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0J <br />system. He agrees that something needs to be done about conventional systems <br />but that should be addressed at a separate meeting. He has a lot of <br />questions about conventional systems. He prefers to talk only about the <br />alternative systems at this meeting. <br />Commissioner Gordon noted, that from the point of view of the Board of <br />Health, the conventional systems need to be discussed because even though the <br />number of each type of unit is small, the impact is large and that is why <br />the Board of Health did not want to eliminate the conventional systems from <br />the picture. It still affects the soil and it could affect the public <br />health. <br />Chair Carey stated he does not want conventional systems excluded <br />because the Board needs to decide whether and how to include these systems <br />in a monitoring and maintenance plan. The scope of any plan should include <br />conventional systems and their relationship to a monitoring and maintenance <br />program, if any. <br />Commissioner Gordon indicated she still wants to know the scope of this <br />project, the kind of staff time it will involve and the cost which will <br />depend on what the Board includes in the program. <br />Commissioner Insko asked if all the systems can be monitored and <br />maintained satisfactory and if it is legally possible to exclude any systems <br />from the County. <br />Commissioner Willhoit referred to the terminology and classes of systems <br />in the report and asked if this terminology is consistent with the State and <br />the answer was no. A table on page 24 of this report compares the different <br />types of systems. <br />With reference to a minimal program, Commissioners Insko and Gordon <br />questioned what systems the County wants to support and if there are some <br />that the County doesn't want to support, especially those that need a <br />management entity or a public management entity. If there is no management <br />entity or a public management entity, a decision needs to be made as to <br />whether or not to allow them to be in the County. commissioner Insko <br />stressed that the County does not want to go out of their way to encourage <br />something they don't want by putting county dollars into a management entity. <br />The Board may want to determine what systems they want and also what systems <br />the County must have because DEM permits them. <br />Geoffrey Gledhill indicated that the method that would be most effective <br />would be to decide on a case by case basis and to provide a method that <br />requires the applicant to demonstrate by evidence that the system would work. <br />Then the Board would have to make findings of fact that the system would <br />work. If all the experts uniformly say the system will work, then the answer <br />is no. However, if there are experts who question whether a particular <br />system would work, either because the technology is flawed or because the <br />conditions are not appropriate for that technology on that site, then there <br />would be a factual question about which the Board would make a decision. He <br />noted that there are three possibilities used in a regulatory process. The <br />