Evacuation Plan Discussed

Do Westborough residents know how to evacuate the town during a major storm?

Several department heads, including Director of Public Health Paul McNulty, discussed an evacuation plan with a Massachusetts Emergency Management Agency representative in May.

"We discussed the various routes out of town," McNulty told the board of health in his May report.

"I believe that this was a preliminary meeting that will eventually end with an evacuation plan for the town."

Meanwhile, McNulty said board of health meeting minutes dating back to the 1960s are "now searchable for key words."

The documents were scanned by Roberta Walker, the senior worker assigned to health department office, McNulty said.

"She will be doing (the) director's monthly reports since 1980, then the sanitarian's and health inspector's reports," he said.

Sanitarian Steven Baccari said in his May report that he and McNulty did a construction check at Dunkin' Donuts, 183 Turnpike Road.

"They're getting close," Baccari said.

"The facility will probably be ready to open mid to late June."

Baccari said he also responded to a number of complaints in town last month, one about "an overflowing Dumpster and blowing trash from the Dumpster at CVS."

"The Dumpster had been emptied by the time I got there," Baccari said.

"I did not see any blowing trash."

Baccari also told the board that Westborough had one case each of salmonella and malaria in May.

Meanwhile, Health Inspector Terry Gilchrist told the board she did several routine inspections last month.

One was at the Cheng Du, where she found 22 violations, including four critical ones, she said. A follow-up was needed, she said.

Gilchrist said follow-up also was needed at Gourmet Pizza, where she identified 13 violations, one of which was critical, during a routine inspection.

Gilchrist said she found 15 violations, including a critical one, during a routine inspection at Khatta Mitha.

"All violations were corrected by the reinspection," she said.