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<br /> Board of Health, Meeting, Minutes, April 28 , 19 Page four
<br /> that seems to be there, that you would take your own precautions.
<br /> Insofar as the Board has to look at it, we are looking for confir-
<br /> mation or non-confirmation whether there is anything in the water
<br /> at that point., till that time . `e can't make an answer. we will
<br /> be instructing, requesting and I 'm sure they will go along with us
<br /> from the County, 'a test in the area so that we can come up with some
<br /> idea of the water duality in that area. Up until the time we get
<br /> the report back on those tests, there is no way that we know what
<br /> to say about it. "
<br /> Mr. Trask* "I can unlerstand because you haven't hal the tests cone
<br /> r in that area. "
<br /> FB: ' That' s right! "
<br /> Mr. Trask: " -t at isome point, it just seems that, with a1l the young
<br /> kids that are living there, who are going to- be drinking it for maybe
<br /> 18 years and the effect it has, who knows what effects in that time
<br /> frame. Pregnant women, nursing women,. it just seems as a precaution,
<br /> I know you don't know, but as -a preuation, - tie Board might we willing
<br /> to say to the people in the area thought not completed)
<br /> FB: "I don' t thing I can say anything more than you have to use your-
<br /> own judgement until such time as we } now what we are talking about, I
<br /> don't think we can say anything one way, or the other. we are develop-
<br /> ing a program that we think will . e .a.b.le to say something, and that' s
<br /> what we have to go by, we simply can' t say one way or the other anti ;
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<br /> we know what there is to say about. If you want to use your own
<br /> judgement, the people in that area want to use their own judgement
<br /> about what' s going- on, I in no, way discourage it,, but,, I 'm not telling
<br /> anybody until I know something, whether you have a problem or you don 't
<br /> have a problem. "
<br /> Ms. Mullen: "From the war I understand it, it ' s the contaminants in
<br /> the town dump, right?"
<br /> FB: "We 're not 1 that sure either, it could be a source, yes, but
<br /> we are not that sure!
<br /> Ms. Mullen: "I do not have a chemical background but is there anyway
<br /> to get rid of- the contaminants at the dump?"
<br /> FB: "From all the information -that I can- gather, once a disposal
<br /> area', or anything, starts to get into the water table, it is going
<br /> to be a difficult if not impossible thing to stop it in its " tracks.
<br /> From what I can understand from alrl . the descriptions of all the scien-
<br /> tists and hydrologists have used in -descrIbing this type of situation,
<br /> 'you had something in the past that was put into the ground over here,
<br /> and as the water cane down through it., and brought it into . the water ,
<br /> table, than water table st-arted a lateral movement. Until such -time
<br /> as you can remove everything over here, or put a blockage in front of
<br /> it, that keeps it from generating any further, it is going to move as
<br /> long as this isn' t vapped over in some war and sleep from contributing, -
<br /> and it will take as long -for it to pass any given point, along that
<br /> route, as it took to get there. - That' s mfr understanding in a very
<br /> simple way of what everybody has been talking about. And some things,
<br /> like an oil spill, a gasoline spill that forms a definite puddle on
<br /> top of things, there is a possibility that it night be siphoned off, . . .
<br /> or to be ' pul lecl out and taken away. Fro - .:what - I understand of these
<br /> ethanes, this is not a possibility, so that to nor mind, it means that
<br /> as long as it took to get there and the point source is capped- off,
<br /> it' s going to take that long to pass any given point.
<br /> Ir. Trask: "Using that same argument, -with the results of the County,
<br /> that should not be disclosed because they are private wells, is the
<br /> Town legally, ung, is the Town held responsible legally if the clump
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