238 Sewer Connection BOARD OF HEALTH
MEMBERS
IRA DOURMASHRIN,RN.O,air
£MARIE KARPARIS,RN.,MPH
ARD P.BRUNSWICK,M.O.,MPH
:TER 0.McERIAIN,RS.,MPH
Health Agent
(413)587-1214
FAX(413)587-1221
March 21, 2002
CITY OF NORTHAMPTON
MASSACHUSETTS 01060
OFFICE OF THE
BOARD OF HEALTH
210 MAIN STREET,Room 8
NORTHAMPTON,MA 01060-3167
Ms. Ann-Marie Moggio
238 Bridge Street
Northampton, MA 01060
Re: 238 Bridge Street- Improper Connection to the City's Storm Drain System.
Dear Ms. Moggio:
The Northampton Board of Health is in receipt of a notice from the Northampton Department of
Public Works (DPW)which indicates that a dwelling owned by you at 238 Bridge Street, (Assessors
Map 25C, Lot 85), Northampton, has a sanitary sewer line improperly connected to a storm drain.
Raw sewage from your dwelling flows into the storm drain system and ultimately reaches the
Connecticut River near the Waste Water Treatments Plant on Hockanum Rd. This was verified by
the DPW utilizing tracer dye tests.
This condition, the discharge of sewage effluent into the waters of the Commonwealth, constitutes a
Public Health Nuisance and also violates 310 CMR 15.303 of the State Sanitary Code.
Therefore, under authority of Ch111, Sec. 123 and 127 of the Mass. General Laws, you are hereby
ordered to make a good faith effort to abate the nuisance by connecing your dwelling's sanitary
sewer line to the city sewer system within sixty(60) days of the receipt of this notice. You or your
contractor must obtain a sewer entrance permit from the DPW. All work must be done in accordance
with the requirements of the DPW concerning connections to the city's sewer system.
Please be advised that your are entitled to a hearing on this notice, provided that a request for such a
hearing is filed in the Board of Health office within seven (7) days of the receipt of this notice.
Please feel free to contact me at the Board of Health office with any questions.
Very mly yo��
Peter J. McErlain, Health Agent
cc: Ned Huntley, Asst. City Eng., Northampton DPW
Cert. Mail#7001 2510 0004 8173 5716
morandum
To: Peter McErlain, Director,Board of Health
From: Ned Huntley
c: George Andrikidis,P.E.
George Brehm, DPW WWTP
Carolyn Misch, OPD
Ann-Marie Moggio,Owner of record
Date: March 20,2002
Re: raw sewage to stonnwater line
Department of
Public Works
Engineering
Division
On March 19,2002, Northampton Department of Public Works(DPW)staff performed dye testing in a
portion of the building located at 238 Bridge Street(Assessors Parcel 25C-085). The results of the dye test
were inconclusive. On the morning of March 20,2002,the Wastewater Treatment Plant off Hockanum
Road reported that red dye was in the streambed.
On March 20,2002,a second dye test was performed. DPW staff observed the dye flowing through a
stonnline manhole on Bridge Road at the intersection of Lincoln Avenue.
It is apparent that there is a connection from this building to what is known as the"Williams Street Storm
Sewer". The"Williams Street Storm Sewer"is an old line that was abandoned for sanitary use many years
ago. It still functions as a stormwater line and empties into a streambed at the Wastewater Treatment Facilty.
Please call if you have any questions.
Ned