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80 KILN BROOK DEVELOPMENT Mr. Lambie said he didn't feel that we had enough information regarding it. Mr. Smith said a lot of the areas had been recommended for sewer in the past. We.also have a lot of complaints and there are a lot of "Rube Gold- berg" repairs around the town. Dr. Cosgrove said as he understood it this bond was so that the sewer problems would not have to come before Town Meeting every year. Sewers would still be installed with the usual recommendations and on troubled streets first. Mr. Smith said that was right. Mr. Lambie asked if we would have to go over each section. Dr. Cosgrove said he didn't think so, they would still be selecting just certain areas each year. Dr. Erdos said he felt that we should recommend: (1) Correcting ex- isting difficulties to eliminate health and safety problems. (2) Provide relief for existing and potential health hazards in non-sewered areas. and (3) Provide some cost relief to the town because it is clear that it will be more costly to complete this problem as time goes by. Mr. Smith said we could make recommendations of the most troubled areas but these have not been followed in the past. Dr. Erdos said if we supported the sewer project we should be more specific about the time people had to connect to the sewer instead of our present policy of a "reasonable" time. Mr. Lambie said he would be in favor of placing a time limit on con- necting. Mr. Smith said the Board could come out and require a hook-up to sewer as soon as it was available. He said the Board of Health was the authority on that and they could be more firm than they are right now. After further discussion it was agreed that the Board would vote for 100% municipal sewer where possible. Also it was agreed to look into a 6 months to one year time limit for connecting houses to the sewer. The Board signed the letter to the Selectmen relative to their concern of the surcharge of sewers and the backflow of sewage into homes in Lex- ington. The Board, in this letter, requested a workable contingency plan to eliminate the present health hazard. The Board also asked to meet with the Selectmen or to hear from them within the next 40 days to learn what remidial action was proposed. Mr. Smith reported that he had an appointment that morning with Mr. David Gompers, developer of Kiln Brook Office Park, and his engineers to inspect a site on Hartwell Ave. relative to determining the suitability of the site to construct an onsite subsurface sewage disposal system. 1 1 1