that much now, but this drive s still a piece of cake.