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Board grants variances for Next Level Watersports; staff and board set inspection conditions
Summary
The Nantucket Board of Health on March 20 approved variances allowing Next Level Watersports to operate a primarily water-based day camp without a fixed land base, but the board required inspection access to vessels and annual review.
The Nantucket Board of Health on March 20 approved a set of variances permitting Next Level Watersports to operate a mobile day camp that picks up and drops off campers at the town pier rather than from a fixed, inspected land base. The board approved the requested variances by voice vote: 4 in favor, 0 opposed, 1 abstention.
Attorney Rick Bodette, representing Next Level Watersports, asked the board to grant variances from multiple camp requirements in the state regulations — including site location, emergency medical facility, shelter, sewage disposal, and handwashing facilities — on the ground that the operation can achieve "the same degree of protection" through alternative measures while operating primarily on the water.
John Geary, the camp operator, described…
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