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i25O. T av _ inside Commonwealth transferred
to Toren T anar Account.
$1045. Laboratory Equipment, leaving $1000.
for new equipment.
$2700. New Car transferred to D.P.W. Account
Engineering Account was reduced from $700. requested to 5500.
Rabies Clinic was reduced from $1220. requested to $1000.
because Last year the vaccine returned off -set the price of the
vaccine used.
The approval for license for Pine Knoll Nursing Home was
signed by the Board.
By unanimous vote of the Board Dr. William Cosgrove was
elected Chairman for the coming year.
Meeting was adjourned at 11:45 P.M.
Dorothy Jones, Clerk 3/71
BOARD OF BIALTH
PUBLIC HEARING - MARCH 16, 1971
A public hearing for the granting of a temporary Innkeepers
License for an additional 6L units to be built at the Chalet Susse'
Motel, 4L0 Bedford Street, Lexington, Mass., was held Tuesday.
Larch 16, 1971, at 7:30 P.M. in the Board of Health Office. This
hearing is it accordance with Chapter 140. Section 32B of the
General Laws. Notice of this hearing was advertised in the local
paper on March 11, 1971, es required by this law.
Present at the hearing were: Dr. William L. Cosgrove. Chair-
man. Board of Health. Mr. James Lambie, Dr. Charles Ellicott,
Robert Heustis, Director of Public Health and Mr. Richard Kraska,
Proprietor of the Chalet Susse'. Inc. None of the abuttors to the
Chalet Susse' Inc., appeared in opposition to this request.
The Chalet Susse', Inc., is located on Bedford Street and is
serviced by the Pumping Station located on Brook Street. When the
original. 60 units were built by Chalet Susse', Inc., a new force
main had been installed at the Pumping Station and the additional
flow had been handled by the Pumping Station.
Dr. Cosgrove asked if John McSweeney, Town Engineer, had been
contacted to see if the Pumping Station would take the additional
flow from the additional units and restaurant without creating a
public health problem.
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Mr. Houstis said Mr. McSweeney hnd written a letter steting
that two contracts had been awarded under a grant from: the Fed-
eral Water Quality Administration and the State Division of
Weter Pollution Control for construction of a relief sewer and
alterations to the Brook Street Pumping Station. These altera-
tions should handle the sewage based on population saturation
and land use from this area.
Dr.
addition,
date.
Cosgrove
asked when Mr. Kraska planned to open his new
Mr. Kraska said he had set September 1, 1971 as a completion
Dr. Cosgrove asked when construction would take place.
Mr. Kraska replied as soon as possible, the bank was waiting
until he had the Innkeepers license before releasing his money to
start construction.
Dr. Cosgrove instructed Mr. Heustis to find out what the
completion date would be on the sewer construction work mentioned
in Mr. McSweeney's letter.
Mr. Kraska said he had talked to John McSweeney and had been
assured that there was no problems.
Dr. Cosgrove said the Board would like the assurance of Mr.
McSweeney that the work at the Pumping Station would be completed
by the time or at least at the same time the additional units at
the Motel were ready for occupancy._
Mr. Kraska said he was very concerned about the problems at
the Pumping Station when he learned of them, but he had no problems
with sewage with the first 60 units and no drainage problems.
Dr. Cosgrove explained that each Spring for a number of years
there had been problems with the Pumping Station and this has been
of great concern to the Board cf Health.
The Board asked if Mr. Kraska had to do any more filing on
the land.
Mr. Kraska said "No", and he understood. that the State had
stopped the filling of low lands along the Shawsheen r.5 ver.
Mr. 'amble said the inc.reaso cf i'T thousand gallons a day
could put quite a strain on the Pumping Station and unless the
Board was assured that the alterations would be made by they time
the new units oer, opened he would hesitate to apprce.e this re-
quest.
Kraske said he would like to start building in another
few weeks, h ee:the letter from ?o r cf Health .. hut . e aid need � t _r �_ �m th^ .�� 7 � "3 l� 1 to
present to the Bank handling the financial arrangements for the
Motel.
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