10/12/2017 BOARD OF HEALTH Minutes

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WT.OWiy Oro .�\ own of Mashpee 16 Great Neck Road North Mashpee, Massachusetts 02649 BOARD OF HEALTH - PUBLIC SESSION MEETING Mashpee Town Hall — Popponesset Meeting Room Minutes of the Meeting of October 12, 2017 Board Members Present: Member Absent: Also Present: Laurel Almquist, Co-Chair Brian Baumgaertel, Chair Glen Harrington, Health Agent Mallory Langler, Clerk Co-Chair Laurel Almquist called the meeting to order at 7:00 PM. APPOINTMENTS 7:00 PM — Municipal Hookups — Doug Karson/Rose Forbes (AFCEC). Doug Karson and Rose Forbes, of the Air Force Environmental Clean-up Program at Joint Base Cape Cod, introduced themselves to the Board and provided a thorough update on the clean-up efforts provided in Mashpee including updates on the chemical and fuel spills affecting the local ponds and cranberry bogs. Maps, charts, and hand-outs were provided to the Board and to Mr. Harrington. Progress continues to be made in the clean-up of the plumes from the Base affecting Mashpee. Mr. Karson remarked that he would like the Board's thoughts on reducing the frequency of sampling for Ashumet and John's Ponds. Mr. Karson is proposing to monitor the ponds every other year with yearly sampling taking place in April Mallory Langler made a motion that the Board of Health reduce the testing for John's Pond and Ashumet Pond to every other year with each pond-tested once yearly in April. If there are test results of any concern, it must be reported to the Board of Health. Laurel Almquist seconded the motion. The motion was unanimously approved. Mr. Karson went on to discuss municipal hookups. Several properties have been connected to Town Water at the expense of the Air Force. Twenty-three new area private wells have been researched and identified with possible PFC contamination. The results are pending and should be available soon. The Air Force has the resources to connect 15 additional properties to Town Water. For the past 18 months the Air Force has been providing bottled water to Lakeside Estates and working to connect the park to Town Water. For the past three weeks they have been performing the disinfection test on the water main. The individual connections cannot take place until it passes that test. The disinfection test finally passed today after seven attempts. Now the Air Force will be able to move forward and possibly complete the work within the next six weeks. The Mashpee Village public supply well is still inoperable because of PFC contamination. The Air Force has funding for this fiscal year to work with the U.S. Army Corps on a rapid response contract for well head treatment. The well is expected to be operational before next summer. 7.30 PM — Russell Lowe—Variance Request—Irrigation Well — 110 Wheeler Road.