##VIDEO ID:ImlnriaERLw## 9th 2024 meeting which I'm calling to order with the announcement under Mass General Law chapter 3A section 20f this meeting is being recorded and please join me in I pledge aliance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands one nation under God indivisible with liberty and justice for all okay uh we're going to open up the meeting with a presentation by our public health nurse Linda Pierce you have the floor good afternoon today's subject is healthy aging healthy aging is a process that involves maintaining and improving physical and mental health Independence and quality of life throughout life it defines healthy aging as an ability to develop and maintain functional ability which includes meeting basic needs learning growing and making decisions being mobile building and maintaining relationships and contributing to society good physical activity as you age lowers your risk for heart disease stroke type two diabetes and some types of cancer physical activity can help you maintain a healthy weight and avoid chronic health problems you may try activities like gardening biking or walking keep moving it improves your balance and strength so that you can stay independent it also improves your mood anxiety or depression and the ability to make decisions choose healthy foods rich in nutrients get enough sleep sleep is as important as nutrients and exercise Stress Management try some yoga or keep a journal mental activity keep your mind active by learning new skills reading playing games social engagements stay connected with friends and family you may want to volunteer continue to work in the work force or serving as a caregiver manage your health care proactively get regular checkups and understand all your medications even making small changes in your daily life can help you live longer and better seniors should eat plenty of fruits and vegetables to obtain their daily vitamin C examples are oranges broccoli Tomatoes bell peppers tangerines grapefruit and strawberries bananas bananas for energy spinach for iron unless you're on an anti-coagulant blueberries a brain food that may reduce related disease such as Alzheimer's disease fish Omega fatty acids to prevent inflammation if you smoke quit if you drink cut down two for a male one for a female only you can make to choose this change and we still have Triple E and West Nile please use insect PL with Jeep mosquitoes are out at Dusk and Dawn empty any standing water in you got and they are still around at 55° and above check for tis when working outside chicks are uh very tiny and you have to really take you know you're working Outdoors you're doing some gardening please take your clothes off take a shower and make sure you somebody at least checks where you can't check our next blood drive is on um the 19th of September at whites from 2: to 7:00 p.m. please go online with the American R Red Cross to register flu vaccines starting 9:16 in my office and I will be doing some clinics so please if you want to have a flu shop call for an appointment at 508 63613 if I'm not in the office please leave me a message and I will get back to you as soon as possible and we have free covid tests outside of the nurse's office so please feel free to help yourself and if anybody has any questions I'll just testify that volunteering on the board has done wonders for my health because you know you have your hair you have your humor and I see that you walked in here okay without a can yeah I think it's really important to stress how important socialization is um a lot of the studies are looking at that um that those at isolate are more apt to develop dementia and that there are certain things that you can do to actually prevent dementia they're looking at all the um the data now that's suggesting that dementia may be preventable so um so I'm glad that you addressed that today thank you okay guys have a nice thank you very much out and enjoy the good weather too okay uh any questions on Nat's written report uh none Madam chair no okay um any updates Matt so we'll skip over one L to covered the blood drive um the part-time Animal control officer position was posted on August 13th to date we have not received any resumes or inquiries for the position um the transfer station has hired a temporary worker that had a class B license and for the moment that solves the need to use contractors to holler containers but going through a temp agency still um or staffing agency still puts a strain on the budget however today our person that was out came back so the temporary work is no longer working for us so now we got our regular driver back so um we'll see how how things progress throughout the year with with the transfer station um lot three at the transfer station is now operational uh the scouts and bike recycling have 100% moved in and by the pictures you can see in my report it looks pretty good um and hopefully that it all goes well down there Matt can I ask a question yes people who don't have a transfer station sticker but have a bicycle that they would want to drop off or even the recycling for the Boy Scouts do they get entrance without a pass they they need a pass there's a once a year the Earth Day weekend we allow people without a pass to recycle bites so it's a once a year event okay um okay and L to cover the the full clinic and the food vaccine um stuff so um I I'll just add because I was just at the doctors myself um they're really seeing a lot of um uptick in covid cases my dad is in a nursing home they have an outbreak there so just encouraging people to um think about getting a updated Co covid vaccine a booster um they are available at local phes well yes and no I mean they're running out quick they given you going through 100 doses in less than a day and then they go to reorder um cuz I was going to order some for here um some places out in the general vicinity and um I can't even get them they said there might be some available for us to order in the next 2 to 3 weeks so flu or co co co okay uh so yeah they having u a hard time keeping up with the demand okay U but um we're looking into just getting a small supply for Linda to um to do vaccinations I think we're going to put an order in we just have to wait till they shut we can get them it might not be for a couple weeks okay Matt we again try to to um a clinic if we can get the doses we'd have to get quite a few doses um and they're very expensive so um so a box of uh 10 pre-filled uh syringes is $1,500 so it's quite they're quite expensive to um yeah okay okay thank you all right okay um then we'll move on to director ofof plans yes just have one for B Hill so we have a uh three bedroom repair utilizing a quick four on four Holly Hill he'll have for um an A meowski and an um an r and TAA and um this has been through concom it's not replacing a Cess pool and it will require a three bedroomroom deed restriction I have no questions about it me nether okay so I move that we um endorse the director approved plan four Holly Hill a with a a condition of a three-bedroom deed restriction second all in favor I I okay thank you okay uh moving on to minutes we have the August 19th 2024 minutes okay there I have some a change that needs to be made on those minutes I believe that Phil was not present in that meeting was it the 19th no he was you were here wa wait a minute there was one that he was not um in I think this one yes I was because I made the comment on 29 Cornell R I'm sorry I'm sorry a later one never mind then it was the 22nd that you were not right okay so other than that I have no there are no issues okay so I'll move to approve the minutes of August 19th 2024 and I second motion made and seconded to approve the August 19th minutes all in favor I that's unanimous thank you okay moving on to other business we have um uh two um I think the same owners um request uh for review of Title 5 inspections for 192nd Street and 232 street so I'm going to turn first to Matt and um you're welcome to come up to the table if you'd like you're or you can stay there it's fine you can stay there it's fine okay so the title five inspections were turned in from the inspector with needs F further evaluation by the local approving Authority checked off reason for that is the Wells were less than 100 ft away from the proper at 19 um Second Street and 232 Street and the nitrate levels were above five on both uh 19 Second Street at 5.3 and 27 Second Street at 7.5 which requires review by the Board of Health um when the nitrates are above five the septic system at um 192 Street looks like it was put in in 2016 and the system at 23 Second Street looks like it was put in 2007 um so I you know that neighborhood is congested with a lot of people kind the properties are kind of right on top of one another for the most part and um so you don't know really where the nitrates are coming from especially with the systems at 19 and 23 being fairly newer m okay uh thoughts questions from the board are we um doing them as a group or let's do one at a time yeah um so I think that because the U nitrate level at 19 is uh you know just above uh the threshold and as Matt said it's um I mean there you know it's it's hard to um separate out the site impact from the neighbor impact just I tried to look at the topographic map and I think generally you know uh groundwood is Flowing down towards the marsh that borders the Le which is just down the street so it's kind of um you know kind of moving parallel with the addresses in in a a certain way um so I don't have a problem um concluding that that system hasn't failed and particularly because it's a 2016 system it's uh you know it's fully compliant um I do have other issues with 23 that are worth talking about okay well let's finish talking about 19 I had a question on 19 is that um the note said the um inspection said that there was a four-bedroom design but it's only a two-bedroom house so is there um so that's less it's less usage so it's low level of usage they said low water usage but did say that was not seasonal so is there [Music] any impact from that not that that would that would the nitrate level because it's not it might be a four-bedroom system but it's only being used as a two-bedroom home is there only two bedrooms in the home two so there's you know theoretically less nitrates going into the system um so I don't think it has any adverse impact by being designed that way yeah is that is it occupied year round it is okay with just one person for the last Okay 201 okay or just one person living there okay yeah well that could explain it okay done questions nope okay um so I'm sensing you ready for a motion yeah so I would um move to find that the uh system at uh 192 street is is not in failure and is in compliant with Title 5 I second motion made and seconded to um pass the Title Five inspection for 192 Street in favor I I that's unanimous thank you okay moving on to 23 Second Street um so um the most striking thing that I um found out right before I came over is when cuz I was trying to figure out as to why a house right next door where one was measuring five and the other was measuring 7.5 and um I mean the threshold is 10 in terms of exceeding it's no longer portable water you can't you you're you know it presents a health threat to drink it but um and then when I looked at the assessor card the assessors card has this listed as a four-bedroom house I know but I'm just saying this is what the Assessor's card has has listed as a 4bedroom house but the system um is design flow is for three bedrooms and I mean Matt can speak to this better than I can but I think our general principle is to defer to the Assessor's card uh unless and pending we we would do an inspection and determine we know what the what that what the number of bedroom count was as bedroom is defined in Title 5 because Title 5 the way that um flow is measured is based on bedrooms it's B because it's a certain number of gallons per day that is assigned to each bedroom which is 10,000 gallons per day um in terms of how you would design a system that if you were designing a new system that's where you would go and you would have enough land to accommodate that so I think that's kind of the first that's one issue I had and then just to say the and I know 19 is for sale I don't know if uh 23 is for sale too yeah it was we took it off the market okay all right so um and and is it and is I'm sorry is it occupied now or is it just the two of us it's never more than the two it's been seasonal this is this is your seasonal Place yeah right okay and never had more we don't have children right right right right and right so then can can I make one other comment though that the property next store has access right right and you mean so behind yeah so these properties join each other they next to each other right from what I understand the three properties towards Horseneck all have unknown or outdated systems so to the point that was made earlier that it's all kind of flowing but then the property immediately on our right has a so you know so that you're talking about 27 second that would be 27 yeah well I mean this is this is always a complicated um discussion to have because to actually figure out where the groundwater is flowing and how it intersects you know whatever your um you know assess pool or any subsurface system requires a an expensive study which no one really wants to do and so you kind of have to this rough substitute for that is looking at how the the Topography of the surface you know uh you know where's it going from high to low and in what direction is that going it looked to me that uh um a property that between that was between your house and the Le would be the the groundwater would be flowing towards the Le it wouldn't be flowing up to your house that's what I'm saying so um and it uh and the fact that um it was just the two of you being there seasonally and the timing I thought I in my mind I was thinking okay well this well just got tested kind of at the end of the season and when I I didn't know how many people were living there at the time but thinking that maybe one of the reasons between the five and the 7.5 is that the system was getting a lot more use because it was a bigger system so um anyway that's my observations but it would seem like we would need to resolve the number of bedroom issu preliminary to um to the inspection report that is supposed to record the actual number of bedrooms it does as three oh okay all right well um okay so I don't know if that's is that a reliable maybe is or does he use that's on page seven okay design he says the design is for three bedrooms the actual is three it it was designed for three B okay I mean you can read that from the plan yeah and that's where you're saying the assesses card says four card says four four but the plan and says three there's design for three and the inspector were you home when he did the inspection yes did he go into the house he didn't okay okay so he can't bear so yeah yeah yeah yeah I'm not yeah so I don't know why he thought it was for but but I'm just bringing it to people's attention because I thought in the abstract not knowing that it was just the two of you who've been using it seasonally that maybe that was the reason why the or contributed to the fact that the flow was or that the nitrate level was high because I mean is this well is closer to the septic system than the one on 19 yeah yeah so that's another yeah and again yeah and I think that's the complication of and and it it well the the plan here doesn't say that the what the ground waterer height is but the plan on 19 says it's just a little over 11 and and they have a mounded seting system it says a shallow groundwater found at a depth of three fre oh okay on page 17 of 18 3 ft yeah yeah yeah so that again is a contributing yeah which is what I thought when I saw the mounted I happened to be a bike riding before I came to the meeting so I rode up the street so um uh yeah because I details but I loop around that's a very familiar Loop for me to go yeah up drift and around hene and down horse so as Phil mentioned the the threshold for um drinking water safety is 10 you're at 7.5 on this property so you're getting you're above the sort of threshold of concern of five you're not at 10 yet so we're not mandated to do something I I would um it depends on you know what your plans are maybe um you might I don't know if that's something the board wants to consider um recommending or requiring um treatment on the well um um I would um I'm not sure that it's it uh I think what we've said but in the past the assessor records are not 100% to be relied on um so I'm not sure that I and maybe you can tell just from the your your cycle by does it look like it could be a four-bedroom I mean I'm fine with if you're telling us it's three I'm fine with ex that's fine that's fine um so um the question is what uh what are we going to recommend and well I would I would certainly recommend the um filtration system on the well if it was me and I had that kind of number come back I'd be concerned so I would put it on my own well um but yeah I and then with a close proximity we don't know what's going on with the other properties cuz I said to Matt do we know what's going on in 27th 2 Street like what there if we had Waters results from them because they're so close as well um to see if this is something that's inherent in that particular square footage so but um I would be concerned with a 7.5 I would I would put a filtration system on my own I didn't know what the like um whenever somebody replaces a system at least under the current board and they and the and the replacement system doesn't meet the required setbacks we ask for a groundwater test so or a well test but we but we don't really have well data to know like what oh for a Butters mean yeah for a buts like when the system was replaced we don't have historical we don't have anything historically to compare 7.5 to uh uh you know what it was um when there was probably a Cess pool on the side and you know Etc um well I did think that there was a recommendation and maybe of which the inspector made which is to have the septic tank pump annually um and I don't know if you do that had a yeah that's I think I thought he I think he recommended it in both but I could be I remember seeing it at least on one but I don't remember was on this one uh maybe as I went back and forth between the [Applause] um but the alternative could be that you have the yeah this he recommends every 12 months on this one as well yeah so I mean we could approve it conditionally um and and request some additional well test going on okay as an alternative as opposed to a um I mean well I I think I think suggesting putting treatment on well is but I'm not I so I think we're all in consensus we recommend treatment on the well doesn't sound like we're going to require it so that's up to you um um are we are you ready to make a motion like are you well would I would definitely um just talking I definitely move to have the system you know pumped uh annually and um uh and you know maybe to do that but can I yeah then our neighbor should be doing it too yeah well our neighbor should have to right right and I should have right yeah and I should have made that I should have made that point that we should have Incorporated it's understood but you are coming before us with a request to approve it an inspection we don't have that in front of so we we're not in a um you know that's just the luck of the draw basically um if if your neighbor comes in with a request for Title 5 inspection approval in under similar circumstances you know we would we could impose conditions or whatever but we're not in a position um to routinely just on well because you're because your neighbor no no it's what I'm trying to say is is that we can have a pumped every year we can have a pumped every six months and it doesn't mean it's going to fix problem these lots are 7500 Square ft they're they're very small and so you know it can't be coming from anywhere to the point that was made earlier and right but this but on your immediate property with your well 61 ft away annual pumping will help reduce the pressure of contamination on the well on your property you're right there's a bigger issue in that area and I know that in years past there were some attempt to do a sort of a community system or something something like that but um right now everybody's sort of on their own either but you know I haven't heard from you know Buzzard's Bay Coalition and the West W Alliance recently on that but I thought they were still trying to oh they are I don't know I think they didn't get funding and kind of died on the Bine oh yeah but I I I don't know personally so um uh okay well um appreciate I mean do you think that for 23 that um as a condition of passing it that we should requir annual pumping I think that's I mean that's recommended as well from the title five inspector yes I would I would do that okay was that was that in this um yes on page two okay the motion is still on the floor uh we don't have a motion on the floor yet yeah I thought he moot did he move to oh yeah well the system annually okay to approve conditioned upon right so approve the yeah to to um to find that the system is not fa is not in Failure condition upon um the stetic tank being pumped uh you know once every 12 months and with a recommendation for recommendation for filtration system on the well um I don't think we need to put that motion all right that's not part of my motion but you can amend the motion um no that's okay I mean I I I we've made the recommendation um I'm I'm I get concerned about People's Health when they're drinking water when the contamination is getting higher and if it increases um it could have detrimental effects on your health so um so anyway so I then second the um motion on the condition that the to approve the uh Title 5 inspection and the system with the pump system that the system will be pumped annually annually okay thank you motion has been made and seconded to approve the um tile 5 inspection for 232nd Street with a condition of annual septic pumping all in favor I that's inous thank you very much how we get copies of the you will get a letter that that will come from the office you say you have a closing soon 2 for for 19 yeah okay um can we get whatever you just needed before the 27ths like it 27th yeah I'll um ask Nancy to um get the letter out and yeah so all we do is on the Title Five inspection we'll we'll mark it past and put the date that's all there's nothing like that fancy and you'll get a copy of that okay could could we come to see maybe next couple of days in person just pick it up as opposed to having you mail it yeah you can come Thursday okay Thursday yeah I just had one comment that's okay um the pumping annual pumping can you um send over a um do you guys have a regular pumper who pumps the system it's yes it's I GRE out of T just a blank right now they just at 19 pum acne okay yeah they're good so we'll get the reports from them okay they they send us their reports routinely so okay you all said thank you thanks okay uh we have until 4:40 before our first appointment so um we have some time to talk about the home bual guidelines um I'm hoping that this will we're at the home stretch here so to speak um I will just uh preface this this by saying um I have dug deep on this issue yeah seem you have um and had further discussions with the dph community sanitation Attorney General's office um looked at other some other towns um got good guidance from Jonathan hobble um and he sent me some um model from uh Western Mass so I have a lot of resources I looked at um the key thing I just wanted to share with you is in discussions with the um Division of Community sanitation when I was digging deeper around some of the um sort of uh um Provisions under statute that aren't directly Board of Health responsibility but you know wanting to give accurate guidance um it is under uh Le review between um dph D and the mass health Officers Association particularly around whether um a local board Town board has to approve at the in this case a select board um and the cemetery Corporation requirement um which to me seems owners for just a family plot um but that's that's my personal opinion um um so so at this point I'm still recommending that we go through the permission process with the select board because it's not clear as she said um the analyst from Community sanitation you'll she said you'll notice on the State website D says nothing about any of these this it's only on our website um and therefore you know that's part of the inconsistency they're trying to figure out what how they want to go forward um I I've received um input from uh others in the green burial field um who you know think that having that level I mean following local um zoning and and making sure resources are protected fine but when do you have to go to the select board to have permission to do anything else on your property you know so um uh so that's so I left that a little bit sort of vague um around the cemetery Corporation requirement I think my recommendation is we just are silent on that because that's not something we would would or could enforce and um that's something um I'm sure um the homeowner you know can figure out how they want to proceed on that um but it doesn't have to be as part of our approval process um so that's that's kind of where I came down I Jonathan also said you know for at least I don't think that's official D policy but he his perspective was or at least he said sort of yeah we would recommend green burial as well for following green burial principles for home burial um so um we recommend but not requireed as as we talked about before um otherwise um just reorganized a little bit recommended that that there' be an in initial consultation with the Board of Health when a family is um starting to pursue this um just to kind of walk through the process um and I just reorganized it based on some of the other Town um guidance most of the home burials it's obviously pretty common in western Mass because a lot of towns out there have hybrid cemeteries and they also have guidance around home burial so um it's not so prevalent here um the only home burials that Southeastern Mass he's approved are on hisb on mother's vineard um so it's not a common thing um although I found out um actually there was a home burial in t maybe 10 years ago um so um that's kind of where things stand um one of the recommendations as part of my review of other towns was to just have a permit form just to get all the information in one piece of paper um some other towns do charge a fee but I think we'd have to establish a regulation in order to charge a fee if I'm correct and I don't want to go down that road is part of the charging a fee though wouldn't we have to go and inspect the area to make sure it meets the requirements well we may have to go out and do a park test we may have to go out and do soil layers if there's nothing on well just because there's some guidelines that specifically say so many feet from you know different areas that they would have that they would have to they'll get submit a plan from an engineer who will say you know 50 ft or ft whatever so um and if they have to do a perk test they have to pay for a per test yeah they have to pay for that separately anyways but um yeah it all depends if if the board wants like we stake out pools um you know or we stake out Wells we go out they stake them out we go measure them to verify so if the board wanted that we would do that so someone would stake out the plot we would go verify and you know take the measurements to make sure they're accurate um I don't think it's going to be a common practice in town since we've never had one before um so that that's up to you I did not include that in as a requirement that the Board of Health um Can can I just raise a um uh a definitions question which kind of came up in the uh when uh I was working on the definition section of the well RS which is what the definition of a structure is and uh because it says a distance to a structure and by way of example like is a fence or a wall a structure or does it really mean a building okay yeah I just copied this form from another I change that to building cuz I don't think we want to get into yeah and um and there were I can't remember whether it was D had one definition in a town that had some fairly comprehensive well RS had another definition of it you know that um and it kind of got under you know it got into things like well was an underground tanku you know it was anyway so just I think building is helpful for you know without and uh and I don't know if you what we're really trying to get to is like you know an occupied structure but it I leave it totally to you what I I think uh that's just more sort of for reference I don't think that from a scientific perspective that uh yeah the impact of a burial close to a structures right right right I mean I guess yeah I guess you know it would it would raise um it it could just be a signal that you would ask the the next question you know well you know you know what do you is it occupied or what are you store in it or whatever people might care I don't know you know all right um so if we change structure to building I'm fine with that I just was pointing it out or maybe it's you know if that's really what we're talking about rather than I building is fine with me yeah that's fine yeah other questions or no I thought it was great yeah um so we can't charge a field um unless we have a rig and I'm not going down that yeah um okay then I would um entertain a motion to approve these home burial guidelines subject to revision of that one word on the um application form so moved second all in favor I and that thank you I will tell the person who's interested he's all set to go so this is effective right after the change of that word yes okay so effective tomorrow September 10th you should charge him a fee with all the work you did yeah really well I had a personal interest in yeah related to my other project so um and he has expressed a lot of he said I actually in his I emailed him to let him know we hope to finalize them he said I hope the board appreciates all the work I said so oh we do we do no I I I'm not I'm confident of that um but anyways he's he's um sensitive to that too which is great uh okay is Mr Potter coming yes I did talk to him he said he'd be here okay well we'll just wait um then I can text oh um well we should I should not do that I should check do we have any other topics for the next regular meeting topics not reasonbly anticipated board member updates oh board member updates thank you very much sorry uh my left well um so in the uh in where we are on the well regulations uh so I took um you know Matt's draft and then I worked on it some more and uh created um a draft that addressed what Matt had um drafted and then filled in some additional topics that were um where Matt had focused on the permit process and then I looked at um some of the other um you know conditions that we might want to oppose going um you know going forward um and so we still haven't had a chance because of both of our schedules to really talk about that I also reached out to George Campbell um to talk about one of the issues which had to do which which had to do with the um not the not the water quality but the water quantity and there are a number of towns and DP who um have formulas by which to um require the yield of the well to meet what the formulas say is the demand so if you you know there's a four bedroom house being built that the Board of Health would be looking to say well is that yield going to meet the demands of that house and and or and some um and this is you know more at the 10,000 foot policy thing it's and then then there are other um by way of example other towns who just say um you know the the well must meet the required demand doesn't really say how how to measure that how to measure that and you know um and and so that might be something that um once we m and I talk and I think we've talked about you know like talking to a well driller who was really hired by the developer who knows how many you know just say well is this like is there like a standard protocol that you would use because it's not like we don't really require pump tests in our regulations at all um and you know we we just have an after the fact water quality test to me meet you know standard contaminants and everything so um and so it's a work in progress um we're trying to get you know get some more input on it and then maybe we'll meet this week to talk about it because then the following week I'll be with right and then anyway it's mostly my schedule but then when we came back from the holiday um I was trying to get Matt before the holiday hit but he didn't have to time I'm actually curious to find out what happened when you went on the dog on the habitability inspection which interest I can I'll F you interrup we had a meeting schedule and then there was like an emergency because Nick wasn't around he had to go to a house that looked like it might need to have an immediate condemnation order okay so that's you know okay well um thank you for continuing to plug away on it um and then you know when you get back um maybe at our next meeting we can figure out another working meetings in order it sounds like you and he need to still do a lot of technical job owning yeah and right and you know exactly and you know it would be good to get feedback from the board just in ter so we when we narrow down the options of what we want to you know what we want to do okay so we can schedule a working meeting in October okay um uh before we continue on Mr Potter has arrived so we'll move to our 4:40 p.m. uh hearing for 220c Fisherville Lane pmid this is a four-bedroom repair with an infiltrated Qui for and singular 960 DN sorry I'm late I got tied up locate in the wall oh speaking of glad you didn't fall in I lost myself I having fun okay I just I just need to copy the plan I didn't get back in my office I so okay this one's uh pretty simple yeah Len po West Environmental design for Paul Schmid 220c fish wi we have an existing four bedroomroom house we have an existing thousand gon tank the river if you got the plan facing correctly the rivers to your left which is East then this 1,000g tank on the west side of the house and that dumps into a leech pit that's clearly seen visible from from grade as a cover which is very close to the coastal pank and and the river so Paul bought the house he wants to get get things squared away so I went down and did the pr des and I went into the far Corner far away as I can get from the river in the well I ended up with a quick FL system 90 ft from the top of Coastal Bank and the system is partially in the in the flood zone the uh see flood zone is uh got here somewhere it's a vzone on the river side and it's an azone on the other side and that ends up being um the best I can do his well is a shallow well located as I've got shown and the best I can get from that area is about somewhere around 96 97 ft um so therefore I need a variance from his well it's going to be right in 96 ft and I'm 90 ft from the river at the CL this point there's also a freshwater wetlands to the South as shown fles 9 through 18 but I'm over 100 ft away from that side so I'm locked into that corner that's what I got and um the Schmid want the dite voluntarily the water tested fine but they they feel that they're more comfortable with the dite system so I installed a single air DN 960 D 600 with a pump chamber and that should be it conservation's already approved it I thought it was approved by the board so I lied and told them it was you there one of the things you said the water was okay but it was a high C form count right that it had a it had a high C form count but they went back and they shocked the while nobody's living in the house so they went back and shocked it with with um Clorox and the second test came out with zero C okay it's a shallow well a big old stoned up well okay I recommended that he drill an artisian well take a chance yeah okay okay turn to Matt for your report um I have nothing to add you know when's explanation and review was good nothing else and I I didn't the I was right the ve zone is on the rivers side of of my uh flood plane line and the AE is on the uh west side east side so it is it is in in an a Zone but that doesn't mean much the S the tank is in the vzone that is important the propose tanks in the vzone okay okay questions I have no questions actually have one question sure what was system what was the prior system here was it a leeching field no it's a leech pit was there a tank there prior the tank is located as I show it on the on the um opposite the River on the east side of the hor the one that the Thousand gon tank was there with the Le P okay and then it dumps into this Lee pit yeah okay which should both be pumped out and fill yes don't even listen to that okay so you want me to uh do you have any questions pH all right yeah cuz I can go ahead and move that we approve the plans for two 20c Fisherville Lane owned by Paul Schmidt dated 8724 for four-bedroom repair with a variance of um a distance from the SAS to the well at 96 ft with the following conditions of four bedroom deed restriction whole harmless agreement do we need anything else uh concom is not stamped on this plan right ah okay maybe because they did they get it I don't know I don't know either subject to conom because they knew you lied about us seeing we'll just send it over tomorrow yeah I I I filed an RDA and they approved it last Tuesday night maybe they just didn't get there yet but this probably did you include three years of Water Analysis oh I didn't y and of course IA compliance do we want to require the two years of total nitrogen testing if volunt so normally we say no yeah okay was I didn't cat it uh on voluntary upgrades we don't require the two years water testing no total total nitrogen testing to nitrogen testing I would say however it's recommended well yeah I would recommend it but um just looking at the um B anrt the best available nitrogen reducing technology this one doesn't make it anymore um it's advanex and park right um so just for future reference um but uh I will call a vote all in favor well actually there was no second was there no that's good okay okay I only motion made and seconded to approve the project with those conditions um uh all in favor I that's for coal Bank I'm sorry no set back for the coal Bank uh not that a variance request is that a do we have to do an Lua for coal bank I um wouldn't that be um concom concom yeah yeah it's a it's not our good I mean there's a setback from I think they Define the weapons that they care about the what will be 50 ft CL yeah right yeah okay okay this is your thank you so much thank you thank you Mr P that I don't use the single and it's a lot cheaper than the Adent tax it's almost like $8,000 cheaper now no but the results not great no they claim they can adjust it and they try to do that so yeah I'm sure they have incentive to work on that now no they are yeah there's a new fell doing the doing the work now young guy he's he's he's right on but all the effluence different so they have to adjust Tweaky yep okay thank you some use white toilet paper some use pink thank you okay um anything else uh on board member updates Phill you all no I'm on yeah just um so I wrote the letter and sent it to all of you for review um for feedback to submit to the select board and a request to um to meet um and present um review of the use of the opioid settlement funds and some recommendations um my main recommendation is that they set up a committee um to look at various ways to um to utilize the funds that meet the benefits and the needs of the community um and follow the abatement agreement so um so I've talked to um Olive she's in agreement to go with me so we're going to do it together she's done five slide presentation um and so part of my goal is to make it a p very publicly aware to increase public awareness of the fact that we have how much Matt is in the 268,000 in change I believe yeah 268,000 000 to uh focus on far so far and we get 35,000 like every year um but um the concern I have is that if we don't use it we will lose it kind of deal that we will um not continue to get our abatement um there are requirements of reporting um that I'm not sure are being done I have no idea but I just think we need to be a little bit more um open with the community about this fund do some education and also get the ball rolling and so that's what our hope is to do is get the ball rolling and uh get some input from the community so but thank you for your uh your feedback um I think Phil was shocked by the number that I I put on in the letter about the number of opioid um overdose deaths um and in our collaborative that Westport is the highest of the six communities in the collaborative we are the bias by more than half a little more than half of Overdose deaths from 2015 to 2023 so I do have one more thing to which I know will warm your heart which I I have started writing the plastic oh y newsletter and um I'm going to mental health care after I'm I'm done with it because it's such it's you know quite depressing okay great thank you um I um I am still still on my list to-do list is the total nitrogen testing policy um I've done a little bit more background research on that but I haven't written it up yet so hopefully that will come soon too um okay anything else anybody can't think of anything and so on that note no I move that we adjourn this meeting at 4:59 p.m. second all in favor I I that's unanimous thank you and just a reminder that our next regular meeting is not in two weeks but three weeks oh um on the 30th okay thank you everyone I should send the plan did I send the plan thought I made a mistake when I did that we did a j