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B. EXCEPTIONS TO REPAIR AREA REQUIREMENTS In order for an improvements permit to be issued by Environmental Health, repair area adequate to install a replacement system in the event of failure of the initial system is generally required. If sufficient repair area is not available within the boundaries of the lot, then an easement may be needed to reserve a repair area on adjacent property. Section.1945 of"Laws and Rules for Sanitary Sewage Collection,Treatment,and Disposal 15 NCAC As Amended by the Orange County Board of Health (also referred to as"Rules of Sewage Disposal for Orange County") states the following: "(c) The repair area requirement shall not apply to a lot or tract of land: (1) which is specifically described in a document on file with the local health department on July 1, 1982, or which is specifically described in a recorded deed or recorded plat on January 1, 1983; and (2) which is of insufficient size to satisfy the repair requirement ... as determined by the local health department; and (3) on which a ground absorption sewage treatment and disposal system with a design daily flow of: (A) no more than 480 gallons is to be installed; or (B) more than 480 gallons is to be installed if application for an improvements permit is received by the local health department on or before April 1, 1983. (d) Although a lot or tract of land is exempted under paragraph (c)from the repair area requirement , the maximum feasible area, as determined by the local health department, shall be allocated for repair area." C. STREAM CLASSIFICATION Planning The Orange County Zoning Ordinance requires that septic systems be located at least 300 feet from a reservoir, and at least 100 feet from a perennial or intermittent stream within a protected watershed. Perennial and intermittent streams are identified by a solid or dotted blue line on the USGS quadrangle maps. Environmental Health The Rules of Sewage Disposal for Orange County require a 100-foot setback for septic systems adjacent to classified reservoirs and adjacent to streams classified as WS-I, and a 50-foot setback adjacent to streams in which flow for at least 50% of the year. Whether or not a particular stream flows at least 50% of the year is determined on a case by case basis in the field. D. SETBACKS AND SEPARATIONS Septic systems must be located at least 15 feet from a structure. Wells are required to be at least 100 feet from any part of a septic system and 40 feet from property lines.