The Martha s Vineyard Times
Town officials: No cover up, no collusion
Sewer advisory committee delves into Mansion House; increase in fees coming.
Select board member Jeff Kristal, shown here in a 2018 meeting, responded to a Times story during a sewer advisory board Zoom Thursday night.
The Mansion House met its deadline to install a leaching field, and there was no attempt to cover up the hotel’s illegal discharge of groundwater into the town’s wastewater treatment plant, Tisbury officials said during a sewer advisory board meeting Thursday.
The officials select board members Jeff Kristal and Jim Rogers, as well as town administrator Jay Grande were responding to a Times story that detailed public records and interviews with the former wastewater superintendent David Thompson, who blew the whistle on the illegal discharge. Thompson was fired within two months of his discovery, told he had not met the terms of his probationary period. Former select board