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<br /> TOWN of MASHPEE, BOARD of HEALTH, MEETING, FEBRUARY 8, 1988 Page four;
<br /> 10. cont i rued -Chair'.: � " l"l I hope we -have room there."
<br /> "Well they'rlooking into- everything right now, it does make more
<br /> sense to have it there." - t
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<br /> Chair. "l can buy thatreallywell , one of the reasons particularly in this
<br /> area I was interested i n having that plant put down at the bottom of everything
<br /> was because I felt that if the water could be refined and it had enough filtration,
<br /> by the time it care out, and the indication was that it was coning out by the San-
<br /> tuit estuary, that there wouldn't be the nutrient load to it to affect that area
<br /> of the river and it cleared the,wa*y for all the wells that were in between."
<br /> "1e indicated to thea that whatever they put up for a facility that it
<br /> would 'have to be good enough for a treatment plant plus a septic type; which could
<br /> probably combine both into one. "
<br /> Ms. McConnell -, "Well even if- the regional plan could happen , it's unknown at
<br /> this time, and it won't be known for quite awhile, so I 'm curious about how this
<br /> affects their immediate future and, whether or; not, what powers you have to say,
<br /> because the other one is speculative, you 're going to build X or , - I mean I don't
<br /> know where ,you are at this point. I do want to emphasize that one of the things we
<br /> don't wa.nt is this conventional plant, this interim thing. And,her'e's what our en-
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<br /> gineons ' from Whitman and Howard, we have engaged h,ydrogeo l og i st s and environmen-
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<br /> tal engineers as well in the meantime; they're saying this has to, Phase one has
<br /> to stand on its ' own, it is not clear whether Phases 2 and. 3 will ever happen , in
<br /> that, this is a funny world, and this is a British firm, there could be a reces-
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<br /> sio and who knows if we allow a conventiona.1 system it might be there forever,
<br /> another thing that was mentioned that even a packaged treatment plant which is
<br /> engineered for a larger capacity (you people know this better than I do) can be
<br /> geared .to handle a lesser flow, in fact the engineer- this morning told. me that
<br /> the one at Yarmouth (cove) it's a fairly large capacity but in the winter they go
<br /> down to -5000 gals and it works."
<br /> Chair: . "I had wondered when I saw the letter from om is la.h n, talkifig about
<br /> not agreeing with the 14,000, I had gore to a meeting , that's what tipped me off
<br /> n this, it must be two years ago, at Bridgewater, he was one -of the speakers for
<br /> DEE, he said that these plants could be very efficient as low as and perhaps
<br /> lower than eight thousand gallons per day and it send to rye if this was .so that
<br /> between our two bodies (Barnstable and Mashpee) because my conversations with
<br /> lakville seem to indicate that we would have the right to request and look for
<br /> a treatment plant under the 15.,000 g.p.d. , but they doubted that we had the ex-
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<br /> portise in order to evaluate whether, or not, the plant was being built p roper ly.
<br /> But, if ,you have the engineering capabilities- and we have the use of it, thea I
<br /> think we're in a position to say, Yh, we demand it and we have the skill with
<br /> which to judge it."
<br /> Ms. McConnell : "The person who could be most helpful' is Pawl Anderson, do
<br /> you people know him? I guess you do, he's now wi-th Whitman and Howard, four days
<br /> week, he was here 'last week at the meeting , and he's the one who pointed out
<br /> the 5000 gal °capac ity, which up in Yarmouth is working. He says he's not too
<br /> popular -down here with you people, he's ,yoking about it. Another thing that 1r.
<br /> andorson brought out ' if the package treatment plant were to be built up on the
<br /> northern edge there, that the leaching field are in wrong place f rxom his point
<br /> of view and feels they should move over to the west, the far edge where it would
<br /> protect ,your well T-4 and' the Cotuit well , he felt that this was a logical re-
<br /> vision."
<br /> Chair-, "I n that line , I wondered whether they had submitted a solute trans-
<br /> port model ."
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