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Yarmouth Board of Health opens detailed review of green/home-burial requests, seeks water‑consultant input
Summary
The Board of Health discussed a private applicant's request for a home green burial and agreed to develop a comprehensive local policy covering setbacks, cause-of-death exclusions, markers, and coordination with DEP and the town water department; members asked the water consultant to appear at a future meeting.
The Yarmouth Board of Health spent the bulk of its Nov. 4 meeting discussing a request for a private green (home) burial and the creation of a formal town policy to govern such requests.
Jay, presenting materials to the board, said an applicant had come forward and that the board needed a “thoughtful, comprehensive, and well‑vetted” application and policy. He listed about a dozen items for the board to consider, including minimum lot size, setbacks from dwellings and septic systems, buffer zones near wetlands, whether family versus individual plots are allowed, who bears ongoing maintenance responsibility and what kinds of grave markers should be permitted.
Members repeatedly emphasized coordination with other agencies. Jay and others said the applicant had submitted a plot plan, survey and a hydrogeological/soil evaluation…
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