Selectmen Tuesday proposed to ask Fall Town Meeting to remove Agawam Beach and Mayflower Ridge from town's list of areas to be sewered. Those two areas are the final pieces in a decade long sewer expansion project.

"The purpose is to reallocate priorities for our sewering," Selectman Peter Teitelbaum said about the proposed modification to the town's Comprehensive Wastewater Management Plan.

The town's Wastewater Management Plan was created in 2002 to identify areas that needed to be sewered in order to reduce pollution and protect Wareham’s waterways.

Teitelbaum said the 2007 Special Town Meeting authorized the borrowing of up to $20 million for new sewering of certain areas in town. That new sewer contruction was split into three separate projects and Agawam Beach and Mayflower Ridge are the only two areas in the entire plan left to be done.

The project to extend sewer service to Agawam Beach and Mayflower Ridge was indefinitely postponed in June 2011 after its high cost and environmental concerns prompted vigorous neighborhood opposition.

"There aren't a ton of houses in these areas," Teitelbaum said. "To me, it doesn't make sense to go forward with these areas that are going to be extremely expensive for residents. We've heard estimates of between $30,000 to $35,000 per betterment."

He said the state Department of Environmental Protection told town officials these two areas were not high on their lists of places that could use new sewers going forward.

"I think it's time to take some action to rescind what we have left on the matter," Teitelbaum said.