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4 proposal beginning July 1, 1992 for a review every five years. On the low pressure systems, there is a management concern, but no management entity requirement. The County can put in place a management requirement. This includes all pump conventional systems. For the LPP systems, it is proposed that the review would be done once every three years with maintenance twice a year. Dan Reimer pointed out that in this classification, the County has combined type 3 and 4 of the State categories which have slightly different requirements. Type three (3) has a monitoring requirement but not a maintenance entity requirement. Type four (4) the low pressure pipe system has both a monitoring and public management entity requirement in the new State regulations. INDIVIDUAL SPRAY IRRIGATION AND DISCHARGING SYSTEMS - CLASS III This includes type 5 (sand filter discharge) The Department of Health does not regulate these systems. The discharge systems are DEM systems. These are repermitted every five years. The Board may want to consider entering into an agreement with DEM for the County to take over the operational requirements for these types of systems. Commissioner Insko questioned whether the county should be concerned about whether or not DEM is doing an adequate job monitoring these systems. Also, should the County be concerned that the DEM management requirements are adequate. She understands the problem is that these systems are not adequately being monitored. Dr. Bob Rubin explained that when an operator sends a report into DEM, it is called a Daily Monitoring Report (DMR). On that DMR they list their monitoring results for each month. After looking at several systems over the last year, the interesting thing was that for a couple of the systems, the monitoring result was the same every single month. If the County had adequate monitoring, they could in turn put pressure on the State for enforcement. Dr. Rubin explained that with a memorandum of understanding with DEM where all the responsibilities are spelled out, the County can initiate enforcement action faster than without such an agreement. Dan Reimer stated that the sooner the County can initiate the enforcement action, the less the consequences of failure will be a problem for the citizens. The only way to keep this system out of the County would be by zoning restrictions. John Link stated that before a system is eliminated categorically, the staff would determine the cost of carrying out whatever monitoring or management function would be necessary to insure that the system is functioning properly. The owner of the system could be given an opportunity to pay for all the costs of monitoring and maintaining that system before eliminating any systems. PRIVATE CLUSTER SYSTEM - CLASS IV - (DEH Type 6) If this is a sandfilter or greater than 3,000 gpd,it is proposed that a review would be done every year by the Health Department. If it is a system with package treatment, mechanical or biological chemical pretreatment or wastewater recycled system,it would be reviewed every six months. This can be a private management entity with a certified operator. The maintenance frequency may be anywhere from once a month to once a day depending on the size of the system.