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Dighton Water District 192 Williams St. No. Dighton, Ma 02764 Sue Medeiros Paul Joly Paul Pacheco COMMISSIONERS Carol A. Stevens TREASURER July
8, 2010 An
emergency meeting of the Dighton Water District Commissioners was held at the
District office. Chairman of the
Board, Sue Medeiros said, “I’ll step down and make a motion we open the
meeting.” Paul Joly
said, “Second.” Paul Pacheco said,
“Second.” Sue Medeiros said, “All in
favor. Ayes have it.” Superintendent,
Charles Cestodio said, “Number one the well at
Cedar #2 was cleaned out in April I can’t keep up we pumped one million
twenty thousand gallons the other day.
I had to file a drought management report back into 2008 I was showing
Donnie last night not officially in effect now but what’s going to happen is
unaccounted for water if this ruling was in effect two months ago we would’ve
already gone into a mandatory ban restricting water use 9:00 A.M. to 5:00
P.M. that was
guaranteed it goes by Annual report, I’ve been discussing it with Marc
Owen.” Paul Pacheco asked, “What if
they run the plant a little bit slower?”
Charles Cestodio said, “Like I said I can
only get so much I’ve got to keep up I can’t even keep up with the demand in
the system now.” Paul Pacheco said, “Right.
How many hours a day are we running it?” Charles Cestodio
said, “It all depends the other day I had the plant running for nineteen
hours.” Paul Pacheco asked, “Did we
readjust the schedule for that?” Prime
Operator, Dorian Jefferson said, “Yeah we adjusted our schedule.” Paul Pacheco asked, “So what are we going
to do go back to two shifts?” Charles Cestodio said, “I’m going to try two shifts again I’ve
got guidelines that are set. Step #1
odd/even right now.” Sue Medeiros
said, “I don’t see that’s a problem.”
Paul Pacheco asked, “How about we try odd/even voluntary odd/even last
time water ban on the figures shot right up by usage per day right after we
put it on my feeling when you make it mandatory they sneak out there at night
when we don’t have somebody.” Paul Joly said, “You do it voluntarily they’re going to abuse
that too.” Sue Medeiros said,
“Voluntary they’re going to say I can do whatever I want I say it’s got to be
mandatory Paul for now odd/even mandatory you have a garden you don’t have to
water your garden every day.” Paul
Pacheco asked, “Now what is that absolutely no water outside?” Charles Cestodio
said, “No, based on your house number.”
Paul Pacheco asked, “What about washing a car?” Charles Cestodio
said, “Same thing you can do anything you want as long as it’s on the right
day.” Paul Pacheco asked, “No outside
water at all on the off day.” Sue
Medeiros said, “It’s not like we’re doing it every day 9-5 we’re just doing
odd/even.” Dorian Jefferson said, “I
showed them the pumping rates versus last year and this year almost doubled
we’ve almost used as mush water in seven days as the whole month of last year
in July.” Sue Medeiros said, “I’m
going to make a motion Chuck you want us to do mandatory odd/even I’m going
to step down I make a motion to allow Chuck to post a notice we will go on
odd/even mandatory until further notice is that okay?” Paul Pacheco said, “I would like to do
voluntary first to try it to see.”
Paul Joly said, “I’ll second the motion
mandatory.” Sue Medeiros asked, “You
guys think that’s what could work?”
Charles Cestodio said, “That’s the first
step.” Sue Medeiros said, “Ok we’re
going to take a vote, all in favor.”
Sue Medeiros and Paul Joly were in
favor. Paul Pacheco said, “I’m
opposed.” Sue Medeiros said, “Motion
carries.” Sue Medeiros said, “We meet
again on the 27th Chuck if you feel its gotten
better we’ll discuss it again Carol put it on the agenda unless another
emergency comes that we have to do it every day.” Paul Joly asked,
“How long is this good for?” Charles Cestodio said, “Indefinite until we lift it.” Sue Medeiros said, “Until further
notice.” Charles Cestodio
said, “I’ve got the letters to go to D.E.P. already.” Paul Pacheco asked, “So when does this go
into effect?” Charles Cestodio said, “Immediately.” Sue Medeiros said, “Immediately.” Charles Cestodio
said, “On cable, Taunton Gazette, anybody with underground sprinkler system
or anybody with sprinklers we’ll stick a note on their door.” Sue Medeiros said, “Chuck if you find
between now and July 27th that it’s gotten worse and we need to do something
…” Paul Joly
said, “We’ll outlaw all outside watering the other problem we’re going to run
into running into a problem now we start getting these subdivisions coming in
do we have enough water?” Sue Medeiros
said, “Step down, I make a motion to adjourn at 12:03.” Paul Joly said,
“Second.” Sue Medeiros said, “All in
favor, ayes have it. If anything happens get e-mails out to us if we need to
meet again.” Respectfully
Submitted, Carol
A. Stevens District
Clerk Those
in Attendance: Sue
Medeiros Paul
Joly Paul
Pacheco Charles
Cestodio Jr. Carol A. Stevens Dorian Jefferson
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