Plympton Board Approves Septic Variance, Warns Hauler on Inaccurate Pump Records

PLYMPTON -- February 10, 2026, Plympton's Board of Health approved a septic repair variance for a property straddling the Plympton-Halifax town line and put a local septic hauler on notice over repeated pump-record discrepancies at its February 10 meeting. The board voted unanimously to allow a sieve analysis in place of a percolation test at Zero West Street, a blueberry farm addressed as 6 East Street in Halifax, and approved the accompanying repair plans after a review engineer confirmed all comments had been incorporated. On a separate matter, the board directed staff to contact Wind River, a licensed septic hauling company, to demand formally corrected records for two Plympton properties whose November 2025 pump records contained alarming notations, a system over full with leachfield runback at 23 Prospect Street, and an unspecified safety hazard at 76 Upland Road, that a Wind River supervisor attributed in both cases to technicians pushing the wrong button on a checklist. The chair stated plainly that "if they're not going to honestly self-report, then they can do it somewhere else," and noted the hauler's license renewal is decided by board vote. The board also flagged growing urgency around a Ricketts development project at the ZBA seeking a blanket exemption from all local Title 5 regulations, with the next ZBA hearing set for March 11.