145Environmental Impact Analysis and Assessment
selection process contributed to the acceptance by the CAC in general and
the representative from the closest town in particular.
After the ROD was issued and even after review by the courts, an issue
surfaced with the residents of Cape Cod. The Cape Cod communities were
more than 40 kilometers from the selected outfall location but they were con-
cerned that the discharge would affect their beaches and marine mammals
in the area. Reports and presentations by the EIS team and supporting scien-
tists, gleaned from the studies supporting the EIS, did little to convince the
more skeptical and less rational elements in the Cape Cod communities. They
would not initially accept that adequate analysis ...