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Yarmouth Board of Health advances draft green home-burial regulation, asks staff to seek DEP and water-department guidance
Summary
The board reviewed a draft green (home) burial regulation and instructed staff to clarify Zone 2 (Aquifer Protection District) constraints with DEP and the Yarmouth Water Department, refine buffer/setback language, and create an application/checklist and record-keeping plan.
The Town of Yarmouth Board of Health spent a substantial portion of its Dec. 16 meeting reviewing a draft green home-burial regulation and directing staff to resolve outstanding technical and jurisdictional questions before holding a public hearing.
Staff presented a draft regulatory process: finalize the regulation with board edits, hold a public hearing, vote and then file with the clerk for the required public/appeal period. Board members repeatedly raised concerns about sites that are partially within the town’s Aquifer Protection District (Zone 2). The water consultant…
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