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<br /> TOM of r&PEE, BOARD OF HEALTH, MEETING,, APRIL 2, 1987 Page two
<br /> that sureone is-going to have to take the responsibility to be sure that the filter is
<br /> properly operating.
<br /> BJT: Well, that's something that they're going to have to look into, this is like a game plan. The
<br /> first thing they are going to look into is to be sure the Town gets the Letter of Responsibility, it-
<br /> is
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<br /> is the same type of thing t hat EPA was going to initiate.
<br /> AFB* Well, this is the other thing I'd like to-bring out, this letter that we received in March, is
<br /> an answer to a request that we had made . a Town and through the County, must be seven or eight
<br /> rnths ago when we realized what was happening up thea, requesting an evaluation as to what the wa-
<br /> ter could be used for, and, it's taken this length of time to get a response from EPA to find what
<br /> it could be used for.
<br /> BJT: You know as long as they were pr v i d i ng bottled water,. and that was a to Tporary so l ut.i on, and
<br /> ,you didn't have the crisis situation where noone could bathe (interrupt)..
<br /> FB: Put, but, they knew the readings in Building 1 , t his one of the reasons I knew it had been
<br /> fluctuating, it has not been fluctuating from a very law level to a very high level, it's been fluc-
<br /> tuating
<br /> luc-
<br /> tuating ori th i n the high l eve l and they knew this from the second or th i r examination on.
<br /> BJT: i think what rea l ly poted this letter, was. that cotu i t did a pr i gate we l 1 sample and the
<br /> reading was high.
<br /> FB: There were EPA smpl es, there were County arra 1 e s...
<br /> B T: And they have all that d ata; they to l ked about that, they have all the information f roma sources
<br /> CFB; And they finally put it all together.
<br /> BJT: DEE has put it all together, but, EPA has gust cam up with heir letter.
<br /> CFB: Wel l it seems to rye early on, one of the points of discussion'. early on, when EPA was running
<br /> the 'ball gave' was the solution they're now talking of to use the good wells up there to supply wa-
<br /> ter to the other buildings and in conversation and investigation they found that the only thing that
<br /> stood in the way k was that there was no reservoir; that each of those buildings was on 100 gallon
<br /> tank wh i ch was deemed adequate to supp l -the bu i 1 d i ng w i th water nad i f ,you hook another bu i Id i ng
<br /> up with that ,you didn't have the reservoir supply, So it would seem to rye that they've got to cora
<br /> around to finding another couple hundred gallon tank scrrwhere and putting -thrn in the-ground. Inso-
<br /> far as l ay i ng p i pe s underground, we,need what W i 11, about h ree feet to get be low the average frame?
<br /> eh on a quick basis, we're talking buildings with good water, erre talking about buildings
<br /> with bad-water, so obv'i ours l there's areas on that site that house good water and before I would be
<br /> i nc l i ned� tea burden ars existing wee l l and take from the ps s i b i l i ty of taking water from pp l e who
<br /> have water now that's satisfactory; I don't know why we don't pursue possibly punching a couple of
<br /> two inch wel is in areas we know and even if it means from. now unci 1 October the I ine could be on
<br /> the surface to get in- d i ate water there, you coukd do i t i n two days.
<br /> BJT: We 11, I'll back up for; Will and Peter t s sake, what they're going to do officially so they can
<br /> use 'Super Fund' money to issue the Town a letter of rsponsibi 1 ity and that triggers Super Fund so
<br /> that they can put their technicians in the ,fob, to set up the plan, of shutting down the bad wells
<br /> and looking into which one that they would use to supply...
<br /> WH: Y h, but don't ,you see that-frustrates me, because what they're going to is tax the water Sys-
<br /> tem of people that AROV'�T PRESUffLY JEOPARDI ZED. And, I say leave well enough a l one, on that, get
<br /> into an area, I roan they've got all sorts of land up there and obviously the whole thing isn't
<br /> plagued with pollution and drop another well in there, fifty feet from the we 1 l rou t d be tapping
<br /> frc m and and creating twice the draw off, I think that would be more beneficial. I think the pro-
<br /> blEm you've got is dealing with all these agencies other than the BOH here, as to how they're going
<br /> to feel about this whole thing. We've got to study_this who thing this and that but I think for
<br /> a fast release thing and I mean faster than anything else, especially when it comes to bathing, ah
<br /> you can get curt of-that plume area, it's obvious thre are units out of that ply area right naw.
<br /> CFB= I th 1 nk you're thinking the way I'm thinking, it's taken a couple of months just for this let
<br /> ter to arrive and now we're talking about a scientific teary or a field team whatever they want to
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