BOARD01669

• Board Meeting Date: 1/14/1970
• Description: Agenda or Table of Contents, Minutes, Memos
• Board Meetings - Doc Type: Meeting

trying to get a handle on a couple of problems,
one of which is the proposal for underground
storage of atomic or other toxic wastes. We
must begin to think of a lot of these things
not as disposal because you don't really get I
rid of the stuff, we are now thinking of it
as management. We are just putting it some-
where where we hope we can keep track of it.

Another related problem and a more general
one is the landfill and garbage and solid
wastes disposal he spoke of. Fundamentally
that problem is in the bailiwick of the Board
of Health, but we do have the responsibility
to see that whatever is done in that regard
doesn't cause pOllution of either the surface
or underground waters.

In an effort to get a better handle on
some of the problems we deal with in the
Water Pollution Control Commission we have
asked the Governor for assistance and he has
put on his call two items. One item is to
expand' the power of the Water Pollution
Control Commission to provide penalties. Up
to this time, the commission could issue a
cease and desist order and it is a matter of
taking someone to court after they failed to
comply with it and ask the court to assess
either - well. they couldn't assess a fine
because none was authorized, about the only
thing they might be penalized with is that
if they ignox'ed an order from the court to
stop, then they might be held in contempt
of court. I don't know how the courts deal
with that. This has been proposed and I
hope will be adopted to permit penalties to
be assessed on a daily basis 'for failure to
comply with a cease and desist order.

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One other small point but an important
one we thought, in the Board of Health law
relating to the use of septic tanks it is
stated that the state could not adopt a
standard Or a requirement for the use of