e e e e [Music] p [Music] Board of Health meeting in March 25th 2024 please note this meeting is being recorded Ed and will be available short available shortly Hereafter for scheduled and On Demand viewing on any smartphone or tablet device if anyone else is recording this meeting please notify the chairman pursuant to Governor hey's March 29th 2023 signing of the acts of 2023 extending certain covid-19 measures adopted during the state of emergency suspending certain provisions of the open meeting law General Law chapter 30A section 20 until March 31st 2025 this meeting of the chadam Board of Health is being conducted in person and via remote participation every effort will be made to ensure that the public can adequately access the proceedings as provided for in the order a reminder that persons who would like to listen to this meeting while in progress may do so by calling 158 945 4410 and the conference ID is 636 332 568 pound or join the meeting online via Microsoft teams through the link in the posted agenda while this is a live broadcast in simoc cast on chadam TV channel 8 and 1072 despite our best efforts we may not be able to provide realtime access we will post a record of this meeting on the town's website as soon as possible now I'll turn the meeting over to our chairman Dr Noble Hansen yeah thank you it shall be the policy of this board to conduct its meetings under the open meetings law so as to encourage public participation whenever time permits and as part of agenda item discussions uh we have three things on the agenda today but first let's establish a quorum and when I call your name please say present uh Carol Boyce present uh Richard Edwards present uh Ron Broman I think is online present and myself noble Hansen present so we have a quorum uh okay first on the agenda is um uh the airport commission making a a presentation on uh lead fuel in the aviation gas uh huntlee Harrison and Bill Schultz and this is Mr Schultz I believe coming to the podium indeed it is well good afternoon everybody so let me just make a couple opening statements if I can the United States has made enormous progress uh in reducing lead emissions both both in the atmosphere and in soils between 1980 and 19 and 2018 air Le concentrations actually have been reduced by 99% according to uh EPA studies uh the highest areas of a concentration remaining are near smelting operations battery recycling centers and places where metal processing is done but piston aircraft that bird Leed fuel uh has been recognized as still one of the largest remaining aggregate uh sources of lead emissions in the atmosphere and because of this the EPA uh has evaluated the impact of uh lead emissions over the 13,000 or from the 13,000 airports that uh operate piston powered airplanes which in fact burn LED fuel so today what I like to just do for the benefit of the group and those listening is to kind of go over a couple of the topics first of all address what is Avgas uh there's some misconceptions with respect to that uh why does the industry continue to use lead and fuel uh we'll talk a little bit about the epa's endangerment finding and uh what's being done currently by uh Regulators as well as industry to eliminate the use of AB Gas um specifically talk about the eagle program so first and foremost Avgas uh is a fuel that's used by pistonpowered airplanes uh not turbine powerered airplanes so I I make this reference because at a chatam we have both piston powerered airplanes as well as turboprop airplanes and and pure jet aircraft operating in and out it's this conversation is really just specific about the Piston powered aircraft because the turbo prop and the jet aircraft are using jet fuel jet uh uh jet a fuel which does not contain lead there's about 220,000 US aircraft that uh are relying on 100 low Le fuel uh AB Gas and it's the properties of uh Aviation fuel that makes it distinctly different than what is being burned in automobiles today uh it's interesting about 180 g 180 million gallons of Av gas is consumed each year uh throughout the entire us all piston powerered airplanes and this is about just to give it some perspective and context it's about the same amount of gas that's being burned by automobiles in 4 hours in a day so a very small amount or small quantity relative to the fuel Burns of automobiles this represents a benefit and also a challenge and we'll talk a little bit about the challenge of having such a small uh consumption the properties of the Avgas are somewhat unique in that airplanes operate in a unique environment uh aircraft obviously are operating at altitudes which introduces um the uh higher or lower pressure high altitude uh regime for those who remember your uh physics from high school um Bo's law is working in uh in this environment we also uh have to operate in airplane or in areas where there's extreme temperatures so even though the surface temperatures might be in the 80s or 90s at altitude the temperatures can easily go of freezing so it's that that environment that makes AB Gas somewhat unique the other aspect of this is that high compression engines typically found in uh the high performance single engine or multi-engine aircraft those high compression engines need to burn a fuel that is high octane and it's uh this high octane is what's important to avoid what some of us if if you think back a little bit with your car there used to be uh we used talk about engine knock uh we could hear as you accelerated your car if you were burning a low octane fuel a regular uh grade fuel sometimes you would hear an a knock in the engine and that was really premature detonation in the cylinders and that premature detonation in aircraft is a bit more exaggerated or can be and it's a it's a a very dangerous uh thing that can happen to an engine it when a high octane or a high compression engine uh experiences premature detonation you actually can create a mechanical failure of that engine of course that translates into a situation where an aircraft engine can be deemed uh unreliable and uh result in that engine failure so that's why there's a a major concern about that um shifting gears just a little bit and I apologize if I'm a bit Elementary in here but I just want to go through it uh the type of lead that's in leaded fuel is Tetra ethyl ethanol uh ethyl excuse me Tetra ethyl also known as Teel uh it's an additive that's put into the fuel um it's a additive that actually Bo boosts the octane of fuel thus going back to my previous statement uh helps reduce the possibility of predetonation or engine knock uh the ban on Teal in the automobile industry uh was completed in about 1986 and that's that big contributor towards uh reducing emissions lead emissions by that 99% uh it has has not been banned in Avgas yet uh because there hasn't been a safe alternative um say an alternative that's widely available um and of course we all know that lead is toxic and if it's inhaled or ingested it does have implications uh potentially to Health in in October of of 2018 the uh excuse me in October of 18th of 2023 last year the EPA uh issued their letter of determination and they uh these are quotes uh cited that lead May reasonably be anticipated to endanger Public Health uh welfare under the Clean Air Act and that the EPA and the FAA had already begun working on proposals to consider regulatory options to manage uh the lead admissions from these aircraft engines uh the endangerment uh finding uh was published and uh but it was a finding that was uh anticipated from earlier comments from the uh from the EPA so just to touch base a little bit under here on how fuel is regulated and uh regulations are managed uh it's it falls under the Clean Air Act uh the EPA does have the authority in consultation with the FAA and that's that's an important comment to make in consultation with the FAA to air to manage aircraft emissions the Clean Air Act specifies in in setting standards that they must consider the the time that's needed to develop the technology and the cost and must not inad uh adversely impact safety and or noise so in the findings uh in their report they go into rather detail uh with respect to the uh effect of lead in in the air specifically as it relates around airports and they cite that lead concentrations are uh typically well below the national ambient air quality standards uh they also recognize that uh aircraft operating at a airports that they the result is a higher concentration of lead in close proximity to uh the runup areas and this is the area typically at the end of the runway or near the ends of the runway where aircraft conduct their pre-flight engine checks uh these levels of these higher levels of lead as the engines are being tested for takeoff uh dissipate rather quickly um and are within distance is very close to that uh area where the aircraft are are doing the runup they found that within uh 50 MERS is the highest area of concentration and uh but that lead levels were uniformly below even though it was the higher concentration we still below the uh the levels that that were expected and should be the standard uh EPA and and FAA are both uniformly concerned about the potential of lead sources and uh are uh this was the result of their finding so anticipating uh about a year before um the the determination the FAA uh and the other uh major industry groups like aopa which is the aircraft pilots and Associate Pilots Association the Experimental Aircraft Association the national business aircraft Association and others got together and said it's an issue it's coming uh let's try to get ahead of it and so they formed a program called The Eagle Coalition the eagle Coalition stands for the eliminate Aviation gasoline lead emissions uh trying to boil it down a little bit um to not get too wordy here it's all about trying to come up with a uh transition from a leaded based fuel for piston airplanes to to an unleaded base Fuel and to and obviously the the purpose of this was to mitigate um the you know lead air or lead in the air uh contamination uh they try to link this to or they did link it to uh the high performance engines which are dependent on the high octane fuels and the goal was to establish uh uh an environment where lead is out of the fuel system from by 2030 and so there really have been two directions that the industry started pursuing uh some of these in uh some of these companies have actually go back about 12 to 13 years on their research and development of an unleaded fuel with high octane uh they've run into some issues it's a it's a much more complex um uh problem then initially hits uh initially is available um first of all it's the the FAA does not regulate the standards for fuel uh fuel is typically regulated through a series of uh IND uh independent testing uh ASM standards and some of these companies that I've shown you here on the screen have taken different approaches to it uh some are at odds with each other uh the company on the left which is the general aviation modifications company gamy uh is probably one of the furthest along they do have an unleaded fuel uh it is 100 octane which is what's this the goal is to get to 100 a octane Leed fuel uh but they have not gone through any ASM standards uh testing so it's a product that's out there uh in order to use the fuel uh an individual aircraft uh must be uh receive what they call an STC a supplemental type certificate which then authorizes them to use that fuel um and that's something that each aircraft today would have to go out and uh get on their own on the far right side is Swift Fuel and Swift has developed a uh lower OCT octane unleaded fuel for Aviation um it's a 94 octane which doesn't satisfy the requirements for the high compression engines and they have gone through an ASM standard uh testing with their fuel but they haven't achieved yet the 100 Octane and so if you uh do any research on them they're they've been projecting 2025 as more than likely a roll roll out for that type of fuel now some of the challenges that exist is if we have these different fuel suppliers first of all number one is they're doing the research and development of the formulas they're not doing the manufacturing of the fuel so then they have to go out and find a oil producing uh fuel producing company like Exxon or or one of the others to make the fuel for them and of course when the opening comments that I made is that the amount of fuel that's burned in general aviation aircraft is so small and the investment is so big to do this production that uh there's some question at as to uh how soon we can get an industry to uh company to respond to make this fuel um the second is that if we have different companies making fuel to different standards can these fuels mix with each other uh airplane takes off out of chadam and flies to North Carolina he may take off with 100 low Le here fly to North Carolina they have gamy fuel or Swift fuel can they be mixed what what are the regulations for each of the fuel types can they use it um it starts to get a bit com uh complicated uh additionally airports have to store fuel uh can they mix fuels together in the same fuel tank so these are the the elements that the industry is is still trying to work through the conclusion though is that the FAA and the EPA and all of the major industry groups including manufacturers engine and airframe manufacturers all support the need to get rid of the fuel uh all support the target of getting the F uh lead out of the fuel by 2030 um Eagle uh the eagle program was developed to focus their efforts on that uh there's a tremendous amount of support from both FAA and all the industry groups to to achieve that and and just as a a closing statement the chadam airport uh commission is closely uh watching this we'd like to be able to be on The Cutting Edge as well as uh we're we're committed to uh implementing any uned fuel program as it rolls out from FAA and and uh EPA and that concludes my presentation yes sir uh I have one question it's been 40 years since Tetra lead has been banned in automobiles there has been tremendous Improvement in automobile engines in other engines my boat has an outboard engine that makes 4 25 horsepower yeah Burns regular gas high high not Leed gas why has the aviation industry been unwilling or unable to modify their engines so you don't need to use lead in them this just seems absurd I mean we have computerized engines that automatically supress preignition that you know you can have a high performance and it doesn't knock and yet the airlin industry the the general aviation industry goes along using engines that appear to have a 100-year old technology uh uh and no impetus to to fix this well I think I think you really hit the nail on the head um the first thing is that the automobile industry the engine technology is how it managed being able to go from leaded fuel to an unleaded fuel uh automob engine technology is just screamed in comparison to uh the aircraft engine technology and you're absolutely correct um when you look at the major uh manufacturers of airplane engines there's really two um it's Lycoming engines and Continental engines and now I'm giving you my personal opinion my personal observation um if you look at an airplane engine that was manufactured 40 50 years ago and compare that to an aircraft engine today they're not that dramatically different that technology that the automobile industry enjoys has not found its way to the aircraft power plants and I long term I think that's the going to be the solution in the short term uh with the number of airplanes that are out there the 220,000 the focus is on coming up with a a different fuel supply as opposed to pushing the engine technology but ultimately probably it's going to have to come from both uh yeah just a couple more thought just a couple thoughts um so the the concern that's been brought up is lead yes in the atmosphere in the ground have there has has there been any testing around the airport for lead say at the ends of the runways or that Vernal pool or anything like that in a proactive way to see if there's a problem not that I'm aware of no okay and then one of the suggestions was uh relocating say where the engines do their warm-up and their pre-flight checks from the ends of the runway to someplace in the middle so it's farther away from has has the airport taken any proactive approach to adjust that as as was suggested by the eagle group I guess um I'm not aware of any uh direct um repositioning of quote unquote the runup area is that something that could be done or be helpful yeah we could think we could sounds simple but I mean obviously not an expert in the airport or or flying but yeah we could consider that it could be considered um I want to think it all the way through um but yeah I mean that's something that's not uh that difficult to do yeah it sounds like it so but go over again now so there is an unlet aviation gas available now by this this gami uh company it's not widely available it's they have created the fuel created it um there have been a couple of large Fleet operators specifically the one that comes to immediate mind is the University of North Dakota agreed to use gamy fuel and as a result of uh they they have a large Fleet so they get a lot of hours built into that uh experience uh unfortunately just recently they took their engines off the fuel because they started to notice um that there was some unusual wear in the engines who is this now the University of North Dakota okay and there's some there's debate within the industry whether they were doing the proper testing to evaluate the fuel Burns and the effect of of the engines on the engines so there's some debate about that but uh there isn't a widely available uh Source right now uh gam is probably the closest to making that happen but again for whatever reason and I can't explain it um they have chosen to not go through ASM standard uh testing which has given a lot you know raised the eyebrows of a lot of airc C owners and manufacturers uh as to you know what the long-term impact of that fuel will be on the engines right and and that testing is the one that's done for each plane each engine go over that again there's ASM standards okay um and gamy has chosen not to do the standards and what is that standard though expl oh it's I couldn't explain it's it's a just generally what what does it have to do with it's making sure that the it's the fuel is performing the way it's intended to for the for that aircraft for all air yeah whatever aircraft yes whatever application whereas the second the second major source right now is Swift fuels and they say that they will uh have a 100 low Le they're forecasting it in widely available in 2025 with ASM standard testing um okay so uh I guess the first thought is that you know 2030 is 6 years from now that that's seems like a long time for a problem that's been going on so I mean my interest in interest is in what is being kind of proactively to to move the ball um I did read just in a brief look that I believe this gami is be is is shortly going to be sending fuel into to California airports for this same kind of problem making it available there this spring I think read so it's it's getting it sounds like it might be getting out there and maybe would be available so I guess my my big question would be what is the airport doing proactively or or specific planning for unlet gas becoming available trying to get access to the fuel early not later um I've read that you can even mix UNL and Leed I mean there's all sorts of things but the question generally would be what's the airport doing proactively to get the ball rolling so that we could be early in the process of of getting the lead out of the the gas at the chadam airport yeah I think this the um first of all the airport commission is is paying very close attention to what the industry is doing yeah uh quite frankly right now there's not a lot that can be done um there's no know again gamy is a fuel that is going to be used by some operators in California uh there are a series of threats for lawsuits between some of these manufacturers and I'm not an authority on California uh their policies but they said that they wanted to have a commercially available fuel unleaded for aviation in in this hun lowl regime uh starting March of this year this past March 1st uh they didn't do the atsm standards so there's been a loss or a threat of lawsuits that since they didn't meet the commercially available uh standard that that's really not a viable option yet and uh so you know there's really no way at this point in time to go down a particular path because there is no path that's been really laid out for to actually get the fuel you mean yeah y um I think California's on the Forefront of trying to eliminate the lead in aviation gasoline as I as I understand it they're I trying to be very strict yeah they are yes yeah yeah and then just in terms of of sort of the airport um who would there be new infrastructure needed to to take unlet to have unlet gas tanks andem question that is the that is one of the bigger questions because if if and I'll I'm going to hypothesize here if the fuels are able to be mixed then there wouldn't need to be uh separate tanks you could mix fuels from different suppliers say that again if if there were different suppliers and those fuels could be mixed could be mixed Blended then you wouldn't need a dedicated uh unique tank for each you know supplier uh the first question really starts with what what can an airplane do so an airplane's got fuel tanks and they're buying fuel as they fly across the country can they start mixing their fuel and if they can well then you can back it up and say the suppliers can uh so it's at this point in time it's just undetermined now that is one of the goals of the eagle program if if you look closely at one of their pillar statements is that they want it so that the fuels can be mixed if that if that occurs and likely will then there won't be a need for separate fuel storage tanks at airports nor will there would be a concern at the airplane operator mixing fuel whether it's it wasn't if it wasn't okay then chadam airport would have to get a separate set of tanks and delivery system for unlet fuel in the transition phase I guess potentially but it's unlikely it'll go that way because because they'll they'll the standards everybody's trying to raise that bar and that's one of the elements that they'd like to see happen is the the ability to mix 100 low Le fuels and then just one last sort of a procedure question so you're the airport commission yes and then the airport has A manager that I I'm not an expert here I say up front but they who runs the business parts of the airport does he does he run the fuel supply part of it yes and so who would make the decision about when you get fuel and it's whether it's unlet or whatever and and pushes to get it into the airport is it available contact people does that is that the airport manager or do you tell him what to do or how does that work just from a procedure standpoint uh well I'll let Huntley answer that question to Chairman that's be my last question it's above beyond my it's above my pay grade you want to answer that y my class okay this is Mr Harrison for for the record Huntley Harrison airport commission good great thank you uh couple of things and uh to answer the very most recent question yes the airport commission would make that decision for the airport manager and you you could tell that you want to get unlad fuel in and tank or not t we would ultimately be the the people who decide it yes now backing up the acronym ASM was mentioned a couple of times and for those of you who may not know what that is it's the American Standards for testing in materials it's like Underwriters Laboratory which I think we're all UL which I think we're all familiar with it's very similar to that the we talked about what if we could bring that fuel in right now the unlet fuel where would we put it well we don't have a place uh there's no place even planned right now for it it would have to sit in a truck very similar to what we have now with a jeta fuel for the turbines uh that's an infrastructure change that would have to be considered of course there's cost involved in that perhaps the FAA would help us with or Mass DOT but we don't know we haven't even investigated it yet um so right now even if it were available tomorrow unless we had a truck that sat on the airport we couldn't we couldn't do anything with it the question about the runup areas to me they're tradeoffs with everything could we change the runup area well the turbines run up on the apron where the general aviation aircraft go to the runup areas near the ends of the runways if we were to bring the general aviation aircraft back to the run to the apron area and have them run up the trade-off would be the neighbors and they'd start complaining about the noise because right now where the runup areas are are relatively I'm not saying completely but relatively out of the way and buffered by trees to to keep the noise down so I mean you know I'm not saying it doesn't eliminated completely but if we brought it back to the apron and that's actually where the helicopters also run up um I think we'd start getting complaints noise complaints from The Neighbors on that why are you running up all these airplanes right here um so that's something you know we obviously have to be sensitive to that and you know on a on a day like today if it was good weather and it was quiet perhaps yeah you could you could run up on the apron there's nothing keeping us from doing that except for the fact that talk about the noise footprint um aircraft engines my opinion on aircraft engines is that the industry has looked at it over the last years as if it ain't broke don't fix it because aircraft engines have been working extremely well over the last 40 50 years and a lot of the general aviation aircraft that are flying today are 40 to 50 years old it's not uncommon to see a 70 1970 1980s aircraft flying and those engines obviously were were geared to the unleaded fuel I mean the leaded fuel the 100 low lead in fact before that it was 94 uh 94 octane for the low compression engines or lower compression engines um the other thing I think that manufacturers look at are statistics that show that there is minimal problem or impact by Leed fuel by by statistics on airports where they have done studies nck is one that I think of in particular where they did testing and they found that the lead levels at Nantucket airport on a busy day on they did they did an average but generally on a busy day were much less than the stand than the the the Baseline standard that would be problematical and we have fewer operations at chadam than Nantucket ever will Net's the second busiest airport in the state believe it or not in the summertime and even through the year it's pretty busy even busier than uh hyas so when you do lead level testing at an airport like that and they're below the standard or Baseline then we can look at that and say well not that it's right but we're below it and if we're going by EPA standards then that's what we're that's what we're dealing with so that's the best I can I can tell you from the commission's point of view we're going to look at it we're going to stay on top of it as best we can uh given the in implications of the industry right now and and what it means it's going to be a while yeah that was my sort of my last thought can you give a rough timeline when when do you think unlet these unlet fuels will be getting to airports like chadam based on what if they're aiming for 2030 I think that's what we have to aim for too so you're so you're so you're you no we're not planning for it so you don't think we haven't we haven't done anything any discussion regard other than what commissioner Schultz and I have talked about in terms of getting the word out to you all basically what it's about where things stand and if 2030 is the guideline for unleaded gas then we'll try to hit that but I think I really think that's going to be a moving Target uh but presumably you would you would probably be thinking about some kind of a phase in of unleaded gas as it becomes available and not wait until the 2030 day to start it but see if you we want to be absolutely certain that every airplane that comes in here needs gas can use the gas and it's cleared and it meets all standards before we put it in any airplane if an airplane comes in and we give them some gasoline that doesn't work and they have an accident I'm not implying to jump the gun I'm just saying that um it would be nice if they could it could kind of be phased in as these goal posts are reached and things are proven and it gets approved and all that that's all I'm saying but thank you that's very helpful thank you other questions go ahead yeah with regard to the uh tanks if the commission made the decision to switch to unleaded fuel could you not just pump out the existing tank and fill that tank with unleaded fuel why why would tanker trucks or if they say they can be mixed yeah sure I mean yeah yeah so there's no reason why your existing tanks wouldn't work for unleaded fuel no I never said that right no Carol um yeah on your um Capital Improvement plan you have 2020 eight is when you're going to be dealing with the jet fuel correct why don't you think it should be a little more prioritized instead of pushing it off till 2028 it's all a matter of money availability from the FAA because they fund the majority 90% of that that's F that's the jet a tank and ul94 is available now for use at airports uh I was unaware of that yeah 94 is available but that doesn't address the high octane or excuse me the high compression engines those are four low compression engines well how many planes that go into chatam airport would be able to use the ul94 I I don't have a number I don't I don't know either it would be probably the the small Piper Cubs that are you know they're they're 1950s Circa 50s and 60s or 40s and I saw articles today that the 100 octane is currently being used in California and Colorado something like 35 airports are currently using it yeah that's so it is getting more available yeah that's the gamy fuel that I was talking about it's the U gami fuel that uh 100 o OE 100 octane that's hasn't met any standards any ASM standards well they're using it at 35 year P it's true I think we use a lot of things that aren't yet standardized other questions from the board okay yes Judy would the you're talking they're talking about California using the um 100 uh gam fuel would you feel that would have opposition from Pilots to using that here in Massachusetts or at our airport if it was provided or available you mean right now yeah just saying I mean I do is that because it doesn't meet the ASM standards because I don't think I don't think they would trust it yet right and it's the standard that makes people trust something and as long as a it's tested in all those engines because every aircraft has a an engine some of them are slightly different you get a Beach beachcraft Bonanza that has one engine you might have one sitting right next to it has a slightly different engine in it so they have to be tested in both and make sure after hours of testing that there would be no problem like the University of North Dakota their their whole what was it their whole flight school I believe they were testing it and they found problems after I don't know how many hours but they they finally said no no we're we're done so what do you think the difference is in California why why are they pushing it or are they approaching it from a different standpoint my opinion of that it's all political because some airports they were threatening to close airports in California the California government banned Leed fuel of all types automobile including an air aircraft including air the Cal the state of California banned leaded fuel in aircraft that's correct so they shut did they shut down some airports or small planes to pick some threats weren't there well we're in the middle of it right now so so California is kind of the test case for the rest of the country at this point correct and maybe Colorado correct but there are some Pilots now that have to fly to Nevada or Oregon or Arizona probably to get gas which is very obviously inconvenient if you had to drive to Connecticut to buy gas do the engines um care I mean well I know you have the knocking issue but that's a major issue that that is the underlying major issue but I mean if you went from the 100 OCT uned back and forth with that I guess that's what you're talking about with the mixing that could be a problem if you couldn't go from one to the other in in the engine when you say one to the other from the current 100 low Le to the current Leed to the yeah the um the gamy um it's it's very early in the uh evaluation of of that right and that's that was in part what the University of North Dakota was doing is converting their Fleet over to an unlet Fuel and then I believe it was after four months of operations they reverted back their Fleet back to 100 low Le Leed fuel okay there's a test going on right now with aircraft owners and Pilots Association and a uh is it Baron a beachcraft baron twin engine where they in on one side they're putting in 100 lowed on the other side they're putting in I think it's the gamy or the Swift the gamy uh I think it's a gam gamy and uh they're testing it out to see how the how it Compares and they might even try to mix them a little bit during this testing period we don't know haven't seen the results that's going on as we speak so there's a lot of work going on right now yeah you know and and we're just sitting we're sitting there waiting to see and we we'll address it as soon as possible right now just you know the main thrust for for what I'm thinking about is not necessarily the unleaded situation but having facilities for electric aircraft EV TOS M and and how do we how do we refuel them how do we charge them right and that's another issue that that we're kind of you know so things are things are changing very rapid ly in the technologically in the uh aircraft industry and and airports small airports you know we're always on the tail end of things unfortunately mostly because of infrastructure issues and financial issues right okay well it sounds like things may start to move uh quicker at least uh now maybe we can get questions from the the audience if people have questions or comments y I have a question sure can you go up to the mic please you come up to the mic sure thank you um identify your okay thank you uh Donna dor from chadam um do you know if the lead contamination stays in the area um and builds up or does it dissipate after the plane takes off or after do we know do we know how the area is affect Ed over time according to the EPA study that was done trying to measure the impact on a 13,000 airports they say the lead dissipates very quickly now does it accumulate I can't answer that question I can only just tell you the statement that they made was that it dissipates quickly quickly and then do we think or are we starting to think about how that might affect if it's even there while the planes are taking off and especially during the summer months when the restaurant is so busy and there are families and kids for at least an hour the restaurant's awesome but it's always an minimum of an hour weit outside um kids are playing little kids do we know what effect that might have on them even if it's for a short time again the uh that same study that I was telling about um they identified that the runup area is where the concentration is so the runup area is at the end of the runways yeah and so that's why when the question was asked can you move the runup area yes but then you move a Clans but yeah you've got to really take a look at the whole picture to make sure that makes sense uh right now my gut instinct would say maybe we could R move it on one end but not you wouldn't want to bring it close to the center of the airport okay and then I have one other question so it was I correct in understanding that it's really just the Piston planes that that use this Leed versus the turbo props props and the Jets so do we know what percent of planes using the airport are are the Pistons versus the others like is it 90% so most of the planes are using this Le field yeah say about 90% % piston yeah the vast majority of aircraft coming in at of chadam are piston powered airplanes when you when you look at the population of piston powered airplanes then you really need to cut that into two groups one is is the engines that are low uh compression engines and then the uh higher performance airplanes the higher uh uh octane or the higher compression engines okay so great okay well thank you thank you thank you good thank you uh other yes a little bit of time as soon as the student or the sightseer gets in that airplane they tax you away so they're not there for you know like they are in the runup and they're not running their engines at high power like they are in the runup area so they're in and out quickly and there's no no real issue uh yeah go ahead um just to let you know Bill one of your step up to the please step up to the mic on the gam FU oh I I if you'd like to we can put the back up I think that's helpful okay that's step up to the podium in the mic for us and introduce yourself please Paula lrin chadam I was just saying to Mr Schulz that one of the slides in his presentation did not make it on to the screen and it was the one that had um all the information on gam fuel yes thank you um to the import commission for your presentation and um a very heartfelt thank you to the Board of Health for allocating time to discuss the endangerment finding on toxic lead emissions they've decided that no um exposure to Le is um acceptable the 202030 implementation deadline is a short 6 years away as you said for um considering infrastructure but is a very long six years for continued exposure to lead emissions at the airport my foremost concern is with the health the safety and education of the public as they enjoy all the airport has to offer including the um lovely restaurant in June my first point I'd like to make is in June 2013 the FAA published the memorandum guidance on mitigating public risk associated with lead emissions from abgas you'll find that in your package um 10 years ago at the January 2014 airport commission meeting um which I was on at the time we discussed this document and its suggestion to post signage where people congregate warning the public about the possible presence of toxic lead emissions it was decided then that before posting we needed to find out what our lead exposure was the AC voted unanimously to explore the cost of lead monitoring on campus my first question I think Huntley has answered what this was this lead monitoring ever untaken I think you've reminded me that if ncka didn't have proximity to the runoff um it's a it's a windy area up on that proximity to the runoff um it's a it's a windy area up on that airport as is jadam so no you don't know Bill does not know thank you oh a legal we don't have I don't think we could assume was people online they may have been interested in this maybe not whether you continue is up to you as long as you have here I don't think you have any reason policy Sor continue so my understanding is part hearing is that the public right now cannot hear the questions is the recording still going on so they will be able to be seen ass continue well the public does appre appreciate getting out some information about unlet fuel sorry um thank you I would assume that um this would be an ongoing discussion with the uh commission and the Board of Health and we would have them back and there'd be more information going both way what the progress is so this won't be the the last um meeting we have on this issue like this but the health agent's checking to see if it's being recorded at least so if the public can't hear it or see it virtually they'll be able to see the recording at a later date what would your what would your preference be would you um want me to save my comments for another time um that's what we're trying to decide Judy's seeing if it's recorded I I we could we could just end the meeting here and come back uh here's Judy um being record it's being recorded I I would think we could since we're going to have them back and there'll be an ongoing discussion I would think we reasonably can and we're not taking a vote on this issue today that we could have the ongoing discussion and then there'd be an opportunity to come back later and and the public could get in uh on the discussion later as well so I'd say continue what you're doing oh that would be good if I can come back and have another conversation with you might it be since you brought up the question of infrastructure might I ask a few or throw out a few ideas that perhaps you've already started to discuss now since the meeting is continuing say that again I'm sorry if the meeting is continuing can I throw a few things out to you sure yes you can just since you brought up um the uh comment about infrastructure the page that had the gam information said that the FAA is is planning the 2030 is going to be when everything is running smoothly and everything is in place and I had um some comments questions also as one of your board members and um it was uh what is the airport commissions plan to put the required infrastructure in place by 2030 um the Eagles white paper states that the um npis airports and the national plan of integrated airport systems uh which I think chadam is included must plan for this safe transition by including fuel infrastructure needs in their airport planning and issues this is from the Eagles um white paper and the airports must make necessary arrangements for Supply storage and dis distribution It also says that B Money bipartisan infrastructure law money and AIP funds which the airports use is for projects are available to make this transition happen the question is applying for these monies so um my questions are the unlet fuel storage isn't in the current CIP Capital Improvement plan through 2028 although the Jed a fuel storage still appears and the question was asked about how just stay with two tanks put the existing tank I thought you said we had a maximum capacity of 10,000 tank and how many tanks can we have there's no but actually There's No Limit Oh there's no limit okay as far as I know okay but we're not going to probably have more than two okay it's a matter of space and money the money is there um the money is there with b and AIP funds so you have answered my question that Jed a is prioritized over um g at the moment at the moment will you be opening up your CIP discussions or have it at the airport commission we have our CIP meetings every September I would request an agenda item about this actually of the meeting and and request okay maybe maybe we can we can move on did was there another question yeah we have we there was a request for uh Mr SCH to go over one more slide yes and he's ready to do that okay okay okay thank you so much I will say ter um your comment is that I did put in an agenda item request in March of 2022 to discuss the 2030 deadline for um uh UNL it and how this would impact your master planning are okay thank you are there other uh comments from the uh audience somebody would like to speak uh uh go ahead yep up you can stand up by the podium with by the microphone can you I think you can is that is that Carol Bliss West chadam I just wanted to say uh put the push the button so it's green it is green okay I just wanted to say that I'm from West Adam and I my house is directly under the flight plan and I think it's important to consider this and I thank you for being open to hear our point of view because it often it gets lost in the shuffle between what the airport commission says which we don't always agree with so I think it's important that this is a very important part of the airport complexity of everything and there's other things going on at the airport which make it even more complex so I'm glad that you would be willing to slow this down so we can understand it better and make more informed decisions but the fact that you're taking this seriously is really a gift to those of us who've been trying to work directly to and we could actually smell the fumes in the air and that's anecdotally from where I live thank you okay thank you has a question on this subject I uh apparently slipped over um this was a slide that shows the um information that was provided by gamy um for their fuel uh again it's a 100 low 100 unleaded AB Gas uh they are making an STC available for all aircraft so it is available for all piston airplanes uh if the owner chooses to to uh license his airplane for it uh they claim that they can mix it at any ratio with 100 low Leed again all though this hasn't been tested by a third- party standard so I I I'm just giving you their public uh their the information they've published uh the engines they claim will run cleaner um they hope that any Refinery once they the refinery buys the license agreement can make the fuel there's no special type of uh Secret Sauce in refining this type of fuel uh the expected cost is between 50 and 90 cents per per gallon more than 100 low Le uh fuel today and of course it will require an infrastructure to create the supply chain uh for a full implementation by 20 2030 so that was that slide okay great yeah all right well um I I would say that um I I'd thank the airport commission Mr Schultz and Mr Harrison for coming here um and getting this thing roll I think it'll be an ongoing discussion with us and and followup to sort of um see this thing through with you and and help if we can I mean if there's infrastructure or something that you need that that support from the Board of Health helps you know I mean we we we we could do that and I just say one last thing um the lead levels that are tested if they're not at the like like the N airport are not above the unsafe level but there's still lead lead levels so I mean there is concern there sure um so uh that's how I would frame it up but I would again thank the airport commission for coming here I think it's very helpful to have everybody have input and um back and forth um so I think we're all done with this thank you very much all right okay okay so we're going to move on to the second item on the agenda which is a discussion review of revisions to the nitrogen loading regulations and this is a follow-up discussion to our um uh public hearing that we had and maybe Judy can just the the changes in involve few sort of housekeeping things to the a few housekeeping things to the nitrogen um uh loading regulations and then there's one key issue that had to do with the two-bedroom homes uh greater than 10,000 sare foot lots and you made some final adjustments on the wording so it was clear what the short-term rental was or the rental period was can you just go over that for us so at our um we had a public hearing on this topic uh um and we had made some uh changes to the regulation um we found the a few people that commented were supportive of the chains we we had made and um that's that's that's the yes and um so there was one comment about uh which I'll get to in a minute um clarifying the short what a short-term rental is um but uh so a few things that were added were some language in the findings in purpose we added Additionally the intensified use of seasonal properties as put a strain on drinking water resources and quality of life in the community um and we also added language that said um to address threats to the public health that result from Wastewater discharge and to minimize the strain on the town's drinking water resources and quality of life um in under sun rooms I just made an ed an edit to a bedroom or to I made it plural bedrooms and we added and roof that was just a typo um in applicability we added under F alterations additions and we added or a construction of existing dwellings where a new bedroom or additional flow is added so again that was just clarifying under applicability under variances um we talked where we talk about um Innovative alternative we added best available nitrogen reducing technology in accordance with Title 5 and that's the language that they're using when they discuss um Innovative Alternatives now so the the meat of the um the changes and in the section that was of the most concern when we originally changed this was um under variances section 6.2 uh we added the language that first it said originally it said existing properties that already exceed the requirements of section 5.1 and 5.2 will not be allowed an extra bedroom we' have added to that now it says not withstanding the two bedroom properties on Lots greater than 10,000 s ft² may be allowed a third bedroom upon review by the board Health in accordance with the requirements of 6.1 a b and c all such variances granted may require conditions as defined by the board including a deed restrict a deed restricting the use of the properties to owner occupied or for General excuse me or for rentals greater than 31 consecutive calendar days in length and in parenthesis no short-term rentals so that is is the majority there a couple of typos that were corrected um and there may be some numbering that needs to be reordered once I clean it up for for printing but those are that that's the the change okay and those pretty much are the um changes that were discussed at the uh public hearing that we have talked about so I would ask the board are there other comments or questions regarding the changes and then any uh comments from from people in person here or from online see none don't you see any nope okay I think we probably this yeah so I'd like to make a motion to accept the uh changes to the uh nitrogen loading uh regulation as listed here I'll second okay um and then we can probably go ahead and take a Voice vote uh um Carol Boyce approve Dr Edwards approve um Ron Broman online yes approve and Noble Hansen approved okay so those new regulations are approved and the big thing there is the effective de oh the effective date will be upon publishing um which is do we know the date Diane no it might be if I can get it in this week or be next week yes so it'll either be this week or the following week but we can start accepting applications um you can start accepting applications and then you'll post them after the I I'm just going to do a summary in the paper so instead of publishing the whole thing we we just have to publish the majority of it and that's the big thing okay so if I put it in this week it should be in for next week so next Thursday whatever that date is would be the effective date April 5th 1 two 3 4th maybe fourth or 5th yeah okay so short will be shortly we'll just say uh effective date upon publication and we'll put that date in there okay great um good so I think we have finished up on that changes and the revote on that on the changes so the nitrogen loading regulation which goes back a while now okay that is the second item and then the last item on our um agenda is uh discussion with tenant Emily cross 39 metal Brook Road um having to do with a housing complaint and is Emily cross here is that yes I am online Okay can just identify yourself and and go ahead okay I'm Emily cross I'm uh formerly of 39 Meadowbrook Road in North Chad um current sandwich resident um this uh thank you so much for having me and putting me on the agenda this um is is largely process related um to do with uh essentially a a lead order from the health department um that you know uh back in January of 2023 it was sent to the wrong address not of the landlords but of the tenants um and I understand the landlord himself probably had a you know duty to disclose um I won't speak much about him because his lawyer is present here today um so essentially what I'm looking for is um there were were there were three in addition to the order that was never sent to the tenants back in January of 23 there were three dates um on which the department reached out to the landlords to you find out what the status was those were 60 days from the order 90 days from the order and uh 120 days from the order that would have been March 28th May 3rd and June 30th um and and so those were uh via email and you know not copied to the tenant so I was hoping that process wise um I know that your goal is to keep your residents safe um when they're a child under five and lead paint found I'm hoping um you might be able to do a little bit more in terms of either following up on the certified letter in this case it just went to the wrong ZIP code because I resided in North chadam rather than chadam proper um and that perhaps when there are instances of needing updates based on timelines of those such orders like the 60 90 and 120 days I'm hoping that perhaps when there's a child under six in the home that we just add a process of reaching out to the tenant um you know for for information or to disseminate information and um the details of this case are not not very relevant here but the the fact is that when when that uh certified letter did did arrive in August of 2023 um that was sent in January uh we were out of the house within 15 days so we do wish that we had had that opportunity back in January of 2023 and and saved some stress and some time and likely what it say the owner some some work as well um so I was hoping that we could speak to that and um and just add perhaps an extra layer of of safety when um when something specific like a a child or in in if the lead is you know reaches a certain um you know urgency so that's about all I have could you just say that last again uh could you just say that last sentence that last thought again explain that again I didn't quite understand certainly so if there is an added sense of urgency you know um with with lead lead paint or the abatement specifically like having a child under six in the home um I would love to you know add some strength to the to the process of disclosure okay uh thank you so I guess it's it's an issue of um followup when there is a lead determination and then correspondence with if it's a rental uh owner versus tenant and I guess Judy you've been dealing with this so maybe you can just fill us in a bit here yeah um Miss cross is correct she did not get the letter but we did not realize that um it did go to the wrong ZIP code and it never got returned to the to us I don't believe it was sent certified to her it was sent certified to the owners would you go back to the beginning and just tell us what this is all about I so this was was there a complaint to the Board of Health from the tenant so miss cross she called us and said she had a child under the age of six living there with her and she asked that we come and do a lead paint so I did a lead paint determination I'm not a lead a fully certified lead P paints um certified uh inspector but I can go in and do some minor tests um and if I find any signs of them of any lead paint then it gets sent to the landlord who's required under Massachusetts childhood lead paint prevention law to um get a full inspection completed and those were the timelines that um Miss cross mentioned um I think it's 30 60 90 120 for the full um dting um so you found evidence that you thought might be lead paint and sent a letter to the landlord to do this so weent an order letter and I immediately became um in discussion with the landlord who I felt and made good faith e effort to meet the time frames but missed some of them um the inspection was completed um they had problems finding um the right contractors to do the work it was minor lead pain on the outside of the um most of it was on the outside of the building um on a basement window um I think there might have been a door um I I'd have to I don't have it in front of me so I don't remember um so it was the type of work that they could have um a regular worker do if he did the state certification it's like an online training that they do so you don't have to have a lead paint um an official lead paint d letter come in you can have you can do it yourself a homeowner can do it themselves um they did miss some of the deadlines they'd eventually got it done um I believe by August um we do have a a letter and after the after the work is done then the lead paint inspector has to go back in not me the full inspector and do a um a lead paint inspection again and certify that it's been completely deleted which they did and we have a copy of that in the file um you know it it's hard in this you know economy to find people to do work and they had they had hired somebody this is that what they told me and I have no reason not to believe him they had hired somebody and then they didn't show up and then they they pivoted to getting their own workers to get the training to do the work themselves and it was eventually done um I don't feel that that mcross child was ever in in any danger at all it was mostly outside um so and since then we've had um other issues uh complaints from the tenant that we've tried our best to respond to and um so the major complaint is that there was a question about lead paint the the owner got the letter but the tenant wasn't informed that there was lead painting so she didn't no she was informed I mean I believe she was informed something about that didn't go to the right zip the letter I sent she didn't get a copy of the letter until until August 17 she called and I provided it to her at that point so up until then she didn't know there was a question about lead paint in the house is that the problem I mean yes I don't know that for a fact but yeah she did not contact me at any point from the original complaint up until August um so I I never there was no con conversations with her so I assumed she got the letter and knew what was going on the the contractors had been in doing the work and you know so what is the request the request is at the Board of Health when there is a possibility of lead point is more uh effective and notifying the tenant is that that's what this is all about yes just so that there's no you know seven month delay before you know the the ability until the decisions become part of you know the tenants wheelhouse um from other things you know that that went on in in that house getting that information back in um January February March would have you know would have significantly changed the way that the next year sort of you know came to play so I I would appreciate any kind of extra layer and you know and Judith and Lucas have been wonderful um uh but I you know it's it's really doesn't seem like anybody's fault but because of that because of the incorrect address and just because no followup um you know it was it it it changed the situation and um and so I just I'd love for the you know for some maybe a a letter to go out or a phone call um or maybe even to uh make sure that the owner themselves has made the disclosure at that point um but anyway any extra layer of safety for the tenants and children I have a question she notified the Board of Health she was concerned because she had a child under the age of six and wanted the home tested the lead paint right so she notified you and when January when when was that notification I believe the the initial inspection was either January or early February February okay so she notified you about having a child and was had her concerns you went out did an inspection was she there to let you in the house yes and then someone else went in to do an inspection yes so she had to let them them in the house so this I I don't know I mean no and and presumably Workman came in and did went in and did the work I mean all this was going on I never realized notified about the only I don't understand I wasn't notified of the results so um in an effort to make sure that no other you know busy citizen is did you try calling the board of help and asking you could have called and asked when they were all done with the work okay yep all right I mean I feel bad that there was some Communications issues and um perhaps we can do better on that front Julie let me ask you so if if if the lead is in a home that's being rented so there's an owner in a tenant what's the usual process you notify both or you don't notify the owner and their respons to notify the tenant I mean how does all that work from your standpoint um I mean we copy yes there's certain documents that go to the tenant and certain documents that go to the owner a lot of them are the same um and again we did have a they're sent by regular mail it's not registered mail I mean you don't the we sent the one to the um owner registered certified um but I don't believe Emily's went and it never came back so that's why we never knew she never got it so was certified there was a um you have a copy of the the card I believe in the documentation with the the tracking number that could have been you know followed up on was you to you yours was not sent yeah certified or the one to me was certified so when I did get it on August 17th I had to come in and sign we sent it out the second time certified I think is that correct no that was the original lost in the mail since January um okay well packet regardless um you know we did not realize and again um this all took place in February and I did not hear from her until August and by that point we were it was resolved it was basically resolved no they they actually only resolved it after we found out about it so the um the no I had been in constant contact with the owner on this um at every 30 60 90 days um reminding them that the deadlines were up and that they needed to you know get the person in there to complete the complete the delting and then get us the final inspection report so we actually asked the owners why the DNL construction was going you know coming to do the work um and they they they went out of their way to um to not mention that it was lead related um so there was you know some effort was made to keep it from us and I just feel like if we had known from the town you know if the town had been certain that they'd notified us then that's really what I'm looking for all right okay well well okay I think we can move on all right so miscommunication and um uh the health department deals with this sort of thing all the time so they're trying to do what's right and um um this may have been less than ideal from your standpoint but we appreciate you coming and letting us hear about it and um we're trying to do what's right thank you so much okay any other okay great um any comments from the public or online about this issue or nope okay all right thank you very much okay and then um that was that's our last agenda item and then I just say um any anybody have uh old business new business they want to bring up quickly something about grass yeah we can old business Well mhill Road so he never got the letter he never picked it I'm sorry he never picked up the original letter sent by D um they had to wait until they got it back or located it before they could um start the clock ticking on the order um so that was hand delivered I think it it was last the beginning of last week or the end of the week before um by D with a police escort it was put at his house so now the clock is ticking officially was he there no he was not there I don't believe so he wasn't served with this not was put on his front door so we don't know he can say he didn't get it no but I think the state the state has said they they consider that the clock has officially started with what they did they feel they have done the legally what's necessary to start the clock and then I think 14 days then the state's going to follow up and then see where it goes from there so but that that's plot thck progress but that that's progress so he's officially been served admin and I did drive by and and I'll say that the the scrap metal is Ono there's more of it it's pushed up against the railing uh so it's there's been no modification with what's going on that I can see personally and then uh then I'd also ask are statement on the uh pesticide um issue the uh the article SES was there any feedback from the select board we answered we we gave a recommendation to the select board to not put it on the warrant was there any feedback from the select board to us about what they did or not do it no I have not heard anything I can check into that though all right and then can you give us a follow up on the short-term regulation the new hire and then there's a problem and there's still a problem doing with getting has not started yet um there was some issues um personal issues so um health issues and personal so um I don't know when she's going to start um but it's anticipated that she will be starting it is anticipated I'm still waiting to hear um we are getting lots of reg lots of registrations in I any guests toid as to how many I would say maybe 500 or so I can look him up but okay I'll do that um all right we've gotten a lot yeah so I com that we already have short-term rentals renters in the house next door to us for this year March 15th they AR yeah and last year they were there until January 2nd I think March 1st was the Wason has started season so I think I sort of recognized that this would this thing would be rolling in it would take a while to get up to date more than a year so we'll just push as hard as we can to get things started this year wait for the new employee to come they can review everything and we'll move ahead 462 so far so that's about a maybe a third of what we have yeah it's a start I think it's a good start um do 462 so all right okay we're keeping up on them we're all right any other um old business business new business any any uh anybody from the public to make a statement or comment or no for the Board of Health all right I wanted to um ask if maybe the water department could come and give us an update on the wells I was actually thinking that it's probably time um after reading those articles so we'll I'll get in touch with Rob failey and ask him to come and update the board of on that I I think that's a good idea um you know it'll probably have to be in May at this point uh you mean with the p files and the ones working not working are they're going to put in new wells all that sort of and and also where we stand for the summer Bob Dunson used to do it but that's now moved on to D yeah uh DPW DP yeah DPW Rob phy is the the director so I definitely will ask him to come to one of our board meetings we'll look at we'll look at the calendar and to talk to him about it okay and then um all right we can uh approve the minutes of uh March 4th does anybody have a question or comment about that was a kind of a brief meeting very succinct all right somebody like to make a motion to approve move move to approve in a second a second maybe we can take a Voice vote uh approval of the minutes of March 4th all in favor say I I I okay and then um if there's nothing else we can go ahead and get a motion to to adjourn the meeting I'll move to adjourn second okay and we'll take a Voice vote all in favor say I I okay the meeting the meeting huh oh Ron okay the meeting is adjourned I want to [Music] thank [Music] pap