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POLICY FOR INSERTION INTO THE POLICY MANUAL <br />• MEETING DATE: March 15, 1988 NUMBER: P:0330 <br />EFFECTIVE DATE: March 15, 1988 REVISIONS: <br />POLICY: <br />SEPTIC TANK NITRIFICATION FIELDS--DELINEATION ON <br />PRELIMINARY/FINAL SUBDIVISION PLATS <br />To consider the policy question regarding the delineation of <br />primary and back-up nitrification fields on preliminary and <br />final subdivision plats. <br />That at a recent agenda review meeting, two subdivisions, <br />Albert Reaves Estates and James Mark Vine, were withheld from <br />the Commissioners consideration, pending the collection of <br />information regarding the delineation of primary and back-up <br />nitrification fields on subdivision plats. The issue emerged <br />from a recommendation by OWASA that the fields be denoted on <br />such plats. <br />That a decision to require such notations on subdivision <br />plats is a question of policy. Preliminary information <br />obtained from Environmental Health personnel indicated that <br />it is possible to denote primary and back-up nitrification <br />fields on preliminary and final subdivision plats but at a <br />greater cost to both the applicant and the Health Department. <br />RECOMMENDATIONS: <br />The Administration recommends further assessment of the costs <br />involved in a policy which requires delineation of primary <br />and back-up nitrification fields on subdivision plats. <br />Until further assessment of the costs required for such a <br />policy is determined, the Administration recommends that <br />delineation of primary and back-up nitrification fields on <br />subdivision plats, preliminary and final, not be required. <br />• <br />