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BOARD of HEALTH
<br /> 1E ET I N
<br /> AUGUST 19 , 19$6
<br /> i Members present : C . Lawrence , R . Wilson , C . Buckingham
<br /> Meeting called to order 4 ; 15 p .m .
<br /> CFB : THE PURPOSE of THE TAPE Is FOR THE CLERK IN PUTTING TOGETHER
<br /> THE NOTES of THE MEETING , IT ' S NOT AN OFFICIAL PART of THE MEETING .
<br /> CFB : WE HAVE MR. MURPHY To DISCUSS THE TRANSFER STATION AND USE
<br /> OF TOWN VEHICLES .
<br /> Joseph F . Murphy : Thank you . Back in June the Board of Health had
<br /> indicated to rye in reference to the subject of regional transfer
<br /> stations , of Course we had been told by the Board of Health in
<br /> Sandwich that they really weren ' t interested in pursuing the con-
<br /> cept of a mutual transfr station . And , this BoarSd of Health had
<br /> asked that I communicate with , or , asked if it were practical to
<br /> communicate with the Sandwich Board of Selectmen , that was done ,
<br /> if you wi l 1 , in an informal fash ion , through Bruce Stanford , Bruce
<br /> is the selectman from sandwich , who is , or represents that town on
<br /> the solid Waste Task Force appointed by the County Commission .
<br /> Bruce and l met we subsequently joined with Falmouth in discus-,-
<br /> cion with Virginian and we have been m'eeting primarily at Otis .
<br /> Since we have this other , if ,you will , upper Cape community out
<br /> there Called Otis , the National Guard Base . We have meeting , we
<br /> have another session . . . . interruption , NSR . LAWRENCE HAS ARRIVED .
<br /> We have another session scheduled for this Friday.,,,.,,-es sent i a 1 l y the
<br /> concept that ' s being explored is the idea, of constructing a trans-
<br /> fer station at the Otis Air National Guard Base Close to the Fal -
<br /> mouth gate near the rail spur and moving trash from m there to
<br /> Rochester .;. Realistically , using that concept the Towns would con-
<br /> tinue or would operate a transfer station but , at least from the
<br /> pro- pe Live of sandwich and Mai hpee it could be a lot smaller .
<br /> In other words our packers may go to this regional transfer sta-
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<br /> tion we Could obviously construct a much smaller fac i.l i'ty here.; . 4
<br /> to,,,c pact,Jt and:,.send it to rail transport , Now , to a Certain de -
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<br /> gree that ' s a theory , something that ' s being pursued , We do have
<br /> a proposal from Dave Thorman that has an awful lot of holes , they
<br /> have promised to have by Friday , a little bit of sophistication in
<br /> their numbers , but , I have for the Board for each of the members )
<br /> and for the office a Copy of this proposal for this regional rail
<br /> transfer station . I don ' t know if the thing is going to work but
<br /> I think we ' d be awful fools not to pursue the idea . One of the
<br /> questions we asked , "Ways there anywhere in the United states where
<br /> they were transporting trash by rail " , the answer was ' NO ' . You
<br /> know to visit a site to see if it is clean , this type of thing , No
<br /> none is doing this , one i s ; proposed and it ' s going to get under-
<br /> way bringing trash from Braintree to Rochester , BEM s has already
<br /> taken over the Braintree transfer station and that ' s going to be
<br /> conver5red to a facility to take the trash by train , or by rail to
<br /> Rochester , that would be the first if ,you will , this is proposed
<br /> being part of that network . . There are an awful lot of holes , as
<br /> I say , in the numbers ,, and Bay Colony,, has promised to fill some of
<br /> those - numbers , they promised to have some information priors to our
<br /> meeting on Monday , excuse rye on Friday of this week . The status of
<br /> these meetings at the Base is dept pretty evjol at ' low. key ' , between
<br /> SE ASS , Falmouth Selectmen , Mashpee and Sandwich , but it was de-
<br /> liberately kept at low key with the idea that we ' ll see what happens
<br /> this Fri daya�f ter the next r eet i an ; at that point feel we ' 1noth ire
<br /> to make a little more public dis osure whatre oing ,
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