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HomeMy WebLinkAbout1975-06-02 ff / 0) The letter from Eric Clark "Soon Hill Pool Association requesting a variance to the regulation requiring residual chlorination on a semi-public MOON FILL pool Mr Clark stated that the Moon Hill Pool is chlorinated by hand each POOL evening after the pool is closed and the Pool Association object to install- ing a mechanical chlorinator to obtain the required residual chlorine as stated in the regulations Mr Smith said he felt that as he had insisted that other pools use the mechanical chlorinator this pool should be no exception The Board agreed that a hearing on this variance would be granted to Moon Hill Pool Association at the next Board Meeting It was suggested that Mr Smith request that Mr Oley bring in the test counts of the water in the Moon Hill Pool as stated in Mr Clarke's letter The variance to install a small dry well at 32 Sherburne Road was dis- cussed by the Board 32 SHERBURNE RD Mr Smith explained that Mrs Richards 32 Sherburne Road, had requested a variance requesting to install a small dry well to accomodate a cold water sink to be installed in a small work shop in the rear yard. There is no way to install this shop to the sanitary sewer Installation of this sink will meet the plumbing code and the dry well will be located 20 feet from the house and 12 inches below the surface The Board voted to grant this variance Mr Smith was instructed to write to Mrs Richard stating that only a lavatory sink may be installed. Mr Smith reported that Mr John the hairdresser was planning to in- stall a small retail store in the rear of his shop He is planning to sell bake goods and sone "Deli" articles For this to he approved he must install MR JOHN* a mop sink refrigerator and "Deli" case Mr Smith spoke about the list of lead paint victims Dr Ellicott said he felt this report should be followed more closely He said he would get in touch with some of the high counts and see in' they are being followed up Dr Cosgrove moved the Board go into Executive Session because there were a number of items to be discussed that could be harmful to a person's reputation or to their business BOARD OF HEALTH MEETING JUNE ? 1975 The regular meeting of the Board of Health was held Monday June 2 1975 at 7 00 p m in Conference Rood G-15 of the Town Office Building Members present were Dr :illiam L Cosgrove Chairman Mr James W Lambie Dr Charles Ellicott and Director of Punlic Health George a Smith The minutes of tne lay 5 1975 ,eeting were approved as typed At 7 00 p - e- Eric Clarbe '.r arry Ni~no and Dr Feeney of tue ..CON :ILL ..con IIill Pool ".ssociatio came before t e Eoard to request a var.-ar,:e to POOL the Sanitary Code Lr` ole I �e,'latin- 25 1 Chlor—nat on of ''''e �e:R. 5 5�� Cr Mr Clare explained to the Boar' that s—ee the pool was constructed t.t611 in 195" tier, .acre not used a mechanical ciil.ori nater and did not want to .ise one To e•plained that the pool services no more than 50 families at an-, one time and therefore the, felt that the proced"re of heavy chlorins- t .on a pool closing time kept the pool relatively free of bacteria during he sr riming time :Ar_ Lambie asked if the gentlemen had any records or tests to show the Board that this operation was safe irr Milano said "No" they did not have any records but he would gladly submit to any tests that the Hoard asked to prove that this manner of chlor- nation was safe and acceptable. rir rimno quoted statements from Paddock Pool Company, designers of the Moon Hill Pool to the affect that continuous chlorination was necessary only for heavy swimming loads such as a municipal pool and therefore as their pool was restricted to almost a "small family type" membership it was not necessary to have continuous chlorination with a residual chlorine Dr Feeney said he felt that it was not necessary for their type of operation to keep a residual of chlorine in the pool such as the regulation called for Mr. Lanbie said he felt that it was up to the people from the Moon Hill Pool Association to present to the Board facts and fugures to prove that their manner of chlorination was as acceptable as the regulation they are requesting a variance from Dr Ellicott said since these regulations were adopted in 1969 the operation of all semi-public pools have been made more stringent Mr Smith said he felt that the burden of proof was on the requester of the variance Dr Feeney said he thought the proof was shown just by their operation where no one had become infected by using the pool over the years In his opinion surveillance was all that was necessary Dr Ellicott said we have no proof that no one has become ill over the years using the pool Dr Feeney said people in Lexington were so fastidious that we would have been notified Dr Ellicott said he felt we should have some records of the Coli counts over a period of time Dr Cosgrove recalled that since the pool was built various Health Officers have had problems getting this pool run by the regulations Mr Mimno said he or some other member of the association put chlorine in the pool every night and they felt this was adequate, Dr Ellicott asked Mr Smith what sort of monitoring he would require to approve this pool Mr Smith said thorough record keeping would be the only way that the Board would have enough data to grant a variance Be asked Mr. Mi.mno if he eiYit had any records regarding the attendance back wash and etc , also the pool load f`or the hottest days Record sheets were distributed to all pools last year therefore sone of this information should have been kept Mr Mimno said he was surprised but even on the hottest days last year the attendance was very low in fact many times when he went to the pool to swim he was unable to because there was no one in the pool at the time and their regulations require at least one other person swimming at the time one wants to go into the pool After further discussion of the water treatment for this pool it was decided that Mr Smith would check the pool and report back to the Board at their next neeting It was also suggested that sone records be kept of the chlorine treat- ment, bathing load backwash etc. Also same coli rests of the water should be done by a private laboratory. Mr. Mimno and Dr. Feeney thanked the Board and retired. Mr. Robert Connolly from the Life Support Equipment Corp. came before BREATHING the Board to demonstrate a breathing machine. MACHINE Dr. Ellicott explained that Mr. Connolly came to him to see if the Board would be interested in setting up a clinic. Dr. Ellicott then turned the meeting over to Mr. Connolly. Mr. Connolly explained that if the Board was interested in having a clinic his company would set up four or five stations and instruct nurses how to operate the machine. A screening program of this type would indicate if a person was in need of medical help. He felt that with environmental con- ditions as they are today's people should be checked regularly. Mr. Connolly went on to say that he felt his machine was very accuratei The cost to the Board would be about 50 cents per person. This would be for the cones used in the machine, the machine would be donated free of charle by the Life Support Equipment Corp. Dr. Ellicott thanked Mr. Connelly for coming in and told him the Board would discuss this screening program further. Mr. Connolly thanked the Board and retired. Mr. Anthony Cataldo's daughter came before the Board to request a permit to keep one horse at Gold Ribbin Farm, 1265 Massachusetts Avenue. CATALDO HORSES It was explained that part of the open shed now used for the oxen would be enclosed for the horse, plans were given to the Board for this construction. Mr. Smith explained that the abuttors had been notified and to date we had not heard from any of them, therefore we could presume there was no objection to the one horse. The Board agreed that if a suitable stall was constructed there would be no objection to keep one horse. Mr. Smith said he wanted the stall completed within two weeks time. Mr. Smith reported that he had met with Dr. Yudawitz and his engineer to WILD ACRE discuss the installation of Town Sewer to Wild Acre Inn, 40 Percy Rd. At INN s cr the present time the estimated cost of connecting this house to public sewer is approximately $16,000. Dr. Yudowitz is going to write to the Imogy Board requesting a six months extension of time to connect to public sewer. He will use this extension time to contact his abuttors to see if they would be willing to join him in financing this sewer line because this line will benefit them. In the meantime he is keeping this system pumped out. Mr. Smith went on to say that Dr. Yudowitz had done quite a lot of work on the building but there was still a lot to be done. Dr. Cosgrove said he was not against granting Dr. Yudowitz an ex- tention of time on the sewer connection but he did want to be sure this system was tied into public sewer before the winter. Dr. Yudowitz is to get a work schedule to the Board before the next meeting. 653 WALTHAM Mr. Smith reported that the house at 653 Waltham Street had done sane STREET repair to the septic tank but this was not done until they had been told they would have to go to court. 33 SYLVIA ST. Mr. Suave, 33 Sylvia Street, had finally installed a fire escape to make the second exit for the second floor apartment as required by law. Mr. Smith had asked the Board members to check the condition of the stable and corral at 205 Wood Street. He explained that Mr. Jenkins, 1205 WOOD ST, developer of the houses in Springdale Estates which abutts 205 Wood St., felt that the horses were a public health problem. Mr. Smith said he had investigated this place a number of times and could find nothing wrong with the area. Dr. Ellicott and Dr. Cosgrove said they had both been up to inspect this area and they could see no major health problem. It was finally suggested that a letter be sent to Mr. Jenkins telling him that unless he would like to put his complaint in writing and request a hearing of the Board, the Board could not find any major health problem. The letter from the recreation committee regarding the use of "OLD RES" floatation devises at the Old Res was discussed by the Board. It was agreed and by unanimous vote the Board will prohibit the use of any floatation devices at the Old Res except those that are used in the instruction given by the qualified personell at the Res. Mr. Smith said the Lexington-Sheraton Motor Inn had requested per- mission to serve food at pool side again this year. This year the ser- LEXINGTON- vice would be all single service, cold sandwiches, cole slaw, pickles SHERATON and this would be under refrigeration until served. There would be no MOTOR INN glass service used at all. The Board agreed that they would have no objection to the outside food service at Sheraton Motor Inn providing they followed all the conditions as stated by Mr. Smith. Mr. Smith explained that a revised plan for Ingleside Subdivision INGLESIDE had been submitted to the Health Department. The report from the Town SUBDIVISION Engineer did not answer the questions which we wanted answered, there- fore, there was no action the Board of Health could take on this subdivision at this time. Mr. Smith reported to the Board that the requests for Lead Paint LEAD PAINT Poisoning Detection in homes in Lexington was increasing rapidly. He TESTING went on to explain that home owners, realtors, lawyers and buyers were contacting the Department for this testing. Some of these requests are because of the law about selling houses to people with children under six years of age the homes must be tested. At the present time it takes about 21: hours to do one house and with more requests this could become quite a problem. He went on to explain that the machine used to detect this lead in paint is expensive but he wondered if it would be worthwhile to look into purchasing one because it would speed up the detection process a great deal. This machine is also expensive to maintain. After same discussion it was agreed that Mr. Smith should try to set up a demonstration of this machine for the Board. Mr. Smith said he would like the Board to check out Freeman's Barn 83 CARY AVE. at 83 Cary Avenue. He explained that at the present time the place was filthy, piles of manure around the brook flowing through the property smelled very bad. If the Board looked this place over he would get in touch with Mr. Freeman and see if something could be done. Mr. Smith explained that notice had been received from the State Health Department that water testing at the pools and beaches were going to be dis- continued because of a reduction in staff. This will curtail the program WATER that was planned for all the pools (semi-public) and the public pools and TESTS the Old Res this coming season. An estimated cost for water sampling by a by a private lab was $8.00 per sample which we feel is too much. Mr. Smith said we would continue to do the Old Res and the public pools but we would not do the semi-public pools. Dr. Cosgrove suggested that it might be worthwhile to look into hiring a college boy to do some of this work this summer. This was something that would have to be discussed with Town Manager. Mrs. Ellen Sharkey, 13 Hazel Road, has submitted a renewal application to keep 6 horses, during the year a letter was received from Mrs. Warwasky stating that she withdrew her permission to Mrs. Sharkey to use 2 acres of land for coralling and grazing horses. In going over the records it was noted that Mrs. Sharkey had only 2.377 acres of land which is not enough for 6 horses. Mrs. Sharkey will be notified of the Board decision to cut the number of horses she may keep to four. Mr. Smith reported that two lots on Piper Road were approved and sur- PIPER RD. prisingly they were able to design a workable septic system for these lots. Mr. Lambie said he had a complaint from Mrs. Riffin regarding sheep MOSELEY being kept in the basement at 12 Field Road, house owned by Moseley. Mr. SHEEP Lambie asked if this could be checked out. After some discussion Mr. Smith said he would check this complaint out and see what was going on. Meeting was adjourned at 10:30 p.m.