10/28/1985 BOARD OF HEALTH Minutes

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# i Board of Health Meeting, October , 1985, Minutes Letter from DEQE re: Deer Crossing Pumping Test Review r of " well, the letter requests a plan showing the three separate condominiums and to designate what areas and building are in each. NOTED, FILED Y6, Letter from DEE re: Master deeds for proposed developments. Nonie explained that this was brought about by Doer Crossing, who, - if they leave it the way it is now, they will have to put in a treatment plant, a well field would have to be 40 feet rather than the 125 feet they have now, they either have to cone up with separate raster deeds to stay with the Board of Health, if they don' t it does to the state.Mr. Lawrence stated that this give us some area of direction wherein some people were sub- dividing, sub-dividing to get away from total gallonage, our regulation calls for total gallonage in deference to how many times it is subdivided. NOTED,, FILE . George Heufelder of Barnstable County Health and Lt. Long of Mashpee Fire 'Dept appearee before the Board re : underground storage . CFB explained that a sample of the proposed regulation had been sent to the Fire Chief, to see how he looked at it du ' to the fact that it is a town by-law and j a lot of the responsibility of it rests with the Fire Dept. , and -that some of the proposed- regulation was - different from the way in which the Fire Dept was looking at it. Lt. Long had no input into the matter, having stated that the Chief who was presently meeting with FinCom had asked him to sit in. Mr. Heufelder explained that he had notified ,this Board and all others on the Cape that his department was seeking funds for a proposal which would help towns that had regulation relating to underground storage get a program going and keep it going and return it to the town within two years in very manageable fora, he had been studying the reds that are spin-off of federal RECRA r'egs (Resource Conservation and Recovery Act) presently requires the registration of all tanks (underground fuel storage tanks) in excess of 1100 gallons to be registered with the state. when the Fed reg was adopted it stated that the State rust have some agency within the state that was to be notified of persons having tanks, persons that were 'exempted' from this reg would be those having fuel oil tanks on the property and were using the fuel for use there. A lot of states felt that this- was a lax reg because : a. It only required registration, no inspectional requirements. b# It exempted larger tanks that homeowners had that may have a problem with leaking. The governor referred this problem .to two state agencies : 1 . State Fire Marshall ' s office 2 . Department of Environmental & Quality Engineering. The State Fire Marshall office would ro ie e all registration of tanks, 1100 gals- and above and within the RECRA regs a memoranda of agreement between DEQE and State ,Fire Marshall., who, FM would pretty much run the show until data were all together the S M would turn the data over to DEQE and the reg would remain with SFM. The two agencies will work together on this, the sm' s office in very timely fashion drafted a regulation, CMR 9 which was sent to Fire Chiefs this calls for r'egistra- tion and inspection of tanks at tighter intervals of almost any regula- tions. Indications are that the FM' s office will be responsible for all registrations and inspections which will be kept on a computer base there. George stated that after attending athe public hearing on the reg, he felt that which tanks would be regulated and which ones not should be included in the reg, other concerns would be registration tags and local responsibility. If a supplier of oil rade a delivery