10/27/2005 BLUE RIBBON COMMITTEE Minutes

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- 1IR The Chairman said: ""In what we were tallying about tori4ght, we were tallying about nitrogen. Z thinly we spent the last hour and a half really trying to cone up with some of the issues, up with things to give everyone in town an education. We also have some things that we need to be educated on," Toni Fudala said:}Do you want me to bn'ng information from the estuaries? There is an executive summary on each report. The Popponesset report, the Quoshnet there's a separate report for Quoshnet and Hamblin Pond. Also matcrials on nitrogen issues, Just so you know what's gong on from the state. That's one thing is we have to understand the scale of the problem and where it's corning from." Douglas Storrs added: "'I don't think we have completed the core of our conference. we should continue it in out next meeting. It's directly tied to land use and. management, I thinly our zoning is a huge department problem.. If we continue to allow our government to mandate sprawl.'a Tom said: {"It doesn't and it hasn't for many ears." Douglas Storrs added: "'You can interrupt arae. But right now, I'm saying I think our zoning is a huge part of the problem. You can disagree with me, that's fine. But if we continue to see this sprawl foram of development occur, which has been dominant with us in the last 20 years, that's directly tied to the waste water problem." ella Elizenberry said: The point, Toni, is the grand fathering areas in town- we need to get rid of them. Look at this and see if we can male this change."' Beverly Kane added "If we mandated septic tanks would that gives us an meaningful reduction in nitrogen* would that have any impact at all? Glenn Santos said "Basically what that does, youir routine pumping basically beeps your system from failure. It keeps the grease and the salts from backing up and getting into your leaching system which will end up eventually plugging it up. As Torn was saying a Denite is a straight better than a straight Title 5. A Title 5 is better than a cesspool. The best system is the Anferdrome Sewage Treatment plant stem• it will get almost basically everything out." Beverly Dane said: "Don't get the compost and the toilet. Glenn Santos said: "For the gray water irrigation. As far as pumping, Beverly, it's not going to remove the nitrogen. What it does it keeps the solids from getting into your leaching system, which is going to make your have a failure. what we see with emergency failures, people own a house for fifteen twenty-five ears never hada um y y pump out that's why it failed."