10/03/1996 BOARD OF HEALTH Minutes

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i TOWN OF MASPEE BOARD OF BEALTH October 3, 1996 Meeting called to order at 7:00 p.m. Members present: Robert F. Cranm, Sr. and John T. Doherty TIE TAPE IS NOT PART of THE MEETING IT IS FOR THE PURPOSE of TRANSCRIPTION ONLY. Mr. Robert F. Cram, Sr., Chairman 1. warrants signed. 2. Mr. Cram motioned to postpone approving the minutes until next week's meeting when all three Board members are in attendance, Mr. Doherty seconded. 3. Co of letter from D.E.P. to Au at re: I_i .A. Flan - fir. Doherty stated, "The letter only addresses some of the monitoring wells and the sparging process that they want to conduct underneath the building or on the property it elf." "I really didn't see anything regarding identifying the extent of the plume, the edges of the plume, the toe of the plume and what kind of action they are going to take." Mr. McQuaid stated, "I spoke to the people from D.E.P. this week and they confirmed the fact that they agree to the location of Wither southward monitoring wells beyond Quinaquisset Avenue." "They were in the field this Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday installing these wells." `'we won't receive the test results for two or tree weeks however, they have indicated from AWARD'S modeling of the ground flow direction it appears, and D.E.P. is confident with this, that the plume migration will follow the groundwater direction and most likely discharge into Quaker Run which is well north of the Bayridge subdivision and wM eventually discharge into the bay." `Plumes will die until they reach a surface body of water then they will rise again." "If their hypothesis i correct, that it will flow into Quaker Run, and in D.E.P.'s opinion is wiU not affect the Bayridge subdivision. Mr. Doherty questioned, "Does AWARD have any predictions on what affect that will have once it starts discharging into the bay 37