1/22/1988 CONSERVATION COMMISSION Minutes

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Drainage Easement January ," 1988 ' Page 4. -Gene parr# Is there any plan for a control to- reduce that flow so that if there were a spillage lit could be held up before it- hit the pond,? Brogna+ That stud ► and' need could always be addressed at the approp- ' rlate time based, ori the actual ' design of., ver.ythin dor n radient -o •. the headwall - where the subsurface system bec'm'e exposed. Any sort o • norm- al .rip-rap type measures or any other erosion control measures could be taken. I think if someone were to walk the site today'.. they would think some kindf . ainten nee •work was needed and that" s . one the reasons - the license-- is requested so we at the b-as•e can maintain it as necessary in the future,. Bill artiros: I lire on the -water about 500 'feet from where that rut- .let. enters the pond; ne -.t to that ,2is the town .beach and then ' you have the .flume which carries that, -water out - o vashnet- -River and ends up in a uo1 day.* Yo`-hale stud i es that say the ester runo from roads etc. , is very harmful to shellfish :and the question ask is not what you propose to dp but why should you ' 'doing this to Johns Pond and •-. shumet when yo " have 22, 000 acres where you c'ah dispose of water .rather than contaminating dur• water where the publ-ic is using i.t for fishing, -bathing, whatever. Brgna: When you look at the natural -con - tours of that portion. of the • wase and you look at the most effective' ,means to control the water runoff federal • dol lars • are an - important f question here. You- look at -something that- can be • designed in ac or an with Sood engineering .practices and principles and accomodate the de.— which public law and- engineer-ing law will- allow you to do. This is something which seems to be a relatively straight- forward situa,t.ion - v that normal design of an oil/water separator and design of road cr;oss� = .-i-ngs can be done to provide for the easy runoff o f- the water. Bill Mart i ros= we' re talking about do l l ars andts here rather than,,, contain-inating, one area is co pletely:.pol luted, '.the whole - area, and U would think you people would spend a little more thought and say, gee, do we need to go in front. of these people down here a a public meet- ing --asking to legallir `pollute' our ponds, that+' wha you ' re asking, o legally do it. Brgna: I think about ten minutes ago', 'in our present- ation, we indicated -that one 5 well cluster has been installed 'in the middle of the proposed drainage easement.' It was sampled- 5 tines last year at various depths an8 the results are Very optimistic at this stage of the Same, sir, and •- I submit to you those resu I t.s. Bill dart i ros= If I mere ' to run . my washing mach ins into that lake, you know what would happen, -ri h-f y simple washing m' chine , but I have to. be l feet away from the water 'and I can' t run. the water . o f f my driveway into i . l can' t collect all the water Off mY roof and dig a trench and pip-e it 'into the porno withut any contain idents , and here you are requesting of us to take all the runways, all - the streets o f i s i r Bse and s i n . ' y g� - I want to run all of our pollutants into your pond. Ms B hrman: This is gust a -small section of the Base. I think you have solve very large general concern, l think more particularly addressed } in some of the E.C. Jordan reports to the TEAC Committee. Bili. lartiros: It' s -only a small part of the base but relative- to only one house polluting, the Town would take action against me if I poll- uted it on one small. lot.