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Page lo, Minutes, Meeting, 7/16/84
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<br /> according to what he told rye was, TI cleaned it and I pumped it'O., he changed his
<br /> story agreeing that we had a failed system, after Mr. Moniz serviced our system
<br /> however, we had n o grey water standing, in the meantime we checked it daily to
<br /> make sine it was functioning properly* Mt father did daily business with Buil-
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<br /> d ,ng Depts. from New Hampshire to Rhode Island and asked many questions. He
<br /> onta.cted. the EPA as well as having discussed the matter with Mr. Kahnwho i
<br /> on the Board of Directors of the Americom Assoc. of Septic Tank Installers t
<br /> seek advice. Most of the Building Inspectors felt that perforated pipe be laid
<br /> in a trench with two :deet of pea store around. it some had nearer heard of flovT
<br /> d1J Visors, ally inspe t l on off' the systems. revealed nothing, no grey ratter and
<br /> no water, We wrote to Mrs. Anderson explaining that we were not having a prob-
<br /> lem that we were monitoring the situation and if needed we would immediately act
<br /> to pump or male any repairs which were needed to stop the leakage,, we thought we
<br /> had solved the' problem* In February,, Mrs. Anderson sent the f it t threatening
<br /> letter spea1ving of condemnation, �.re d.-id- not receive it in erebr- a.r r because it was
<br /> certified and we were never home when the mailman arrived; we work from 4.30 A. M.
<br /> until 7 o'clock at ni g� t. She threatened to condemn our house, why, there was no
<br /> health robl.em no ire water and. n or. We had received. this letter Apr. 3o
<br /> we receive the second threatenin .etter that a. a .n stated. that we
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<br /> were creating a substantial threat both to ourselves and the public and that our
<br /> house was unfit for human habitation; she also stated that we were discharging
<br /> effluent septage into a n open ditch and n t public land, e could not understand
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<br /> what she * ,s saying, there a, no ditch and• �.ud effluence lowlng onto public
<br /> lana, she then forwarded this lei ger to the banks holding g ou.r mortgage, hoping
<br /> they would ppply pressure, they did not as they knew there was no substance a
<br /> previously described, she knew the only way o get us to up-grade our system whi ch
<br /> _.s protected by the g: ar d Pathe ��au e was to -Ca r+c ,te the info�:��cation that we
<br /> were cox,*eating a health hazard. The Town backed their Agent. We began, she being
<br /> the only source of information that gave to the' Town. We did not want to be evicted,
<br /> so we made the effort to get someone to help us to verify we were not poluting, we
<br /> began calling -Lnstal lers to core and the cls, they were afraid and they told us so.
<br /> We were told that za ,.) a.. . . . .EXCUSR MEWILL SOMEONE LISTEN To ME PLEASE... ** so.
<br /> 'B: "We are, go ahead."
<br /> Mr. o eilj: "they were afraid and they told us so, We were told that no one o
<br /> the Cape would dare since they needed permits to work in the Town,even Mr. Lapio
<br /> who was to do our work backed out. It was a member of the BR from another town
<br /> who told us that no one would come to. our aid. My mother had been alone with m
<br /> si sten until the end of May, when I arrived home from school I began calling
<br /> contractors. I did not tell ah, ah, a * **I contracted with Acme Cesspool to come
<br /> and veri y that we were not polluting, that is the whole questionl he could see
<br /> there was no overflow after opening the manhole,, berme opening the manhole. After
<br /> opening the manhold to the cesspool., he said the level of the water in the cesspool_
<br /> was too high and therefore the cesspool. had failed., I asked him to write up a
<br /> p oposal, he telephoned that afternoon to state that Mrs. Anderson had requested three
<br /> flow diffasors., the cast would be $1650-, he needed all the money in advance and.
<br /> Mrs* Anderson wanted it done within 48 hours which would have been a Friday. Baring
<br /> writt n ma-,,m proposals myself I find these tens unacceptable. We contact-ed our
<br /> coroate attorney, who teaches at Boston College Law School and he recomended
<br /> Attorney Thibbits whom he described as an honorable and moral man. He could hardly
<br /> believe the harrassment we received, we had been subjected, to police cruisers ll.,in
<br /> up to the door at any hour of night "to deliver letters with statements that were
<br /> untrue and very damaging. That public information had been kept from us� but a sign
<br /> telling of our home being unfit for human habitation had been affixed to our home by
<br /> an un:Ldentified trespasser as my mother answered the door. My mother and sister were
<br /> frightened to the point where they were both hysterical and physically ill.. A neigh-
<br /> bor, Mro DiMasca f s wife was there on that day and 'm sine she can verify this,
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