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MINUTES March 24, 1999 4 BOARD OF HEALTH Approve minutes of March 10, 1999 meeting. Mr. Ball motioned to accept the minutes of March 10, 1999. Mr. Cram seconded the motion. Motion passed. 3. Memo re: Passover from Town Clerk. Mr. Ball motioned to cancel the Board meeting on March 31, 1999 due to the Passover holiday. Mr. Cram seconded the motion. Motion passed. 4. Emergency failure certification: 51 Great Neck Road North. Board members forwarded their signatures to the "Emergency Failure Certification" form. Emergency failure certification: 186 Fells Pond Road. Board members forwarded their signatures to the "Emergency Failure Certification" form. 5. Variance request: 288 Simons Narrows Road (revised plans). Mr. Joseph Harvey, agent for the applicant, is requesting variances from the minimum separation distance between a well and soil absorption system as follows: 10' from the well on Lot 4, 42' from the well on Lot 41, 37' from the well on Lot 42 and 102' from the proposed well on Lot 3. Also being requested is a variance of 46'from the proposed well on Lot 3 to the leaching area on Lot 41 and 38' from the proposed well for Lot 3 to the leaching area on Lot 41. Mr. Ball motioned to grant the variances as requested by Mr. Harvey. Mr. Cram seconded the motion. Motion passed. 6. Voluntary upgrade: 82 Wheeler Road. Mr. McQuaid stated, "Mr. Herbst had a full Title V plan drawn up by DeFeo- Wait back in 1996 and he was hoping to become part of a pilot program instituted by WBNERR (Waquoit Bay National Estuary Research Reserve) on innovative new systems. They had this entire plan drawn up, I believe, at no cost to him. It included the pump chamber and the trickling sand filtered alternative system. This did not get approved as part of the pilot study. He now wants to modify this 10-page plan to what each member has been given. The tank and pump chamber have been slightly relocated, going up to a distribution box and then into two 500-gallon dry wells which would suffice to handle the _. He's asking for us to consider this an emergency failure where he wouldn't need a full new set of engineering plans. The fact is his system has been pumped three times in 12 months. It's not a true emergency where his existing cesspool is overflowing or he can't live in the house. But, it's a failed septic system based on pumping history." Mr. Cram noted, "Based on past experiences of what the Board and its agents have done, I'd like to see an engineered plan on this." Mr. McQuaid recommended, "Why don't we approve the plan as submitted, but ask for an engineer to do the final inspection of the tank, pump system and leach field. In other words, have them fill the tank, turn the pump on, make sure it pumps up there and make sure it hits the leach field."