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"You’re in power and we look to you for help. The board was scheduled to adjourn at 9:30 p.m., and by 9 p.m., had touched on four of the 16 discussion items on the agenda. Board members began bickering in the middle of the discussion, and took a five-minute recess around 8:50 p.m., even though residents were lined up at the podium to speak. Several residents were in the audience to complain again about school buses idling in their neighborhood. "I'm really unhappy that I find myself in the middle of this," Eastridge told the board, before he was able to talk about the wells. The board continued what has been regular bickering, arguing at the outset of the meeting over whether to allow Eastridge time to speak, and whether the chairwoman emailed him. The first well provides about 70 gallons per minute. Eastridge said Thorndike is looking for 120 gallons per minute to irrigate the Cirrus Apartments landscaping. The board also approved the drilling of a second well at the site. Test results also have to be sent to the town at the beginning and the end of each watering season under the approval. “Everything is done, we’ve just been waiting (for board approval),” Eastridge said. Eastridge said the system could be turned on by Thursday. The board Tuesday approved using the first well for irrigation, but asked Eastridge for test results within 30 days of the system’s first use. The chloroform initially found, he said, was potentially from flushing the system with town water, which Eastridge said is chlorinated. The highest level of manganese recorded in the testing was. “A child would have to drink all of their water from our irrigation system, and drink twice as much as they normally would over their lifetime in order to be at their limit,” Thorndike associate partner David Eastridge said. Board members asked a representative from Thorndike Development, the company working on the project, to research the issue further and return. Initial test results showed high levels of chloroform in the first well drilled at Cirrus Apartments, triggering two further tests, which showed a negligible amount of the chemical, but some manganese. 15 meeting, “and this apartment complex, I’m sure, will have children.” “The exposure of manganese, longtime exposure, is difficult to digest for me in terms of the health of the children,” board member Koduvayur Narayana said at the board’s Aug. 135, after concerns over manganese delayed the vote at the board’s last meeting. ASHLAND – The Board of Health on Tuesday approved two irrigation wells for an apartment complex off Rte.