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Part 1 (Video ID: yMEzktihpO4):
- 00:00:20: Meeting Start, Minutes Approval, New Well Project Update
- 00:04:59: Seeking Funding Opportunities, State Representative Contact, South Street
- 00:09:51: Consent Over Action Items: Conservation, Leak Detection, Compliance
- 00:14:41: Consumer Confidence Report, Nitrate Levels, Water Quality
- 00:21:30: Consumer Confidence Report Mailing, Budget Update, Leak Detection
- 00:27:30: Forty Landing Road Discussion: Water Access and Regulations
- 00:33:51: Address Error and Interest Waiver Discussion and Approval
- 00:35:55: Water Conservation Restriction Approval, Meeting Adjourned


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All right. >> 402 order water commissioners. Um we can vote on both minutes. Can we now? >> Yep. Yes, we can. Yep. >> Is there a motion to

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approve for March 10th and March 24th? >> I'll make a motion to approve March 10th. >> So two and one absent. >> Burger. So for uh the list I have the new wall

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project update um the test problem is being installed. So the casing went in the screen went in >> um and that should have been pretty much wrapped up

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from that. They're gonna the client needs to do some ambient monitoring for about a week before the pump test can start on the large test. Um, so that's finally moving forward now

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in the right direction. >> A little bit of time, you know, over the winter, but at least now it's identified as well. >> Yeah. Whoever's on there identified like letter G, could you uh

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put your name in the chat or put your just speak up real quick so we know who you are for our minutes? What's the initial of the new administrator? >> FG. Okay.

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Do we do we don't record as >> Okay. All right. Keep going there. >> Um yes. So after this ambient week of ambient monitoring then they'll be back

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out to do the pump test. that days and the prime representative will be out along with our services who will be actually doing the pump test themselves. Um you know engineers from will be on

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site to monitor conditions and report whatever they need to be able to report to estimate the anticipated referral capacity of the size as well. Um they'll be collecting

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water quality data as part of this contest as well. Um so we'll hopefully have a little bit more to talk about in four weeks. We won't really know too much in two weeks. >> Yeah. >> Four weeks from now.

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>> Where are we at schedule? >> I think we're um off the most recent schedule that we saw by about a month. Is there any way to make up that time? Some of the >> you know maybe if when documentation

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gets submitted we can ask to expedite the review to try to help >> shorten that process as much as possible. Just trying to think about when we're really going to have to go to town meeting to ask for allocation of funds building on

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that. >> Yeah. Uh I can look at that for the next meeting and I think it'll be next spring, not this. I don't think we need to do that in the fall, but I'll follow up on that.

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We're continuing to potential funding opportunities that might be out there. I think we're still in early days right now for being able to position well for getting money for construction. But

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hopefully, you know, next early January, February time frame next year, we need to revisit the uh the want to stop opportunities with val and go over, you know, if there's anything that can get submitted

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through that. And I'd like to, you know, at least start talking about that January, February to be in advance of when the due dates are. They usually do in April, May. But it just takes time to coordinate with the different parties to come up

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with a good application that's going to score the best that it possibly can. >> Also, it's important that we be able to keep uh rep, you know, informed of where we are and so that they can advocate for any funding that may be available,

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>> right? Yeah. They can. And that would be something too if for any application that goes in through the the onetop program have letters of support from state also the potential for like your mark that

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>> so we got that in they pass this week now or next week or >> for the state's budget. Yeah. And so that >> we should know by >> kind of heard about that really late. So that would be something else that if you guys can get the contacts with the state

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reps or their aids, you know, >> said they did it. Dylan, I got a text back or email back that they did put something in his representative. So the on there question provided necessary information

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to get on stuff. Yeah. Between that and then also with the like US Senate reps >> when they come out with them. So if you already have those relationships with them and their aids,

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>> they might, you know, be more inclined to >> tell you when they looking for information rather than >> finding out through like Mass Waterworks less than a week before it's due. >> Right. So you want to contact both Keing and as

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well for federal stuff. >> Yeah. >> And Marky's office seems to champion >> a lot of it. >> Okay. And then the next project, South Street well cleaning. We're still waiting to hear back from the townhouse

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about those documents that went up there for an approval. >> Any idea with that, Chris? >> I checked in with the town administrator uh last Tuesday meeting and he said he was waiting back

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from town council in regards to that. But I think a lot of things right now have kind of put on hold so they can focus on budget concerns. So, I'm going to push him again. >> I would think that since it's with town council, it really doesn't they don't

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really have too much to do with, you know, the budget and they're pretty much almost a a blanket permit uh legal document. They should be able to turn it on quickly because we want to be able to get that so that we can get that in the pipeline early rather than late,

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>> right? And it was based on documents that they' already >> the same document. It's just a different name on it, you know, >> you know. Yeah, there may be some changes across town >> stuff. They don't know yet,

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>> right? I'm off next week. I was planning just stopping by and saying hi to the town manager. Is that something that would help this? >> By all means, yeah. I keep asking and I he he's the chief procurement officer and before we done that account will go

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to him to town council back to town ministry and to us. So might ask Scott if you can if Chris get in touch with town council directly maybe advance the information to them see

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where we are with it. Yeah, >> I can follow up with the town council and the town again tomorrow and see if I get a response and just I sent emails to town administrator with no response. >> Yes. >> Okay.

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>> Um and next item, the consent over action items. So, um I know we're still waiting for that to get signed, but we've been plowing forward on the compliance items with it anyway. And um so the water conservation

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ordinance that was still with you and to figure out, you know, the wording. Um so that's still something that needs to get finalized. The water use restriction summary um was prepared and to submit with the

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statistical report. So that was just a one page description of the one restriction efforts that were done last year to talk about the one day a week watering and >> all that. Um the quarterly comparison of

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water comes and water use that's something that Chris have you been doing that >> comparison of Yeah. start keeping some sort of tracking spreadsheet for that. Each quarter they want to just to show

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this is how much water we pumped and this is what the customer usages >> basis water use I think was the last meeting you voted to start. No, we talked about it.

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>> We have one more meeting before me first. >> And he talked about it in pass and it was an agenda item agenda. So, put it on the agenda for next meeting for sure then.

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So that will be the that one day a week ordering we've done in past year >> I don't know last year >> it was it was on Tuesdays evenings on

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you one day >> yeah I definitely pulled up the post the year before it was the regular Yeah, it was two days of watering, but >> yeah, spread it out. >> So, it's not everybody all in one day,

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>> correct? >> Yeah. >> Um Okay. So, yeah, you'll need to do that. And then the annual leak detection survey is working on getting proposals. >> Yes. >> That's just something that needs to get done this calendar year. So, that's

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still on schedule. the mass interweb and 36 audit. >> Chris has been giving information to a consultant. >> Okay. >> Yeah. Yeah. When you were

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>> last week. Yes. >> I can get I had to get one last document. I just finished up. So, >> okay. Perfect. So, we'll see what they come up with there and um go from there. And then the

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next item is the unaccountable water compliance plan. That was something that they wanted BP wanted to see drafted by June 30th. So, now that we got you got through the ASR and some stuff, we can

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focus on drafting that. And I'm picturing it to be something pretty straightforward. page or maybe a couple of page just to talk about the efforts that are being taken to reduce the unaccountable water. That's basically what they want to see.

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So things like you're doing the leak detection um and we'll take a closer look at your um the estimated water use, you know, the municipal flushing estimates and things like that that usages that don't

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have a meter. How do you go about quantifying those to make sure that when you submit the ASR will accept the information? Because if you don't properly document it, they they won't give it to you. They won't let you take credit for it.

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>> I'll pilot and zip into that too. >> Um yeah, that's I didn't put that on this list because it wasn't something that was like a pressing action item. It has a further out gate for some of the val. >> Oh yeah. Right. Right. Yes. Yeah.

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Doing that program about replacing valves to help with that. >> Absolutely. >> Yeah. The next item is the consumer confidence report. So you have a draft in your packet

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>> for the 2025 annual water quality report updated information on page two with the order that was on actually decreased about 4% from 204. So that was positive. That may be because of the

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more conservative body use restrictions going from three days a week to one day a week for non essential oil use. Um there's a little blur in here about the new well project and other

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updated water quality data. couple of additional items have to get added to the list. >> One of the things that the water quality data when I was at the sewer meeting last week, they talked about the nitrates at a couple spots and they had data up to like 2021 that was it was

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showing a middlegate a slight increase in in nitrate at the nitro levels. >> Yeah. Uh, do we have up to date info on on on how those are trending for our own samples? >> Yeah, I don't really get that data from because I didn't provide anything to

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them. CWM figure. >> Yeah, they test that gets tested for every year. >> Yeah. Well, they're making some claims about the nitrate levels. That would be interesting seeing how our data stacks up to what they're saying. >> Yeah. There was in the past um it might

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be 10 years ago >> was with Matt you probably Chris we've done a look at the nitrates for all the wells and just overall you know if anything else needed to be

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done in town they come from >> Sure. >> Yeah I know we did a big study before they did the uh last phase of Tin was there on Salt Street. >> Yeah. And so it had been like we were looking at it. We had a hydraologist look at it. This was like I said over 10 years ago at this point.

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>> So we can that that can always be you know revisited. Um but there weren't there weren't any wells that were close to the limit which is 10. >> Yeah. >> Certainly was a trend right now 2.33. I

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don't know which will it was from 2025. That is definitely an upward trend from both South Street and Milgate. But again, I don't know where which is to take >> maybe enough with trend, but we're still a long ways from anywhere near, you know, to suggest we we need to do

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something drastic. >> Five is the level. I saw that. So, it's a question. >> Yeah. Five is what the title five regulations were based on is trying to

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keep the levels no more than five because that's half of the MCL 10. >> Um it's you know the best estimate based on that title five. So, you know, depending on how much development there is and how if the this obviously there's

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septic systems that don't comply with because they're old and haven't changed properties, you know, they don't have to get updated. So, you can have levels in half over it for

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what concerns me is, you know, the sewer commission is looking at nitrate levels for a whole different reason than we would be. and to use here at elevated levels to justify the installation of you know sewer mains

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isn't necessarily compatible for what we're looking for for maintenance and maintaining our water system there certainly more recent data and the data uh it's not exclusively available through Chris. It's actually posted by

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the state. >> You can download it as an Excel file and it's very recently. Yeah. Once it go it gets uploaded by the lab from BD, >> correct? >> It's immediately available. >> Everybody so that they're using old data. >> Yeah, because I just didn't know they

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have this this quarry nitrate and nitrates. So, >> so but yeah, nothing alarming. There are some um additional PAS hits that we're starting to see now

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and it was non detected for years. Um I was talking with Chris about this earlier that the labs have lowered the amount that they can detect. >> So a few years ago they couldn't detect anything below two parts per trillion

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and now they are reporting numbers less than that. So it's not surprising that you start to see some results when they start looking at smaller and smaller thresholds. >> So it's still nothing that's even close to any kind of limit. It's just once

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it's something that the lab considers to be detectable, you have to report it on the annual water report. So we check the last page. devoted to

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water conservation efforts and encouraging that there's this table or um box that I have here. I think what we should do with that is just to instead of putting in the

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amount of the time because that could get changed if you implement the ordinance at the same time you're releasing this report it can't match. I think we'll just say refer to the current rules and rights or whatever.

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>> Similarly, um our rules that we voted in before um they're not in here. Is that not doesn't need to be in here? CC. >> Yeah. There's anything else that you think we should put in here for updates or

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>> emp graphics. They usually do the mailing that we do every year. this year to save some money um taking the lead from the town of people um they accept these flyers either in their June bills or I'm

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thinking about doing a separate mailing just like this with this QR code the report so that would save on um postition mailing um I don't want to do it in the bills because I don't trust that they will get put in the bills

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>> that would increase so this would be a separate mailing um and it's about um it's about $1,400 less than doing printing out mailing >> with our

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money. So um >> bylaw do we have any sort of direction >> we still have um available copies here in the office anybody that wanted them. So if you want if that's okay with you if you can take a vote on accepting that

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quote then I can let timing um >> accept a motion here to approve a quote from P&M Graph Associates. I'll make a motion to approve the quote from PM Graphics for

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>> 5485 with the printing in the mailing at 1600 and approximate postage. So >> 540 or 4485 >> 5485 >> 1600 and then 20 >> oh sorry45 >> save another bucks.

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So the motion is 44 is to approve the quote from PM Graphics Associates for printing and mailing of >> water report. >> Okay. >> Seconded and voted to >> help

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be with Jul. Um I don't have an update to bring to you because FINCOM put everything on hold in light of some recent discovery concerns and brought to their attention. Um so once they get to the some resolution on have better answers for

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that meeting with us to meet with us present our budget to them for meeting been postponed to June 6. tentatively right now June 6th town meeting

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that was announced at the end meeting by the town administrator going to postpone town meeting to be postponed. >> Yes. >> Oh wow. Okay. >> It has something to do with quantifying the 2025

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closing out the budget. can't really put together a budget for 26 until you got the budget on 25. >> It appears like they've retained Carol and George to assist in getting

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all the necessary documents and figures in place. Uh I've been reaching out to elite detection companies. I currently received two quotes back from two different companies waiting a third one. I was

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told I was going to have at the end of last week and I'm still awaiting that. >> So is this leak detection for the entire system or is this leak leak detection for the large meters that you were talking about? >> This is leak detection uh systemwide for

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the system on the ground detection. So once I have the third quote, I'm looking to present something to the board to discuss and move forward from that point. >> Might be, you know, if you reach out to that third company, you know, if they

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don't want to bid it, they don't bid it. We'll have to deal with with two quotes. As long as you we've done diligence and trying to get through quotes. If you don't get through, there's not much you can do about that. But we don't want to continue to delay, you know, the leak

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detection because we don't have a certain lead to continue to be moving forward. >> Yes. We just may have an additional lead to reach out to. So >> she'll let me know tomorrow on that. We'll go from there.

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>> As far as the HCO update goes, uh I spoke to the town administrator on that. he wanted to present to the boarding which he did. We're just waiting back on the town council to make sure there's no revisions with the changing of um staff

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with town council. So I'll follow town council tomorrow to see where we currently stand with that. We can proceed with signatures on that. Lastly, for the water commissioner's authority to implement rules and regulations. Again, the town administrator have sent numerous emails

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and town council awaiting that to get a clear answer that town administrator feels that it should be able to be handled by the quarter of water commissioners. Town council is looking at the legalities that it may require a town meeting low. So, we're just trying to get clarity on that and they'll be

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still waiting. I sent out numerous emails to both the town minister and town council. No response. >> Yep. 40 Landing Road. Nice. So 40 ling road has been kind of a hot topic um recently. Originally that

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was one continuous passhold of I believe it's 38 Ling Road and it was split off to be 3840 Ling. If you look at the planets the titles and everything. >> Yes, it was originally one continuous

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lot. They split the lot in half and which created a lot that is landlocked by the railroad tracks, the town owned property of the reed building which

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possesses no frontage on a public way and no access direct access to a water man. If you look further in your packets there, we pull up the rules and regulations that says no service shall be made beyond lot lines and requesting

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a water service must have water 6 in or higher body water service and the extension of water maintenance. So don't currently own any frontage on public ways of water.

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I guess the property owner that owns both parcels is looking to work with her engineer to do something. I don't know. I can't. >> Is this temporar property? >> Yes, it is. So, I don't know exactly how

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they're looking to do things. Um, it would be a a long service. I don't know what they're trying to what they're looking to what they're looking to do. Looks like they're doing a little land swap for a corner, but then they're getting out into town property that belongs to

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the recreation or controlled by the recreation department. So, it's still unclear to do that. Does it seem like there's a reasonable way to to accomplish this or is they just, you know, spend in the wind? The

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way that it's up there, it's it's a the town has a seasonal service that goes to supply to the ball fields in the back of the re that runs on the town property. The service for the existing occupied

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dwelling has a service that comes off of where the water man is along road. >> Oh, really? >> Yeah. The house has water off of the water man. It's straight thereing road. That's called an elevation change between the house and winding road, isn't it?

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>> Well, the water meets up top there. It runs up that >> road. It goes up the railroad tracks down the driveway. >> So, I don't know feasibility of that. I don't know where the meets and bounds are for town property. Looking at the assesses maps, it looked like it was a pretty

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tight situation with the town property that the wreck goes in that property there. So just I I just read our rules and regulations of what it states as far as the layout goes and I just

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I'm going to pass on. we can wait until next meeting because I don't think the shed deserves more water and I you know only because I know what the property was and is and you know to allow it on a 12,000 square foot lot

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you know so I guess they're looking to not necessarily I I don't know what the intentions are but looking what the existing structure is it's on peers I don't think that would be a suitable structure to convert to a hable structure And based that septic there's there's no

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septic there and that's a part of area town sewer. So I don't know how that falls with access for sewage right now unless it has frontage then it doesn't have water.

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>> Okay. I don't know what if this highlighted area is an easement they're looking for or corner swap. I don't I don't know how the the lay of the land is there with the

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use of the land that's there to impede on any access there to run water line or sewer line or other utilities. But it's been the office has received several calls regards this particular piece of property for redevelopment. >> I think we may need more more

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information from associated engineers on what the final use of the property really is to catch their showing. Do you want me to invite them? I can >> ask them if they've got more information. You know, you don't

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necessarily have to have a long discussion with them about it. >> Okay. >> No, no votes. >> No votes. If you'd like to provide more information like the

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rights we have in terms of what the property needs to have in order to have the criter based on that. >> All right. Someone looking for a waiver. >> Yeah. So, property owner has

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one on 59 street. He had come in and had changed his address from a PO box in to a current street address. in

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and when he did so we didn't change um we didn't change or we changed the PO box from man to Plymouth but somehow we didn't change I don't know there was a town there's a town man in Plymouth it

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was either man was left and Plymouth was put in or Plymouth was I can't remember how it happened it's correct now >> however he did not get his December available. So, he's requesting a waiver of interest on that. >> So, was this on us that was the mistake?

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>> Well, but he he just came in and clarified the address issue. >> In the meantime, there's the March bills going to the incorrect time. >> That's Yeah. >> So, >> so he received them the recent ones.

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>> He received the one but didn't receive the December one. He didn't receive December one. He shouldn't have received the March one. >> Some due to the post office with reporting addresses or >> No, I mean it was an error on our part. >> I I'll make a motion that we credit the

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interest back to the >> Yeah. owner of the property. >> Seems like the postman probably last time could have figured out too but didn't have we can't hold him >> move that we w the interest and so >> Okay. All right. Yeah.

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>> Yeah. But it's fixed now. >> All right. So, >> can you make a motion? >> But moved it. I'm second. >> Okay. >> Anything else we have on there? >> Discussion of the water conservation

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restriction. So, that was the document that um You wanted to have one final read of it. >> Yep. >> Regulation of water commissioners for town.

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>> I'll make a motion to approve the revised regulation to outdoor water use and seconded and voted to zero. All right, that is all and entertain another

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motion for a journal. Second and so voted. Thank you for attending. Whoever G is >> Yes, we did.