MINOT – Selectmen authorized Dean Campbell to sign a letter of agreement with the school committee that establishes the responsibilities that each board bears in having Minot Consolidated School supplied with water from the town garage well.
Selectmen Steve French said the signing fulfills one of the two conditions placed on the final approval for use of the 1997 well as a source for public drinking water. The remaining condition, that the town office’s existing leach field be moved more than 300 feet from the well, will be taken care of within weeks.
“The really good news (in the letter giving final approval) is the water meets all safety standards and won’t have to be treated at all,” French said.
The well at the school, which the town garage well replaces, fails to meet standards for levels of arsenic, radon gas and alpha-particle-producing uranium, and the cost to build a proper treatment system has been estimated at more than $71,000.
It will cost between $12,000 to $15,000 to bring water from the town well.
In other business, Road Manager Arlan Saunders told selectmen that he should be able to complete work on Pottle Hill Road by next week and that he will then move operations to Brighton Hill Road, preparing it for paving.
“We probably will be two weeks on Brighton Hill Road but I haven’t heard yet from Hebron and I need a letter from them if I am going to do the Hebron end,” Saunders said.
In May, Saunders was approached by a Hebron selectman to see if Minot could do the 1,584 feet of Brighton Hill Road that lies in Hebron in conjunction with the reconstruction of Minot’s end of Brighton Hill Road.
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