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-5 - start work for the Town of Lexington the first week in August. The letter to Mr. Richard Albanese stating that a new Director of Public Health had been appointed and thanking him for his services during the illness of Mr. Finneran was approved and placed on file. The Clerk reported that as yet nothing had been done by Mr. & Mrs. Johnson, 69 Spring Street, to connect their home to public sewer as ordered by the Board at the May 1, 1967 Meeting. On June 27th, 1967, a copy of a letter written and sent registered mail on June 5, 1967 was delivered to Mrs. Johnson by Sgt. Lloyd Faulkingham. Public Works has sent a man out and estimated that the Town work for connection to public sewer will he around $200. The drainlayers fee will be over that, bringing this connection up to approximately $900. Mr. McQuillan explained to Mr. Heustis that the Board of Health has rules that on a complaint like this and where public sewer is available the owners must connect to public sewer to abate the nuisance. Mr. Heustis said he would check this out on Saturday and see if anything is being done, and then he could get a better understanding of the situation.. The letters to Dr. Frechette regarding bhe Metropolitan District Commission sewer line at the Arlington, Lexington line was approved by the Board. Mr. McQuillan explained that the first letter he sent to Dr. Frechette, Commissioner of Public Health on June 6, 1967 calling his attention to the raw sewage coming from the M.D.C. line was not answered. On June 22 another letter was sent and a phone call made. Mr. McQuillan said he was then referred to a Mr. John Collins of the State Sanitary Engineering Department. and talked to his secretary. Today he wrote another letter tc 7r. Frechette ree:arding this problem because he felt tint someone should have replied to these letters. The Board agreed. 143 MR. ALBANESE 69 SPRING ST. M.D.C. SEWER ARL.- LEX. The letter to Allan Greene, lawyer for ?Jr. Rocco 987 WALTHAM Frasca, 987 Waltham Street was approved. Mr. I,`-cQuillan STREET explained that Mr. Greene had sent a letter to the Department stating that the dumping of Salt -Water Peat at the Elks Lodge was a health violation. Mr. Albanese had stopped the dumping when the first complaint had been received. Mr. DeMattio is also dumping construction material from Route 2 on this lot and we do not have any jurisdiction over that type of material and as far as we can see there is no health violation at this time.