MINOT – The project to bring drinkable water to Minot Consolidated School is moving forward with installation of more than 2,000 feet of pipe from the town garage well to the school.
“We did it in just under three days, including stumping out the right of way,” Road Manager Arlan Saunders said.
Selectmen Steve French noted that connections at both ends remained to be completed, something that well driller Skip Hodgdon will be called in to do. He said he was still trying to determine whether a booster pump will be needed at the school.
French expressed confidence that the project would be completed in time for the start of the new school year.
For the past year and a half, the school has relied on bottled water because the old well failed in December 2003 and a new well, which was drilled during the holiday vacation, had high arsenic and radon readings.
Selectmen responded to the request made two weeks ago by Candace Benwitz and Dan Gilpatric of the town’s recreation committee to release money to build an access road into the property by setting up yet another committee of representatives from selectmen, school committee and recreation committee.
The reason for the new committee is because the town meeting vote to harvest wood from the Morrison and Hanscome properties gave the school committee the authority to spend the money, selectmen authority to say what the money could be spent on, and the recreation committee developing a plan for the property.
In other business, selectmen formally accepted the audit report for the year ending Jan. 31, 2005; set Sept. 26 as the date for a public hearing on a proposed cable television ordinance; and appointed Mary Buker, John Geismar, Larry Jackson, Karen Nichols and Pam Snow to join Lisa Sabatine on the recycling committee.
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