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MINUTES April 12, 2001 2 BOARD OF HEALTH APPOINTMENT: Copestick/DeBarrows re: Illegal Dumping Ms. Tanya Copestick, Mr. Michael Mattos and Mr. Steven DeBarrows were in attendance for this scheduled appointment. Ms. Warden stated that this item was continued from the last meeting in order to allow Mr. DeBarrows to attend. Mr. DeBarrows removed the trash from Ms. Copestick's residence twice a week and denies dumping any trash on Noisy Hole Road. Ms. Copestick also denies dumping the trash. Mr. Doherty stated that someone has to take responsibility. The Board cannot accept the explanation that the owners of the trash don't know how it got there. Mr. Doherty further stated that your trash is yours from "cradle to grave" and that you have the responsibility to be sure that it is disposed of properly. Discussion took place regarding reducing the fine in exchange for Ms. Copestick picking up an equal amount of trash as was found. Mr. Ball motioned to rescind the fine imposed previously by the Board in lieu of Ms. Copestick picking up one bag of trash within the next 30 days. Mr. Doherty seconded the motion. Motion passed. APPOINTMENT: George Heufelder re: septic repairs Mr. Heufelder of the Barnstable County Department of Health and the Environment was in attendance for this scheduled appointment. Mr. Heufelder stated, "As you know, we had started a while ago going through the alternative septic systems primarily to try to put together a database and collect them so that we could start to get those who own alternative septic systems off on the right foot. To make sure they have their contract, make sure they are doing the monitoring they should be and in turn, make sure the state gets the data so the information on these systems could be compiled so we can start to know which systems are working and which aren't. In the process of doing that, we noticed a lot of irregularities. However, Ronnie has gone through a lot of the policy things we thought might be a little bit off Title V and has corrected a number of those things. Primarily what I'd like to do tonight is go right through the alternative septic systems that you are going to have in town. You remember a couple of years ago when the Cape Cod Commission had recommended that you pass a regulation requiring that all new septic systems be alternatives. You may remember that at that time I spoke out somewhat in opposition to that simply because we didn't know which ones worked and I wasn't sure whether you wanted to hit that nail with that particular hammer." "The first thing I'd like to go over is sort of some of the common permitting problems that we see with alternative septic systems, not only the Mashpee situation but in Falmouth we've had to go through this same thing. One of the most common ones is when an alternative septic system is presented before you on a plan, I think it behooves the Board to make sure that the applicant understands the obligations that go along with it. DEP, on every alternative septic system, requires that a contract be in place for the entire life of the system. Each of those contracts is a minimum of one year alone. In essence, that protects you as a Board of Health because these folks have to have a maintenance contract. If people knew that up front, you would have a