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MINUTES January 15, 1998 3 BOARD OF HEALTH APPOINTMENT - Mr. Daniels -26 Melissa Avenue - Septic Upgrade W. Daniels was in attendance for this scheduled appointment. Mr. McQuaid relayed, "Mr. Daniels recently bought this property at 26 Melissa Avenue." "The septic system, upon transfer of property, was inspected and marginally passed, meaning that the cesspool was rootbound but the liquid level in the cesspool was less then 1' because the dwelling had not been occupied for some time." "When Mr. Daniels bought the property it was his opinion that the downstairs family room was not considered a bedroom therefore, he wanted to open up the garage and transfer the two car garage into a master bedroom." "He called me to go out and inspect the system." "I found it to be indeed rootbound, not in failure at the time of inspection but would obviously fail once the house was fully occupied." "I realized that even if I certified the system in failure, if he's increasing the habitable space our by-law states you have to have an engineer design an upgrade." "I informed the installer that we need an engineer to design the upgrade." "I spoke to Mr. Daniels about this and invited him before the Board." "It's in a non-wetland area." "I know what out policy is but I don't know if we have to enforce this in this instance." "I would recommend the installer design the repair/upgrade without having to go through an engineer." "The existing well that services the dwelling is 96' from the existing cesspool." "The upgrade would maintain a greater distance from the well." Mr. Daniels stated, "During the process I signed the offer to purchase and the Attorney that owned it wanted to sell it before the end of the year and I needed to before my Mother's operation and I had a chance to sell my house, get all my ducks in order so I figured a 330 gallon per day system I wouldn't have a problem." "I signed the purchase and sales after the home inspection, the termite inspection and everything else." "When my septic inspector came to do my house on 284 Simons Narrows Road I asked him to come over to Melissa Avenue because I couldn't find where anybody had dug up anything in the yard." "He came over and we dug around and finally found it and when we started to take the cover off there were a lot of roots on the top and I said to him I don't think this was dug up." Mr. Doherty questioned, "How can someone certify a system in working order when it never was looked at?" "Who did the first inspection?" Mr. McQuaid responded, "Mark DeDecko."