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Article: FUNERAL HOME CRITICIZED FOR WASTE DISPOSAL SELECTMAN'S USE OF SEPTIC SYSTEM IS CHALLENGED
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- May 19, 2002
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The chairman of the Board of Selectmen has come under scrutiny for
using a private septic system to dispose of waste from his funeral
home in downtown Wrentham.
Such a system should not be used for waste generated by the
embalming process, according to an official with the state Department
of Environmental Protection.
But Richard Ross, the selectmen chairman, and Robert Bogardus,
chairman of the town's Board of Health, say RJ Ross Funeral Home is
grandfathered into rules governing the waste disposal.
If Ross were forced to upgrade the septic system for his business,
he would probably have to spend thousands of dollars on a so-called
tight tank to be emptied by an industrial waste hauler, ...