Wareham Planning Board approves farm-friendly solar-array on Wareham-Carver line
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WAREHAM – The Planning Board Monday approved its site plan review of a “dual-use” plan to blend a 7.3-megawatt solar-array field with active cranberry bogs on land straddling the Wareham-Carver border off North Carver Road.
Brett Meredith owns and continues to farm the land. The site that will be impacted is already cleared of trees so deforestation will not be necessary, according to proponents.
Meredith said the arrangement’s added revenue will allow him to continue farming.
The state’s Solar Massachusetts Renewable Target or SMART Program provides financial incentives for solar-array systems designed to allow a farm to continue working. The overall site is 110 acres, with 77 in Wareham and 33 in Carver.
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Wareham Planning Board wants legal opinion before vote on latest solar-array project
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WAREHAM – The Planning Board wants a legal opinion before voting on its site plan review of Borrego Solar Systems’ approximately 70-acre solar-array project at 140 Tihonet Road on land owned by A.D. Makepeace.
The town has a right of purchase refusal on agricultural land that received state tax breaks that is being converted to a non-agricultural use under the state’s Chapter 61A program.
The Planning Board had approved two site plan reviews for solar-array projects proposed by Borrego on Makepeace land late last year, including an approximately 60-acre parcel off 150 Tihonet Road in late last December and a 44-acre solar project off 27 Charge Pond Road last October.