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HomeMy WebLinkAbout1978-10-16105 M1 after hours getting more and more paper work done, he is also being given more jobs to do than he has time for. The Pittard agreed that Mr. Hutchinson should be contacted and a request sub- mitted for extra help for Mr. Smith. The following permits were signed by the Board: Syringe Permits Robert Cataldo, 3 cattle Anne M. Butler, 2 goats, 1 horse Francis W.K. Smith, 4 goats Barry Rose, 1 pony Ralph Frissore, 6 horses Diran D. Keshian, 2 horses Paul B. Lloyd, 2 steer, 5 horses 1 goat, 25 chickens Lelia B Barrington, 1 horse Food Establishment Permits Yangtze River Restaurant Living & Learning School Kentucky Fried Chicken Milipore Corp. Cafeteria Ginn & Co. Cafeteria W. R. Grace Co. Krebs School Foundation, Inc. Alexander's Pizza Shop Lexington House of Pizza Ralph Bishop's Seafood Minute Man Restaurant Grace Chapel, Inc. Hancock Market Meeting was adjourned at 10:00 P. M. Installer's Permits Arlex Oil Corp. (Dave Eagle) Swimming Pool Permits Minute Man Condos Association Mobile Food Server Philip F. Doherty Dwight Robinson Ben Freitas Retail Food Store Permits Hancock Market McArdle & Mottle, Inc. Alexander's Convenience Store Concord Hill Market Gloria. Food Store C V S Inc. Highland Food Mart Cheryl's Bakery Doran's Greenhouse Inc. Colonial Pharmacy Village Food Stores Inc (Mass Ave.) Village Food Stores Inc (Bedford St.) Royal Pastry Shop Melting Pot International Stop & Shop Companies, Inc. Mother Earth Natural Foods Cumberland Farms, Woburn St. BOARD OF HEALTH MEETING OCTOBER 16, 1978 The regular meeting of the Board of Health was held Monday 0ttober 16, 1978 at 7,00 P.M. in room G-15 of the Town Office Building. Members present were: Dr. William L. Cosgrove, Chairman; Mr. James W. Lambie, Dr. Michael S. Erdos and George A. Smith, Director of Public Health. The minutes of the September 11, 1978 meeting were approved with the cor- rection regardinn the permits at the Minute Man Condominium. Pool. Dr. Cosgrove reported that the Budgets would be due the 27th of October.BUDGETS Also the departments had been requested to show how they could reduce their FY - 80 budgets by 10%. Line items were discussed regarding a 10% reduction. Dr. Cosgrove stated there was no way he could see to reduce the personnel caroice accounts by 10%. i06 FLU CLINIC Mr. Smith reported that the Flu Clinic was scheduled for October 26, 1978, from 2 - 5 p.m. at Cary Hall for Senior Citizens and Town Employees, He also explained to the Board that we did have trouble obtaining influenza vaccine. The State has now informed us that the Federal Government would be suppling some vaccine on a limited basis but the vaccine will not be available until later on. Mr. Smith said that we might be allotted approximately 1140 doses for people 26 years of age and over and 210 doses for children age 0-25. He went on to say that this would not be enough vaccine to offer the general public and the department would be expected to purchase additional vaccine if a. clinic was held for the general public. Dr. Cosgrove asked if Mr. Smith had checked on the pneumoccoccal vaccine and he said "yes" it would cost approximately $5.00 dollars per dose. It is expected that next year it will be cheaper and there is some talk that the Federal Government might sponsor a clinic. Dr. Cosgrove instructed Mr. Smith to write to Mr. Tropeano stating that the Board of Health would not be conducting a pneumoccoccal vaccine program. Mr. Smith reported that Mr. Ralph Hall, realtor and developer, of HALL Thyme Farm on North Street, had called a number of times requesting an NORTH ST. extension of the high water tests and percolation tests done two years ago on lots he has on North Street. He explained that he had told Mr. Hall to put his request in writing so the Board would have something to vote on. He did explain that every house Mr. Hall has constructed in this sub- division has been placed on a different site than the original plans show. The Board agreed that there was nothing they could do until such time as Mr. Hall wrote his request. Mr. Smith explained that Lot 3, 56 North Street, the old barn has been 56 NORTH ST. *roved on the lot. The Board approved a septic system for this building in 1977 but the plan has been changed but the soil conditions for the septic system were still good. He said he just wanted to make the Board aware of the changes. Mr. Smith reported that he had received a letter a"d a copy of an BRUCCHI application from Mabel Owens, Department of Agriculture, Animal Health re - STABLE garding an application for a license to operate a riding school made by John Brucchi, 63 Paul Revere Road. Miss Owens stated in her letter that the regulations for the riding school will not supercede any of the Board of Health or Town regulations. The S.P.C.A. does have the inspection authority for this riding school. Mr. Smith said he had requested that Mr, Martin said he had requested that Mr. Martin of the S.P.C.A. be the in- spection agent and he has already reported that unless the manure was handled in a better manner he would not approve the license application. Mr. Smith reviewed the history of Mr. Brucchi's animal permits and stated that at the present tine he does have a permit to keep 8 horses. Also Mr. Littleton, Animal Inspector reports that he does keep a clean place but he has also suggested better handling of the manure. Dr, Cosgrove asked if Mr. Brucchi didn't have to go before the Board of Appeals to conduct a business in a residential area. 1 1 Mr. Smith said "Yes" but he had discussed this with Mr. Cohen, Town Counsel, Mr. George Wadsworth, Chairman; Planning Board and Town Counsel has advised that the only thing we c_: -in do is send a copy of the material we received from Mrs. Owens to the Board of Appeals and any other department affected by Mr. Brucchi's action. He said he will also send a letter to Mrs. Owens, Department of Agriculture and state that we have issued Mr. Brucchi a permit to keep 8 horses but that we will not have any jurisdic- tion over the running of the business. Mr. Smith reported on the rodent problem in the ?loodpark Estates Sub- WOODPARK division. Ha explained that to date he has met with the residents in the ESTATES - area, people at the National Park, the developer and Mr. Moran of the RODENTS cosquito control. The brook in the area has been checked and Mr. Lane the developer will clean it out but Mr. Smith said he would continue to work with the residents of the area until the problem is controlled. n,t 8:00 p.m. Air. Manfred Friedman, 176 Grove Street, came before the Board to discuss the mosquito control program. Mr. Friedman had sent to the Board members information he had taken from the New York Times, July 9, 1978 edition, regarding mosquito spraying and r'OSpT?TTo - control effectiveness. Mr. Friedman contends that the spraying for mosquitos FP717777AN is ineffective, a threat to the residents because of the chemicals and also a waste of the tax payers money. He also feels that the spraying could cause diseases in man such as cancer. The larvaciding work he feels only makes the mosquito insenitive to the chemicals. The drainage work is good but in his mind there is no way to control the mosquito. He went on to say that the drainage work done by the ^ast Middlesex Control people was probably the best work done, therefore, he would suggest they stop the spraying for mosquito control in nuisance conditions. Dr. Cosgrove asked how he would suggest that we get rid of the mosquito. Mr. Friedman said there was no Tway to get rid of the mosmuito, '1r. Friedman at this point also requested that he be referred to as Dr. Friedman. Dr. Erdos spoke about the comments made by Dr. Friedman and agreed that there was no proof that pesticides caused cancer or other diseases. He felt that spraying as a nuisance control might be necessary in a crisis year h'_it he did not feel that the spraying chemicals used could be any more harmful than the fertilizer or pesticide epr,ays used in the garden or on the lawns =end. the heriec. He went on to say he would want the right to spray in the problem .ears. These prob_i.c.s could result when there was exc..eeeive rain- fall or when the State claims there i s =n outbreak_ of d; lea se which could be carred by the n osTii n 7rdos egg _A that the.ditch-ng end drainage work ''as effeet-.ve andduripr- the nrobl.er; years this work sho" d be tronr'•.d 11p. �» Dr, Erdos went on to sa' t1' It he felt that =eying end other nreventive work should be ^to ---,ed up when documented. e:^_ses of ` os nito c� used di ee-ses are reported. He agreed that people could get very emotional about the mo'- 'Thto problem but he -Felt we would never control the nosouito and he -rent on to s v he thought at this ^oint we were talking abo'it a budget ;temp_. Dr. Friedman agreed it wae = budget item and he would like to see the di.tchi.ne 7nd drainage ,pori- continue bet the snravene he felt s`muld only be Clore :. hnn the Demartinent nF nubile Health et the 'tate level rerieoded it. He felt tl:e s7raving as it was done now =las very ineffective. Dr. Cosgrove cited a case of a.ethild he saw with her legs where mosquito bites had become infected, -lso another case of the Wood Park Estates where the child's head. had bites on it. bandaged children in He said we know that mesquitoes are a nuisance but he felt that they do cause disease and infection and yet all Dr. Friedman talks about is the use of pesticides. Dr. Friedman said he did not think Dr. Cosgrove understood his stand, he went on to say that we had been receiving the benefits of the East Middlesex Mosquito Control Program for some twenty years and people are still being bitten so he would therefore have to feel that this work was ineffective. Dr. Cosgrove said he had lived in Lexington a long time and he re- members when you could not go outside to the yard to sit because of the mosquitoes, yet today people are able to use their yards so something must have been accomplised. Mr. Lambie said that was a point he would like to make, he went on to say that Dr. Friedman has started off with the premise that the mos- quito program was ineffective yet he felt something was effective. Dr. Friedman again said he did The spraying is done in an area. and to the mosquito but in the meantime spray. not feel that the program was effective. for a few days there is some relief peoples homes are permeated by the Mr. Lambie said he was still not convinced that if you went through a whole summer without spraying that you would have the same number of mosquito. than if you had mosquito work done. After further discussion fore but he felt we were our member_ of the Planning Board the Wetland and fringe areas has let the developer put in for the mosquito and as long Dr. Erdos said he had not mentioned this be - own undoing. In fact, Dr. Friedman as a should be able to stop the development of where the wet areas are. The Planning Board retention ponds which are a breeding area as we continue to approve these developments we will have these mosquito problems. Dr. Friedman said that was a good point but the laws of the land did protect the developer. He felt that if the Board of Health would issue a statement to the Planning Board requesting them to hold up on any plans in a fringe area they would be delighted to do it. Dr. Cosgrove then called upon Mr. Kevin Moran, East Middlesex Mosquito Control Director. Mr. Moran thanked Dr. Friedman for his compliment regarding the ditching and drainage work, he went on to explain that in many areas he could not get in to do the ditching work but he did go up to Wood Park Circle with Mr. Smith and by working with the developer and the Health Director they hoped to solve some of the problems in the area. Mr. Moran said he felt Dr. Friedman should look at the Impact State- ment he has referred to so often because there were several misquotes made in the statement. He went on to explain and to rectify many of these statements regarding the larvaciding techniques and the spraying results. 1 1 1 109 9 He also said he had talked to Mr. Maxfield who had written this statement and Mr. Maxfield had been misinformed as to the larvacide techniques and a few other things. Mr. Moran explained about the different species of mosquitoes and the practice of spraying and other methods of control. Dr. Friedman had named a few towns which he said had withdrawn from the mosquito control program, Mr. Moran stated that a number of these Towns had already been in touch with him to resume their membership in the East Middlesex Mosquito Control Pro- gram or in other area programs. He also named the different areas in Town which had been sprayed during the warm weather. He also said he could control the mosquito by using a stronger spra•' but they did use a 10-' v?luie spray for the safety of the peoele and they did their spraying work in early evening when Bost people were inside and also at that time no harm would come to the honey bee. He went on to say they used the safest chemicals available and they are killing the mosquitoes that are there but they cannot control the ones that fly in from other areas. He said by waiting for the State Health Department to order spraying it could be too late in a disease control situation because although the State does a lot of testing it takes about 2 weeks before they order protection after a case of encephilities or other disease is diagnosed. He said he worked under the Department of Agriculture and they can move faster than the Department of Public health. Mr. Moran went on to say he felt that the Town was getting a good program for it's money especially the larvacide program, the winter pre -hatch program and the adult control program along with the ditching program. He explained that the ditching program is expensive and they cannot get to every ditch in a year. Dr. Cosgrove asked how safe the chemicals were and Mr. Moran said they were the safest chemicals available. He also pointed out that the Environ- mental. Impact Statement had been made in 1975 and he asked if t'l:r_e hadn't been improvements since then. Mr. Moran stated that this statement was made after the fact of the encephalitis outbreak in 1973 and 1974. He also explained further about this statement. After further discussion Dr. Friedman likened the mosquito control pro- gram to the use of sacchrine for people who are not able to tolerate sugar but can use sacchrine but there is always the potential of cancer the same can be applied to the mosquito spraying. Mrs. Brady, 2 Munroe Road, said that she and her child were affected by the spraying. She claimed she had written a letter to the Poard of Health regarding this problem about five years ago. Mr. Moran said he would check his records on this. A few other people spoke in favor of Mr. Friedman's ideas. Dr. Cosgrove thanked everyone for coming in. Dr. Friedman said he hoped the Board of Health would support him at the next Town Meeting when he talked about the use of the mosquito Control Program, 1r. Smith said he had worked very closely with Mr. Moran and he felt that the program was very effective. Mr. Michael Kasbua of Burroughs Corporation and Mr. Thomas G. Monahan BURROUGHS of Miller and Nylander, Division of Boston Survey Co., came before the CORPORATION Board to discuss the progress of the order to connect the Burroughs Corp- oration building to public sewer. Dr. Cosgrove reviewed the problem of the sewer at Burroughs Corporation, Inc. He stated that two Springs have gone by since the order to connect this building to public Sewer and he wanted to know what the progress was now. He said over a year ago he had been assured that the work would be done by now. Dr. Erdos was brought up to date on this problem as he had not been a member of the Board when this problem was first acted upon. Mr. Smith explained that this problem has been pending since he first came to work here, and it has been by various tests and studies been deter- mined that there is no way to correct this problee except by connecting the building to nubile sewer. At the present time to keep the problem under control the system is being pumped every other day. Burroughs Corp. has hired Miller and Nylander to draw the plans for connoting this to public sever. They have had to go through the Conservation. Commission, Engineering and the State Peblic Works Department. We do have a letter from Mr. C. Lorah of the Burroughs Corp. stating they hoped to have this work done by ,Tune 20th of this year but this is now October and we have not made any progress. Dr. -'rdos asked if this war -just an office hnilcli_nn_ or were there laboratories where chemicals were used.. Bo was_ told it was just an office building. Mr. Ra.sbua said that there was no chemicals used in the work it the building but Leonie were going in and out all da'r long. He said probably there was about 1.00 people in the bt,, idi „_g d. Irina the dey through the work week. Dr. Cosgrove asked !!r. Monahan if they had a plan yet? r. Monahan said Yes they did and chewed the Board the Plan. He also said they had filed for their Wetland Fearing which was set for Tuesday evening. This plan has been accented by the Torn ,-ngi.neers so they honed to st-rt work as soon as possible. The worse thing that can hanger now is to he socked in by the weather. Mr. Smith said that a lot of the work would depend on 1, eating the sleeve which goes under Route 2. 'r.. Monahan said that was right but they did not expect any further blocks now. Mr. Smith said Burroughs had boon holding their own by keening the system ntm!ped. Mr. Kasbua said that Burroughs was doing all they could to get this Corrected. Mr. Smith said he wanted to see this corrected because if it wasn't corrected soon he would have to close the building. Mr. Monahan said they would keep the Board informed.; The Board thanked the gentlemen for coming. i*r. Smith reported to the Board on the action th t was now being taken over at BiCentennial Estates. He explained that when the Conservation Commission had nut their order of restrictions on the subdivision, Mr. Freeman went to DEr)E and they gave Mr. Freeman permission to go ahead with his plans. (The DEQE can overrule the local boards). Dr. Erdos read a letter from Mr. Siegel to DEQE stating he felt Mr. Freeman had not completed his work properly. Mr. Smith explained that Mr. Freeman has obtained a letter from DEQE stating that he has net all the requirements but to date the Planning Board has not re- turned his bond and this is what he wants. He trent on to explain that he has also ordered Mr. Freeman to exterminate the rodents from the barn at 10 Bi - Centennial Drive. At the present time he has complied with this order, but the people in the area are complaining about the swale. The swale was on the or- iginal plans and the people knew that it was there when they bought the nroperty now they don't like it and want it pined under ground, this is a very wet area. The Board discussed this prob em and agreed that at the present time there was nothing the Board could do and they felt that the Planning Board held the trump card by holding Mr. Freeman's bond until everything was done right. Mr. Smith explained that he had a request for a. recommendation for nubile sewer for the Concord Avenue area over by the Belmont line. One nerson in this PUBLIC SEWER area is having trouble and to install sewer here they would have to install a CONCORD AVE. Pumping station. He said he felt that he could not give this area priority STRATHAM RD. at this time. He went on to say he was trying to get the Stratham Road area. on this years list because some of the systems there were in pretty rough shape. He said one house has the system in 3 different lots at the present time. !4r. Snaith explained that he had been working on a drainage problem in FRFEMONT ST. the Freemont Street area. A complaint had been received about a sewage odor DRAINAGE but to date it has not been located where the problem was. He explained that he had used dye in about 20 houses so far but nothing has been found there. There are about 3 more houses to be done and hopefully the source will be found. There is also the same type of problem on Paul Revere Road in the drain- age system of the Powers Village Subdivision, we will have to dc a lot of in- vestigative work in that area too. The application for a permit to keep one horse at 253 Lincoln Street was HORSE PERMIT discussed by the Board. The owner of this property is Renee Westerman. This 253 LINCOLN ST permit is denied by the Board because they have only 1.6 acres of land in- stead of the required 2 acres of land, there is no grazing area and the stable area is very limited. Also the abuttors are very close to this exea. Dr. Cosgrove explained that he had a call from a Jack Gardner regarding COMMUNITY an ad hoc cuimuittee for the Lexington Community Health Committee. He said HEALTH COMM. he told flr. Gardner to wait until Dr. Erdos who was our representative had attended a meeting scheduled sometime this month.