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Yarmouth board orders Title 5 inspection for Wilson cranberry bog; motion passes 4-1
Summary
After testimony from property co-owners and a health-staff report of an indoor shower and washer near a cranberry bog, the Board of Health voted 4-1 to require a certified Title 5 inspection within 10 days to determine where graywater is discharging.
The Yarmouth Board of Health voted 4-1 on Dec. 2 to require a certified Title 5 inspection of the septic/graywater conditions at the barn servicing the Mellow/Wilson cranberry bog at 16 Denver Drive.
Health staff said an inspection request followed observations that a shower and a washer hookup in a barn were discharging graywater near a cranberry bog; staff and the health agent, Barry Lewis, said there are no engineering records or an as-built plan on file and asked for a Title 5 inspector to locate where graywater is leaching. Lewis told the board a certified Title 5 inspector should report within 30 days of inspection, but the board motion set a 10-day window for scheduling the inspection and…
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