5/16/2002 BOARD OF HEALTH Minutes

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i is not being used at Otis. It is a huge treatment plan. sterns and Wheeler are doing an impact study with the sand. Would it be feasible for the Commons to be pumped down Rte 151 to the base? They are looking at different things. coning up with a major treatment plan and then having a discharge pipe going all the way out to okway Bay. There are a couple of other ideas. It has been given $460,000.00 and they haven't even begun the commission yet.' Mr. Harrington, "Sterns and Wheeler has started the watershed study. It started right when he cane here in September, one of the first things they did was go around to look at all of the private water treatment facilities. They went through I lashpee commons, Windchimes and the high school. They are getting an idea of what type of flows the private treatment facilities are dealing with. one thing that he wanted to impart to the BOH is that he had a conversation with an engineer who had a conversation with Brian Dudley at the DEP regarding the innovative alternative systems. The DEP theory is now going to be getting away from the individual IA systems. I think we need to stay at the forefront of the septic regulations and whatnot for the town and the cape thea the BOH may need to address some regional policies. They may need to work with the Watershed and the Sewer Commission to do that as the SOH." Mr. Santos, "One master sewer plan is not going to work and try to pump it from everywhere else." Mr. Harrington, "What happens when the individual septic fails? What do you do with that house? Do you put the money into buying another septic system? or do you wait until everyone else fails so that you can run the line at once? Mow are you going to do that on a local or regional basis? They need to cone up with something because 1 think that is where it i going to lead. Municipal plants work better. There is constant flog of waste and that is the way those plants are designed. They are more regulated, easier to monitor and they work better. The treatment is better. Where cape cod is so seasonal the IA systems don't work, The bacteria only live for three months. You are taking the three months to grow your bacteria and then the season ends and it gets cold. The other thing is the cold. The winter comes and those bacteria die. They are not being used. They are not getting more food. It gets cold. They have everything against M therm in the off-season. When you start getting enough flow to get into the larger systems on the municipal or regional level. It provides the best conditions." The conversation continued between the member of the audience and the BOH for a few more minutes regarding this issue. The member of the audience then asked what time the meeting started.