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1 system. That day there was also sewage coming out of the storm drains. Dr. Erdos said that talking with the people in the Brookside and Saddle Club Road area they had nothing but the highest commendation for the Health Officer and the crews of men working in the area during that crisis. The people in the area felt that the problem had been handled very well. Mr. Smith said he felt that Public Works was not as well organized to handle the situation as they should have been. He said the pumps used that day should have been on hand for the emergency. He went on to say he felt the sewer problem could be handled better than it was being handled. He felt that building a dike and chlorinating the effluent and then draining into Klyne Brook was bad. Mr. Lambie said he thought a better plan could be made and this plan should be included in the contingency plan that we have requested. Mr. Smith said he felt that we were no better off than we were before. Mr. Lambie said maybe we should write a sterner letter and give them a time limit to submit to us a contingency plan. Mr. Smith said there had been some thought of dropping the sewer moratorium. He felt the Board should not agree to that until we had a good contingency plan. The Board discussed the completion plan for the numicipal sewer and they wondered about the adviseability of recommending completion of the sewer program when the sewer moratorium is on. Mr. Lambie said he felt that another letter regarding the sewage problem should be put together and a date placed on when this contingency plan should be submitted. He said he did not feel that the first of April would be unreasonable. Dr. Erdos said he felt an open letter to the Minute Man was in order of this problem. Mr. Smith said that he had sent a memo to the Board of Selectmen, Mr. McSweeney and Donald Irwin regarding the illegal sewer connections. He said the laws of Chapter 83 of the General Laws state that either the Selectmen or the Public Works Department have charge of enforcing this law. The floor drains which were found to be illegal would be up to Donald Irwin to make the builder or homeowner break. Mr. Smith reported to the Board that Town Manager had requested him to look into charging a fee for the Rabies innoculation. He said he RABIES would be against it because the licensing fees had been raised a dollar INNOCULATIONS this year to cover this clinic. Also, he preferred not to charge for this innoculation and change our policy because it was good from the public health stand point. The free clinic also was a good way to get the dogs licensed which did cut down on our delinquent list. The Board agreed they did not want to change policy and they voted to recommend that no fee be charged for the innoculation of Rabies in licensed dogs.