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MINUTES October 13, 1994 16 BOARD OF HEALTH <br /> center line, yah utility easements but you're not a utility company that kind of complicates <br /> matters." "I quite honestly think that the costs would be a wash." "Whatever it would <br /> cost you to bring down there would be offset by the costs of not putting in the well or the <br /> pump system." "Yes, it will cost a little bit more but not the $8,000.00." "It will be <br /> whittled down to nothing that you could easily absorb." "I don't think cost is a legitimate <br /> issue." <br /> Mr. Marsters stated, "I'm not arguing costs either, absolutely not." "I don't want <br /> to argue that point I'm not that up on it." <br /> Mr. Doherty stated, "If you had approached this person would they just say sure <br /> go ahead and do it, but if they said no then that's introducing an unreasonable delay to <br /> building on the lots." "That's beyond your control but you have not even approached <br /> them have you?" <br /> Mr. Marsters responded, "No, I haven't approached them, no." "I don't even <br /> know if there is an easement to do water there, is there?" <br /> Mr. Cram stated, "Let's postpone a decision on this until we find out whether <br /> there is an easement or not." "Maybe that's a way to approach it." "We haven't <br /> approached the financial aspects of this, it has not been the major concern but maybe it is <br /> something we should look at." "Hooking up to town water basically is a one time <br /> expense, granted you as a developer are not the one that is really going to benefit from <br /> that." "The potential homeowner or buyer, this is the one that's going to benefit, where if <br /> you have a well system you could be looking at every ten years you may have an expense <br /> as far as maintaining this well whether it be new point, new pump, whatever." "Town <br /> water is one time." <br /> Mr. Marsters stated, "Well I don't know, you hear a lot about the economics." <br /> Mr. Doherty stated, "The economic end of it is irrelevant." "We are interested in <br /> public health and undeniably the town water offers a greater public benefit than an <br /> individual well economically, maintenance wise, monitoring wise." "If you're arguing the <br /> accessibility then I am going to ask you to ask the landowner if he would grant you <br /> permission to run the line." "If he won't then that would introduce and unreasonable <br /> delay but if he would the issue of accessibility becomes mute." <br /> Mr. Marsters stated, "I am not arguing accessibility in that I want permission from <br /> this gentlemen to run across his land." "I'm arguing accessibility, do I have accessibility to <br /> town water." "That's not a question a landowner wants me to decide or not." "As the <br /> situation stands right now without questioning this individual, do I have accessibility?' <br />