9/5/1996 BOARD OF HEALTH Minutes

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MNUTES September 5, 1996 4 BOARD of HEALTH like any dressings, or cloth pad used by patients after shots, etc.", "we have pretty much solid waste stream." Mr. Doherty questioned, "In any of your other facilities that are using septic systems and discharge to the ground, have they been required to install any type of special disinfection or treatment e luipm nt` " Mr. Birkhauser responded, "No." "we have provided information on what basically, our sanitary waste is comprised of. "This information is based on operating gree patient shifts a day treating eleven patients so basically, 39 patients." "From that we generate 1,716 gallons ofwater." "We have dialysis machine calibration."' "Pre and post treatment we always go through a calibrating thing, every patients system is different and based upon the treatment the machines are slightly calibrated and in fact what is going on is basically clear water going down the drainwith a little bit a saline."' "Then vire have domestic sanitary load that2sbasically - instead of havmng about 25 gallons per day we're up to about 40 gallons a day per staff member because we do a lot more hand washing pre and post. "'It also includes and accounts for janitorial services and things like that. "At one of our facilities we were required to put in a monitoring Drell." "we did that and provided in the packet of information are the analysis that is in the waste of what we call the dialysis process load." "It is in our certificate of occupancy that we do this on a bi- yearly basis." "we must use clean water, although the water duality is good here already what we wM be using is a carbon exchange program." "What the carbon does is removes chlorine's and chloranine's in the grater and thea will be going into a deionied bed." "This will remove all the elements.91 Mr. McQuaid questioned Mr. Birkhauser, "Could you provide a copy of the latest sampling results from Yarmouth?," "Could you also provide D.E.P.'s approval for a discharge permit or is Yarmouth on a treatment plant` 7 Mr. Birkhauser responded, "Yarmouth is a on a septic plant." "Basically, we're exempt from I .E.P. approval becausewe're not considered an industrial user."' `ewe fah under regular septic systems." Mr. McQuaid stated, "I have been in touch with D.E.P. prior to this appointment and they indicated they need to see your septic system plans because you're not domestic sewage." ", Ir. Birkhusr stated, "we don't fall under groundwater discharge."' "I was in touch with Frank Mezzacappa from D.E.P. on August 18, 1996." `w r. Mezzacappa