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465 BOARD OF HEALTH MEETING FEBRUARY 17, 1961 The regular meeting of the Board of Health was held Friday, February 17, 1961 at 3:00 P.M. in the Selectmen's Room of the Town Office Building. Members present were Dr. William Cosgrove, Mr. Charles Cole and Health Officer, Mark D. Lurvey. The minutes of the January meeting were accepted with a few minor corrections and the Clerk was instructed to note these changes before the minutes were incooperated in the permanent record book. Mr. Frank Heaney, of Fay, Spofford and Thorndike, Inc. and LAND FILL 1 John Carroll, Superintendent of Public Wroks, attended this meeting PROGRAM to discuss the ten possible sites that could be used for a Sanitary SURVEY; Land Fill Program in Lexington. & SITE The company Mr. Heaney represents have been authorized by the Selectmen to conduct a study of refuse collection and disposal on a Land Fill Program for the Town of Lexington. Mr. Heaney requested to meet with the Board of Health to explain the Land Fill Program and to discuss the possible selection of sites made by him from the public health standpoint. Mr. Heaney explained that a Sanitary Land Fill Program properly run must be rigidly controlled. It is advisable that an area of about 10 feet be filled in at a time. This is covered with sand constantly during the filling procedure and is then covered with two feet of sand on the top. It was stressed by Mr. Heaney that a pourous material must be used for covering any of the refuse dumped in a Sanitary Land Fill program. The reasons for using sand is because sand is pourous and acts as a leaching material for drainage and secondly it is pour- ous enough to dissipate any gases in the winter weather. Mr. Heaney impressed on the Board that a cover material such as peat, clay or loam is not satisfactory. A properly run Sanitary Land Fill. Program will use about 50 yards of sand a day, this sand is stored in stock piles. Weekly collection of material has proved to be the most satisfactory in running a Land Fill Program. Whether this collection is run by the town or by private disposal companies is a matter for the Towns people to decide. A Town operated rubbish collection service would. cost about $20,000.00 or better. If a town collection is not advisable at the present time a transfer station can be considered for people who take their own rubbish to the dump now. Mr. Cole asked how soon a Land Fill Program could be built upon. Mr. Heaney said for industrial areas this land can be used right away. as the land used for the Land Fill Program is usually used as the parking area and as the acess roads are permanent roads to start with the Land Fill Area makes an ideal location for industrial sites. Mr. Heaney explained that Lexington still had sufficient land for a Land Fill Program and that in his survey he felt that a Land Fill Program would be best for Lexington.