Lincoln Board of Health
Meeting Minutes
September 4, 2002
PRESENT: Frederick Mansfield, M.D., Chairman
Arnold Weinberg, M.D.
Diane Haessler, R.N.
Michael Moore, Agent
Elaine Carroll, Secretary
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Previous Minutes The minutes from the July 17, 2002 meeting were approved as written. The members went over the calendar of future meetings and set the schedule through 2002.
Septic System Reviews:
38 Longmeadow Road This is a replacement system for an existing home. The high elevation of ground water is 8 feet below the surface, and the leaching facility must be 5 feet above ground water because of the 2 minute-per-inch percolation rate. If the following local variances are granted, then a gravity system can be constructed without a leaching mound or pump chamber. The petitioner is asking the Board to grant two variances from its local regulation:
1) To construct a leaching facility with 6 inches of base aggregate below the distribution pipes, instead
of 12 inches as required by local amendment to 310 CMR 15.247(3).
2) To construct a leaching bed or field, which is prohibited by local amendment to 310 CMR 15.252(1).
After a brief discussion with Bill Murphy, R.S., the designer of the system, a motion was made to grant the local variances as requested. The motion passed 3-0.
Lot 90-10, Winter Street This is a new system for a new house to be constructed on a vacant lot that has a large quantity of ledge. Even though the site contains the mandatory 4 feet of naturally occurring permeable soil, it will require additional fill to construct a system on this property. A plan has been revised several times, and has a leaching mound that is 7 feet high in one place. However, the design engineer would like to use a different method to determine the high ground water elevation. The petitioner is asking the Board to modify or withdraw a letter written by staff on 8/15/02 and to waive their policy of standard Frimpter adjustment for this site due to unique site conditions and therefore using less fill material. After a discussion with the builder, Ken Eisner,
and the septic designer, Dave Crispin, the Board voted 3-0 to sustain the letter written by staff and requests the owner to install a system with the fill material. Mike Moore will review the plans with Stan Sosnicki again to be sure that all the number are right and get back to the Board.
Subdivision:
Hobbs Brook Farm The Board reviewed an 11-lot subdivision plan for this property back in February, and approved a memo to the Planning Board on 2/6/02. Christina Reiling Breiter, Hobbs Brook Farm, and David Giangrande, Design Consultants, Inc., came in to show the Board the new subdivision plan for Hobbs Brook Farm. It was stated that before the houses were much closer to the wetlands then in the revised plan. Public water would be brought to the site and no private drinking wells. There is less roadway and more open space to preserve fields and hydrants are on site. They wanted site to be entirely contained. There will be a pond to handle 100-year floods and will look attractive with landscaped area and stone-lined edge, which should prevent the roadway from flooding as
happens now. The pond is a work in progress and they will need some sort of circulation to prevent the growth of mosquitoes. They want to be sure that it is an asset and not a liability and depth of pond will be according to ground water regulations. Mike Moore asked them to re-submit the revised plan with soil logs and Mike will do perk tests and write a staff letter to be signed by the Board, which will then be given to the Planning Board.
Other Business:
Bills Paid 2 bills were paid: 1 bill to Town of Lexington - $582.09 for July hazardous waste collection and Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Mosquito Control (1st payment) for $2,500.00.
West Nile Virus Dr. Weinberg will write a notice for publishing in the Lincoln Journal regarding ways to avoid West Nile virus.
Mike Moore stated that he and Tim Higgins were working on a new agreement between Lincoln and Concord to continue to use their Board of Health services and he was proposing to add a section for weights and measures and also an anti-terrorist section.
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There being no further business the meeting was adjourned at 9:30 p.m. The next meeting will be held on Oct. 2, 2002.
Respectfully submitted,
Elaine M. Carroll
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