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Board approves upgrade and deed restriction at 12 Baltimore; 113 Hammock Pond deferred after cost and groundwater questions
Summary
The board approved a septic upgrade at 12 Baltimore Street with a three‑bedroom deed restriction; a separate request for 113 Hammock Pond Road was continued to the September meeting so the applicant can provide excavation and mitigation details after a high‑cost estimate and complex groundwater conditions were discussed.
The Nantucket Board of Health on Aug. 21 approved a local variance to allow an upgraded Title 5 system at 12 Baltimore Street in Madaket, subject to a deed restriction limiting the property to three bedrooms. A more complex request for 113 Hammock Pond Road was continued to the September meeting after the board asked the applicant to provide additional excavation, sand replacement and mitigation details.
12 Baltimore Street: Don Bracken, the engineer for the applicant, described a proposal to replace an undersized three‑bedroom system with a new SeptiTech denitrification system and pressure dispersal soil absorption field. The proposed system required variances from local Madaket setbacks and a local nitrogen‑sensitive area setback; the department recommended…
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