10/1/1984 BOARD OF HEALTH Minutes

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Board of Health Meeting, October 1 , 1984 Page ) and topo, stratostr'u Lure and aquifer flow, we' re in the sane damn boat they are. " CHL: "Well, as you know Bill, we are keeping well abreast of this, we ' re throwing all -the regulations and everything. else into it, we 've even come up with some new ones, so we will keep you abreast if your will work with us, we can stop this I hope. We can make it the way we feel it should be. " CHL: "Thank you Bill for coming by and we will get a letter of to the Planning Bo ard tonight, the other one is wa to r s ed ge and they similarly tried to .get around that, the old cranberry bogs we' re going to pick up the nitrogen. " Mr. wool : "Have they reduced their density? HL B: "No,, not in watersedge. " CHL: "The only thing we got them on was what they were worried about, you could tell, was the nitrogen factor, and by going that route which we put in a regulation, alright, - which is a Town regulation now, it oers us. 1' Ir, Wool: "That' s wonderful! " CHL: "we did this to protect of course people like your water district, who are abutting usor coming in to re-charge and hope that someone else would do it on the other end, but they came back with this . . .what was it the bog was going to pick up. . . . . " 'B: " eh, that the cranberry bog shol.d be considered primary wetlands and Drimary wetlands- will reduce nitrogen as effectively and more effec- tively than any other method. that can be used and so they proported that there was a lateral flow from the septic systems that would be directed through the base of the cranberry bog area and that the mud mass and the - root mass down about 40 or 50 feet would effectively de-nitrify and. I ran that by (what her name no not Arlene Wilson she was proposing it. the hydrologist, Gabrielle Belf.it, and found heir figures most interes- ting and slanted. I ran it through my own calculator and I couldn' t conte up with the answers they were coming up with, , but we simply sent them a letter that we didn' t feel that their data was correct, and we let it go that way and- our final to the Planning -Board was that they would have to go tertial at least, we didn' t 'mention terFtial, what we said was that their water had. to be returned to the ground in Class A condition and that they would have to apply to DEAF; for their water drawing permits . " Mr. wool: "Are you talking community ells over there?" F'B: "Ther are going to have to, as near as we could get from DEQE. Mr. Wool: "Because o f the density?" FB: "Because of the density and the only way they can come out of it is to decrease each unit to bass than the 25 and I doubt that they can do that. " CHL: ' DEB is corning down, they are starting to enforce this, that' s why we've run into some of things we have here in town, they' re looking at this very closely. "