07/14/2022 BOARD OF HEALTH Minutes

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ei �s 6 Town of I.a.0pee °no BOARD OF HEALTH 16 GREAT NECK ROAD NORTH MASHPEE, MASSACHUSETTS 02649 =��,5�`� (508) 539-1426 `` Fax(508)477-0496 PublipHeidth Prevent. Promote. Protect. BOARD OF HEALTH — PUBLIC SESSION Mashpee Town Hall—Wacluoit Meeting Room Minutes of the Meeting of July 14, 2022 Board Members Present: Member Absent: Also Present: Brian Baumgaertel, Chair Christine Willander,Assistant Health Agent Ernest Virgilio,Vice-Chair Kripani Patel, Clerk Chair Brian Baumgaertel called the Board of Health meeting to order at 6:11 PM. OLD BUSINESS 1. Status of septic failures around Santuit Pond. Mrs. Willander commented that, when the Board last discussed the status of the properties with failed septic systems that were identified during the Santuit Pond Survey,it was prior to the May Town Meeting and before the Select Board voted to withdraw the article to fund the 25% design plan for Phase 2. At that time, I believe we were all anticipating that funding would be approved and that, per its authority under 310 CMR 15.305(1)(b), the Board could utilize enforceable agreements to extend repair timeframes for those systems beyond the two years stipulated in Title 5, with certain requirements to pump the system at a frequency that would prevent an imminent health hazard,and to tie into sewer within five years. Those extensions could only be granted if there was a fiscal commitment and plan in place to sewer those areas, which is not currently the case. The first round of the Santuit Pond Survey Order Letters were dated September 9, 2021, which could mean that, in a few months, it will already have been a year since some of those failures were identified, and no orders to repair/upgrade those failed systems have been sent out by this office. In fact, it was the recommendation of the Board and the Health Agent that no action be taken until the status of the sewer plan for that area was determined. Ms. Willander stated that, where we do not know the status of the sewer phases—whether the Town is still considering altering the Comprehensive Plan to facilitate sewering of the area around Santuit as part of Phase 2—nor are there any guarantees that funding will be approved;and where we now have to consider the implications of proposed amendments to DEP regulations relative to nitrogen sensitive areas, the Board should render an opinion as to when and how to address these failures(22 failed,—7 cesspools). During a conversation with Town Engineer, Ray Jack, he indicated that he is going to propose to the Sewer Commission that the comprehensive plan include the areas around the ponds as Phase 2, and he anticipates that sewers would be available in those areas in 2026.