Littleton Board of Health Approves Monarch Drive Septic Variance, Continues Two Others

LITTLETON -- March 8, 2023, Littleton Board of Health approves Monarch Drive septic variance, flags dump-site water risk at Spectacle Pond Road. The four-member board voted unanimously March 8 to grant a Title 5 variance under 310 CMR 15.211 allowing the replacement leaching area for an existing Monarch Drive office building to cross a new lot line by easement, and a six-month permit to run the existing system at roughly half capacity while electrical conduit is installed, clearing the way for a paired warehouse development by VMD Industrial 5 LLC and CDK Venture 1 LLC. Engineer Susan Carter of Places Associates, presenting for the second time, noted the upgraded system will replace a 37-year-old septic installation with a STAR pre-treatment unit. A separate variance request for a new sewage disposal system at 6 Spectacle Pond Road, a 40,000-square-foot office lot in Zone 2 of the town's public water supply and Aquifer District, was continued to March 22 after member Kevin Davis raised concerns about the site's proximity to the former municipal landfill and an unresolved PFAS contamination history at a nearby Spectacle Pond public supply well, and identified missing pipe-sleeve notation and potential Title 5 violations involving leaching trenches partially beneath a bituminous concrete driveway.