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MINUTES March 26, 1998 5 BOARD OF HEALTH *****NEW BUSINESS***** 376 Monomoscoy Road Mr. McQuaid relayed, "This letter came in yesterday from Mr. Kelly who resides at 376 Monomoscoy Road." "He is requesting an extension of his septic permit application which was submitted back in 1995." "There are significant problems with it, in so far as not indicating whether there are any abutting wells." `Back in August of last year I notified the owner that he must retain an engineer to determine the location of any abutting wells which hasn't been done." "The second concern I have is that this plan was done by ARO Engineering which is out of business." "Groundwater was encountered at 8.5' and there are proposing a pump system but there is no adjustment to the groundwater." "If this falls within 300' of ocean line then the adjustment is not necessary." Mr. Evans stated, "It is within 300' and will require adjustment." Mr. Cram motioned to deny the request for an extension based on inadequate plans,Mr. Doherty seconded, all agreed, Mr. Doherty seconded, all agreed. Request from Southport to sign-off on buildingin�Permits Mr. McQuaid stated, "Mr. McQuaid stated, "I was requested by Ronald Bonvie to forward a memo to the building department stating approval by the Board of Health for renewal of building permits for 109 units in Southport." "I reviewed this with the Building Inspector and the D.E.P.." "They have no problems in us renewing these building permits on the condition that no occupancy permits will be issued to Southport until D.E.P. grants final approval of their Wastewater Treatment Plant." Acknowledged. Meeting with SEMASS Mr. McQuaid stated, "I attended a meeting at SEMASS today." "The D.E.P. is requiring substantially more emissions control on mercury and they picked 28 p.p.b. as the limit where the Federal regulations are 80 p.p.b.." ``80 p.p.b. could be met with an additional tipping fee of not more than $4.00." "If the D.E.P. succeeds in reducing it to 28 p.p.b. it could be up to $30.00 per ton more on tipping fees." "We met at length in Plymouth about this and different methods of achieving this although the 28 p.p.b.