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454 BOARD OF HEALTH MEETING OCTOBER 2, 1972 The regular meeting of the Board of Health was held Monday, Oct- ober 2, 1972 at 7:00 P.M. in the conference room G-5 of the Town Office Building. Members present were: Dr. William Cosgrove, Chairman. Mr. James Lambie, Dr. Charles Ellicott and Director of Public Health, Robert C. Heustis. Minutes of the September 11, 1972 meeting were approved by the Board as read. Mr. Williams of the Conservation Committee came before the CLARKE JR. Board to discuss the change in the contour plans surrounding the HIGH Clarke Junior High School and the compliants of debris and rub- SCHOOL & ble being dumped on the Cataldo Farm on Bow Street. CATALDO FARM ON Mr. Williams explained that the State demanded a holding BOW ST. pond for the run-off from the parking lot and roof. The Per- manent Building Committee requested the Conservation Committee to allow this holding pond be placed on Conservation Land. The holding pond area will be used for ecology study and in the winter the Recreation Committee will have it flooded for skating. It is understood that this will not be a pond with standing water all year but more or less a conpensatory storage for the run-off water. Mr. Heustis told Mr. Williams to check the maintenance for this holding pond and also to post the area so that the horses that are ridden on Conservation Land will not go on to the school property. The Board approved the holding pond. Mr. Williams explained that a number of complaints had been received by members of the Conservation Committee regarding the dumping of debris along the brook in the rear of the Cataldo Farm on Bow Street. Mr. Williams said he did not think the Cataldots were responsible for the dumping along the brook but they were bringing in rubble and debris and dumping it on the low land on the farm. He said he had seen trucks from Milford, New Hampshire and also the Town of Arlington trucks. Mr. Heustis said the Town of Lexington will clean the debris from the sides of the brook. He thought Mr. Cataldo was dumping the other debris, etc. under the assumption that he was re-claiming agriculture land. In a letter from the State Health Department dated January 13, 1970, it was stated that the State Health De- partment could see no objection to filling this site with clean fill which contained no putrescrible material. The filling of this land would probably be all right but a permit must be obtained from the Board of Health and then the Board would have to deter- mine what constitutes clean fill. Mr. Williams said the Conservation Committee was concerned with: