09/20/1990 BOARD OF HEALTH Minutes

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i MINUTES September 20, 1990 5 BOARD OF HEALTH T look would be given to the study prior to final submittal . The general public was misled in that the ,idea of these samples came from the River. correspondence was received from the Conservation commission eluding to the fact that the Board of Health had not responded to this knowledge at the time. The Board of Health was made aware of phase I an II of the study only this evening, which is unfortunate from an in- terdepartmental point of view, clearly, this Board could have done many things to assist the Planning Board, par- ticularly in the property access dispute. Ms, Mills stated, she would like a correction made at that meeting as *she never indicated the sample was from the River. The sample's were J a ele a ,run-off. z i Dr. Kerfoot raised an' o j ectrion to the illusions made relative to . the sa p" les. The. reality where -samples were taken of direct run-off, volumes of run-off were calculated going into the Mashpee River -and samples were taken of the lashpee River at that. time. _ B , Kerfoot presented logarithmic scale of the I ashpee River and i ndi ted the ar- eas s in which,,the sampling -took 1.a e. The ur o e- was to stipple along the courses of drainage areas that flowed into tl� ,?}M shpee River during a storm event. A sample was taken Wing 500 directly upstream of the Rived end in the River 1-�i,d d one showing over 1000 directly below the area where the `discharge is likely to occur within the Ricer. Mr. reel ish stated the statement from the first phase indicates that the water fowl, coup potentially account for the total coliform count. Mr, Greelish reiterated his ear- lier comments stating the Boards concern is the culvert in which the sample was taken is 2001 from the River. This Board cannot see, in reasonable terms, that the flow from that culvert ever gets to the River. .Dr, Kerfoot commented this particular sampling done was during a very heavy storm in the Spring where them have been high water conditions. our purpose was not to look for fail- ing sept : systems, but rather characterizing run-off and channelstassocied with it going into the River system, it was by h ppep to ce that we became involved in the very high coliform dontents. Dr, Kerfoot reviewed the areas in which coliform counts .were found and commented we have found! fre- quently,, elevated coliform content within this particular re- gion, indicated to the Board on the scab - as above and be- low the Ri end . The problem with episodes like this, if his is a►n ' some of a overflow which it has characteris- � .. in� p� " the Mashpee River system does not necessarily stay %ire vdty long, in fact the material will move down and