Lakeville Board of Health approves Anaconda Drive septic variance, cites site constraints

Board of Health · Meeting of July 15, 2026

Lakeville Board of Health approves a septic variance at 10 Anaconda Drive and receives public health advisories on wildfire smoke and cyclospora. The board voted unanimously Wednesday to grant a local upgrade variance reducing the required groundwater separation from four feet to three feet for a proposed four-chamber flow diffuser repair at the Anaconda Drive property, with the plan achieving a 3.7-foot separation — three-tenths of a foot short of the regulatory minimum. The engineer from Outback Engineering told the board that a basement bulkhead prevented raising the system's invert any higher, and members noted no abutting wells fall within 150 feet and that site drainage runs away from the property's own well.

A second variance hearing, for 15 Staple Shore Road with Zenith Consulting Engineers, was continued to the August 5 meeting at the applicant's request. The board's health agent advised that Canadian wildfire smoke was expected to worsen July 16 before clearing by July 18, that West Nile virus-positive mosquitoes had been detected in Plymouth and Bristol counties with no human or animal cases confirmed, and that a cyclospora gastrointestinal illness that spread from Michigan to Massachusetts had not yet been traced to a specific food source.

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Source: the Board of Health meeting of July 15, 2026, reported from the official video recording and transcript.