6/29/1989 BOARD OF HEALTH Minutes

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MINUTES - BOARD of HEALTH MEETING, JULY 139 1989 page 4. UNSCHEDULED APPOINTMENT - TOM FUDALA - SPECIAL PERMIT AUTHORITY As you know, Mr, Fudala stated, the Planning Board requires monitoring wells for 4 rondo and single family subdivisions, We are interested especially in monitoring wells around treatment plants. We want to require a permanent monitoring program of these wells and want thea located both up- and downstream of the treatment plant. Our re- quirements w e- quirement i 1 l be similar but more extensive than the requirements of DE E. Mr. Greelish questioned what the longterm provisions would be to continue this monitoring. Mr. Fuda l a handed over two water quality reports, one for Quashnet Wopds and one for Wate rs.edg . In condo prof s one method would be to establish an endowment, the other would be to establish a town donation fund account. The developpers objected to hair i ng to put so much money up front. They and the Planning Board agreed to establish as part of their capital reserve fund an amount of money earmarked for the monitoring program. Furthermore the Planning Board through its special permit autho- rity utho- rity is requiring that the licensed treatment plant operator be held liable for the performance of the monitoring program. The reason being that if he' s responsible he' ll charge the developper up front for this extra duty. He continued to state that after a lot of research and talking to 1r. Butler from BHED he has come up with more stringent water quality standards than the DEE requires. The authority of the Planning Board goes beyong that of the DEE in their Discharge Permit and that of the Board of Health in their permitting autho- rity. The Planning Board does not want to be told that DE E .appro ed my treatment o 1 ant so you must also. He stated that he does not trust DEE. todo' the complete ob. The mon ifor i n program will be in effect at infinitum. It calls for a monthly onioring program for a more extensive list of parameters to be tested for than that required in the DEE discharge permit; it' also calls for a d certain number of monitoring wells up and downstream of the- plant and some off site i n projected ted plume areas. The developper would be responsible for obtaining easements for off site ells. If not obtainable- for less than $100 the Board would allow relocation or drop the requ i rment of i that ' e i l r Mr. Costa questioned whether the Planning Board has all these powers, Mr. Find a l a stated yes, under the special permit authority, to protect the public health. The Planning Board feels that they do. These documents essentially call for the Board of Health to be a participant in this process. I did spe-ak to Mr. McQuaid to get copies of water quality standarxds.But this is "my little baby" that I ' ve been working on. It calls for copies of all these reports to be given to the BOH. In fact the BOH will have to sign off on these documents as well as the Planning Board and the local water resource tanager, who I happen to be. This is a standard monitoring program which will apply to all treatment plants, only section 12 changes from one to the other and that deals with the number and loc- ation oo- ation of the wells. The enforcement will be through the Planning Board and the Building Inspector' s office, Mr. Gree l i sh informed ed Mr , Fuda 1 a of his plans t generate a water quality map of the town. This will incorporate the water tests we get back and results of the monitoring wells. . This will generate a computer map, 0Mt. McQuaid questloned how much of this is duplicating what DEE requiresnd how much is going beyond that. More constituents will be analysed than what DEE requires, he said.A new and less expensive method of analyzing leo ' s is being looked ed into at the County Lab. With this cheap test I air calling for a VOC test monthly.