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big P �ountp °� 0 Mrang Healt4 arty Head {Q D Jonathan Klein, MD, Chair Rosemary L. Summers, MPH, DrPH Janet Southerland, DDS , vice-chair 014 LJ Orange County Board of Health Health Director Orange County Board of Health N«+hi�.. hwkHwhl � Environmental Health Division Ron Holdway, Division Director 30&C Revere Road , P. O. Box 8181 Phone: (919) 732.8181 , x2360 FAX: (919) 644-3006 Hillsborough , NC 27278 Betty Borland Barbara Patterson Chapel Hill Durham Mebane �� r�r . cu . i . ur . nr . 0 ;irr,� rn�e/em filth/ Administrative Assistant Office Assistant (919) 968.4501 (919) 6887331 (919) 22?-2031 June 26 , 2000 MEMORANDUM TO : David Stancil , Director, Orange County Environment and Resources Conservation Department FROM : Ron Holdway IPA RE : Composting Toilets/Graywater Systems CC : Rosie Summers Tom Konsler Susan Mellott As you know, Marc Marcopolos approached the Commission for the Environment on June 12 seeking support for a " pilot project on the use of composting toilets . " We also heard that night that he wanted to incorporate the use of graywater discharge , possibly surface irrigation, with the use of the composting toilets and thereby be granted a reduction in the size of the septic system for such situations or be exempt from the necessity of a septic system altogether . Mr . Marcopolos also correctly related to your board that , while the use of composting toilets is legal and permissible in North Carolina, there is no provision for reducing the size of the septic system for a residence when they are installed and there is no allowance within the state wastewater rules to allow graywater discharges . By way of this memo , I, wanted to formally advise you and thus your board and Mr . Marcopolos of what avenues need to be pursued in order to proceed with such a proposal . In no way do I want to be presumptuous in addressing this matter, but I feel that it is in yours and Mr . Marcopolos ' best interest to know which agencies , both state and local, are involved in the siting , design and permitting of on- site wastewater systems . It is important to understand that on- site wastewater systems ( septic tanks and other methods) are sited and permitted by rules promulgated by the N . C . Commission for Health Services and those rules are administered by local health departments under guidance from a state office . In addition, local boards of health can adopt more stringent rules on top of the state framework and this is the case here in Orange County . Therefore , both state and local rules apply to on- site wastewater systems and composting toilets are allowable in both the current frameworks , but, as mentioned above , there is no reduction granted in the septic system size when they are installed . Jim Brown , RS Perry Burns , RS Alan Clapp , RS , LSS Greg Grimes, RS Tom Konsler, RS David Hecht, RS Ron Hedrick, RS Jan Jackson , RS Wendy Thigpen , RS EH Specialist EH Specialist Soil Scientist EH Program Specialist EH Supervisor EH Specialist EH Specialist EH Specialist EH Specialist