11/10/2005 BLUE RIBBON COMMITTEE Minutes

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4 them, She listed the various boards that could give the Town assistance with the wastewater problem. Ids. Kane added that when, in the past, there was a proposal made for the DEP, there was a listing of 16 items that should be looked and evaluated. And then to top it off] they made an excellent analysis of each of triose. The Committee should focus on whether to say"Yea," or"Nay." what can the Conservation Commission do, what can the Board of Health do? , she added, to address the issue. Ms. Kane continued that she thought it was a little early then on how the Board was going to tackle the problem, She thought the memo would have something for the Board to think about. Begin to get people assigned to certain issues to work on. But f think that this will be a good start,, at lust to have us think about it. The Chainnan said he thought it was an excellent recommendation. He added that at the next meeting the Board would go through each of the various items in detail. Glenn Santos spoke up that Ms, lane brought up a good point about the cesspools. He had talked it over with Glen Harrigan and was putting together with him a proposal of what thcy were going to do. Other towns had done it, he said. He said it was a beginning for the Committee that if you had a change of ownership and a cesspool,you had to bring it up to Title 5 regulations. Title 5 says that if the cesspool passes, you don't have to upgrade it. There are a lot of criteria, he said,and he listed various situations in which Title 5 regulation would be enforced in a typical assessment of cesspools. He said he and fir, Harrigan were going to be lobbying that the idea he had presented earlier, regarding these items, passes. The 0airman asked rhetorically if anyone had any idea how many houses in Masbpee had cesspools`? Ms. Dane added the thought if the Committee members knew how old the people's houses in Mashpee were. She said that people should forget about the issue and buy a composting toilet. The Chain-nan said that it definitely sounded like an interesting proposal, what the impact of that would be. Mr. Santos said that the idea was that if there were a.change of ownership, you would have to have an inspection, That's something were working on. Weregoing to have a public notice meeting, we're going to discuss it and then once it"s advertised two weeks after that, it's the law,he said to the Committee. The Chairman said would it be maybe he was incorrect but asked if it would be correct to say that in the neighborhoods more prevalent with multiple properties using cesspools in the same neighborhood.