10/1/1984 BOARD OF HEALTH Minutes

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Board of Health Meeting, October 1 , 1984 Page Mr. Wool: OK, I have one more thine and I guess that I 'm pretty well blown out here. I 've been thinking very strongly of the possibility and probability of a guarantee bond established by the developer- for a period f 20 to 25 errs of water shed damage liahlility, that probably is a pre- cedence r - d n setting thing that doesn't exist today. I 've mentioned t -Coun- sel un- s l and they've said it' s probably something that could be drafted but would have to coo through the court system to be totally tested as a pre- cedence setting thine, but it' s something, leased upon what you've told me tonight that I still have time to pursue because the dif initivs have not come in for structural lay-out yet and therefore structural layout will determine density. " FB: "What we ran into once we began to develop re-charge aruts and the knowledge was right there that they respected no boundaries, unfortunatel the water Advisory Group- that was formed subsequent of the 208, has no legal means with corning up with anything and we were, hoping that some- thing would come out of the County review committee that was formed to revise County Regulations ar�d Law and what-riot that would give an avenue for this sort of thine, " Mr. wool : "I realize that your hands are somewhat tied, I guess I 'm looking for some direction to pursue this, I guess at ' this point is to turn over whatever documentation that I can acquire to the Planning Bd. " CHL: "we will follow it through with a letter and also to DEQE,' if you' r going to follow it from your end, I thik it will he a two-pronged , or I think it will get us a little more attention- on this matter, it can only do help us it can' t hurt. " Mr. wool: "We have forwarded letters to DEQE r : watersdg , this just came back to us and during the past two weeks I 've been a little ill and I haven' t done anything on it but pursue it within nay immediate group. We' re turning over some interesting things at - the water Quality Advisory Group in the Town of Barnstable in the structuring. of the determination of the re-charge areas and it turns out that one of the things that was a little fait dismaying in Cotuit was that the area aroung santuit Pend is as far as they could determine on the Barnstable side pretty much as it is on the computer model now, but the area around our three primary ells which is down off samps ns Mill Rd is much larder and much more elypti al encompassing much more land mass than we orignally thought based on the old maps that had been generated, and what that means it' s doing to be. a lot sooner that a plume could get to our well area, now w are going to have four wells rather than three drawing off of that re- charge area and the one well that we have downtown by our Main street to li is a much smaller re-charge area is singularized than we thought it was, we thought they overlapped, they are saying, now that according to the new computer model that they do not, so our four hid users are going to be in it, consequently based upon our expansion program for our next well which is going to be in a year or so, hell we' re jumping from the frying pari ,into the f .rand it' s either- that or spend an amount of money from_ the District to acquire lands and do all the testing and research to pint in - a whole new well system, we-' re now using information that w already have, using an area that we already own, consequently there ' s a lot of economics involved plus I guess we could call it the moral issue that goes alone with it, I don' t wnat to deal with economics because I don' t think that economics4 has to be the dictating factor in the water works, it can' t be because we have a way of life that is unique in this part of the country and I 'd really hate to- s o that go. down the tube and wind up. You know I sound like the foresayer of bad tidings but damn it they've done it in Florida and Lona Island in ares of similiar terrain I