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18 <br />B. Adverse Public Health Conditions <br />An exception to the prohibition of public water and sewer service in <br />interest areas may be made to allow the extension of.iines in the event <br />the Orange County Health Department documents an "adverse public <br />health condition." <br />An adverse public health condition exists where: <br />I . in the case of existing wastewater system(s), it meets all of the <br />following cria: <br />i the wastewater system is failing; <br />4 the wastewater system is documented to be failing <br />by the Orange County Health Department; <br />f there is no on -site repair approvable or <br />recommended by the Orange County Health <br />Department. <br />'fire following terms used in the criteria above mean_ <br />'`ailing, Wastewater System: A wastewater system is failing <br />when sewage or effluent is seeping or discharging to the ground <br />surface- or to surface waters. A permitted, properly - functioning <br />non-discharge wastewater system (e.g., a spray- irigation <br />system) and a permitted, properly- Ruictioning discharge <br />system are not falling wastewater systems. <br />A royable_On -Site Repair: An approvable on-site wastewater <br />system repair that can be completed in a designated :repair area <br />which is approvable under Orange County Health Department <br />regulatory soil/site criteria in effect at the time of the.needed <br />repair. <br />Recommended On-Site Repair_ A recommended on -site repair <br />is one that is not an approvable on-site :repair, but is one that in <br />the best professional judgment of the Orange County health <br />E?eparhnent will reasonably enable the syst 6m to f uaciion <br />properly. A• recommended on-site repair may incorporate <br />engineered design (a design certified by an engineer to <br />overcome all soillsite limitations in the particular Situation), site <br />10 <br />