12/4/1997 BOARD OF HEALTH Minutes

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inside the pit."' "D. . . said no, don't disturb the soils because we want to test the soils at some lata date." "We can burn it out in the open which would be less expensive than t excavate this stuff, truck it tom the landfill and have the landfill contractor landfill it.'" 'The NffNUTES December 4. 1997 8 BOARD OF HEALTH Army National Guard has offered.their assistance and the Barnstable County House of Correction has offered their assistance and they have to schedule this." Mr. Doherty stated, "we can either rectify the situation at minimal costs to town and maybe hope to recover that land or you can take any legal action you need however, e're going to lose the offer from the military." "It's not going to be a cheap fix." "So, we either tale the long hard road and hope that somebody else pays the entire bill or we talo the short quick road now and we bite the bullet and pay for it and maybe recover later." "I would life to forward a letter to Mr. Whrxt rx la�a we can either move on this quickly with the assistance of the National Guard and spend approximately $60 , . to $8,000.00 in t funds t cleanup the situation quckly and then let the lawyers cone in and do their thing afterwards r we can take no immediate action and let the lawyer's do their thing." i SI)5 Plume i Mr. Cram relayed, "The town has engaged Woodard and Curran, at the town's expense, to provide opinion's and evaluations in regards to this." "I looped over the report that was provided to the Selectmen and I was very impressed." "They went through every particular alternative that was provided in regards to this-and assessed each one individually, pro's and con's, and finally submitted their recommendation as far as approval and which one." "The letter concluded stating I expect the estimated costs of all the alternatives will be considerably less than they had presented." Being no further business Mi. Doherty motioned to adjourn this meetin at 5;25 p.m., Mr. y Cram seconded.