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Board of Health, Meeting, Minutes, April 281 1986 (Pace three)
<br /> of view, you know, I wouldn't think the water,. on the basis of the
<br /> water at. ummerwood Condominiums, "
<br /> Agent: Not all the buildings were found to have contaminants, "
<br /> Mr. Trask: "But I also know that in,in some areas that several wells
<br /> that in the case of the TcE was found to be three times higher than the
<br /> PA standards and in the ease of .the dichloroethylene it was 40 ppb,
<br /> where the EPA proposed standard is 70 "
<br /> cFB : " eh, proposed standard is even. "
<br /> Mr. Trask: "It ' s distressing, "
<br /> FB: "One of the things -that' s distressing to ane is this- question of
<br /> standards. It bothers me dnd I 'm not in the least encouraged simply by
<br /> knowing that everybody would like their water to read zero, because in
<br /> this day and age of land use and half u-se of land, there ' s virtually
<br /> an impossibility. we just haven 't been able to make it fine enough, I
<br /> don't think we' re ever going to find anything that register's zero, "
<br /> r. Trask: "Agreed"
<br /> cFB: "I would like to talk with County and see where their next step
<br /> is going to be. I know that we ' re not going to stop where we are, it' s
<br /> just a question of getting together with there, and see how far out we
<br /> expand this and which direction we expand, but I know we ' ll be covering
<br /> the whole perimeter as much as we can. The question of whether we can
<br /> go out and engage a private- laboratory .to come in, it' s beyond our ca-
<br /> pabilities, beyond our financial capabilities at this time . we will
<br /> be engaging, we have engaged, we 're just waiting for them Borne bac} ,
<br /> an engineering consultant, in order to look the area over and con-
<br /> tribute ghat they will -be required to, in endear for us to come to a
<br /> a greater assessment of the the parameters that reed to be looked at,
<br /> and, both physical and chemical . So, we ' re not standing still on it,
<br /> and I think the quickest way that we can go.
<br /> The State report, coming back, has taken about four times as long as
<br /> the county was, so I think that insofar as getting reports back and
<br /> whatnot we 're probably just as well staying with the County. "
<br /> Mr. Trask: "But you have any idea when? "
<br /> cFB: "I haven' t spoken with thea, I 'm- sure they will give us the
<br /> same amount of cooperation that they've given .us up to now. I know
<br /> that they' re as anxious to look around as we are, and, and, come up
<br /> with a better idea of our limits. "
<br /> Mr. Trask* "could I ask the Board a question. If you lived in cotuit
<br /> -corners, and, with what you know about all the numbers from summerwood,
<br /> and -the proposed direction of ground .water flow, would you, if you
<br /> li d at cotu-it corners, drink the water,. '
<br /> Agent: "I stop at the pump at the cemetery and drink that water all
<br /> the time, and I probably shouldn 't, but ilm 'still drinking it. I
<br /> have bee-n doing it now for eight gears. "
<br /> cFB: ' That' s a personal thing. "
<br /> Mr. Trask: "I guess what I 'm looking for, is the Board recommendations
<br /> . for those people living at cotuit Corners, keeping in mind the well
<br /> being of the people of Cotuit corners?" which - I expect you're charged
<br /> with!
<br /> cFB: "You' re asking me for ray personal opinion of myself and I 'm not
<br /> going to answer simply because for many years I was engaged in an in-
<br /> dustry which required that we use carbontetra.chloride, trichloroethylene
<br /> as cleaning agents, I used it as a matter of course and nothing has
<br /> happened, I know that there people working in our shop who had skin
<br /> trouble from it, an ecxzerna type of thing, that was their 'particular
<br /> sensitivity to it. At that time noone .knew what the hell it was
<br /> other than it bothered you; so, I really can 't answer that because
<br /> it hasn't affected rye even though I 've been connected with it. Insofar
<br /> as making recommendations to people in than area, I don' t know, common
<br /> sense tells me that if you are looking at something upstream of you
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