3/14/1996 BOARD OF HEALTH Minutes

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NffNUTES March 14, 1996 3 BOARD OF BEALTH 11r. o"Brien stated, "ewe have submitted revised plans and a revised application for the leaching facility." "Revised plans delineate the vent for the .A.S.T. to be positioned above the building roof line." c ere are two vents co in9 Trona the r rS.T. systems, a " vent for the exhaust air from the blower and another vent to make the hydraulics work from the .A.S.T. system to the pump chambers which prevents siphoning from one tank to the next.713 `ewe are in the process of obtaining a maintenance contract with the Fr.A.S.T. system people to inspect the system four times a year for the first year." "I will provide a o of the contract to the Board once executed.ly� "Th groundwater l monitoring schedule is required per Title v." `'we would prefer to do the monitoring to prove the system out rather than installing wells. Sample points will be identified. "The sample point for the system will be the pump chamber. Mr. ]McQuaid relayed, "D. . . regulations for the F. .S.T. system requires a maintenance agreement with a Massachusetts certified wastewater operator who will b responsible to oversee the operation of the system, the owner of the system must provide contracts with operation maintenance and maybe contracted regarding costs of the contract through Loveless." "' . . . also requires that influent and effluent from the system be monitored monthly for the first six months and quarterly thereafter.91. Mr. O'Brien stated, "Those requirements were created when the F.A.S.T. system reli inar approval.'" "I m confident that the monitoring is now quarterly and received �� the monitoringthat ] .E.P. require s is only when the .A.S.T. is used for a system repairr. Mr. McQuaid relayed, "I would recommend approval as long as Mr. O'Brien can ' substantiate that he is cin to follow the nun n n requirements of provide r evens g . r ..�I Mr. O'Briena; n commented, "I think monthly monitoring requirements are excessive.3P9 n stated "'I would recommend you try to get D.E.P. to agree to quarterly �r Evans , monitoring."' ' n approve revised plansas submitted however, the certificate �. Ball motioned t pp of occupancy and the food establishment permit will be withheld until the issue of groundwater momtoring is resolved, Mr. Cram seconded, all agreed. Being no further business Mr. . bra r�aotioned to journ this meeting at 8:01 p.m., Mr. Ball seconded, all agreed. Respectfully.submitted, Ve nica Ma er, Adm. Sec.