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MINUTES May 12, 1999 4 BOARD OF HEALTH family home has to put in a $15,000 system vs. a business that's going to cost half a million dollars to build anyway." Mr. Doherty asked, "How many single family homes are there in comparison to businesses though? And what's the cumulative effect of the single family home vs. commercial." Mr. Fudala continued, "That's the kind of thing that fits into what we're doing in terms of calculating the impacts of doing all of these alternatives. You are talking about something that is more of an interim solution, I think. I'm just saying that you can probably safely assume that you are not going to have an alternative to on-site denitrification units in a lot of areas like Route 151, Andy's Market area, Route 130 area. When you consider the Mashpee Commons area, there's a good chance that within the near fixture that they are going to be required to tie other people into their project under Cape Cod Commission requirements. It might not make sense to require denitrification units in that area." Mr. Doherty asked, "What's your timeline on the projects?" Mr. Fudala responded, "Once we get started, and that depends on when we get funding, it ll be a year and a half based on the consultants timetable. We expect to find out about the funding in September. If we don't get the loan, we're going to be back at October Town Meeting looking for Town money to do it. We're talking about the beginning of 2001 at this point for having a plan in place. This would be a wastewater facilities plan, which would then qualify us for getting state money for facilities. The plan is going to be a DRI and it's going to be subject to MEPA review. A lot of that timetable is actually the review process with MEPA and the Cape Cod Commission approving our plan." Mr. Ball stated, "I want to get this thing going. It's been in a stalemate for two years and it's getting ridiculous. Tom seems to agree that we do need something." Mr. Fudala added, "I don't see a down side to doing this. What could happen in the long term is that we could develop a sewer system in an area where someone already has a denitrification unit. In a case like that we can develop betterment charges into our regulations and then give an exemption in a situation like that." "We know we have a problem. Dr. Howes has clearly demonstrated that septic is the problem with what's getting into the bays." Mr. Doherty added, "My concern goes beyond that. The focus of your study seems to be the environmental health of the bay. I'm not saying it's not important." Mr. Fudala responded, "Exactly. That's what it's all about. That's the only thing it's about." Mr. Doherty continued, "Drinking water. We still have plenty of wells here in town. High nitrogen counts are a concern. We had a problem around Santuit