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L&W Memorandum to Boards Mazch 13, 2001 Page 3 14 Environmental health staff developed a rating scheme to assess relative risk to all of the current mobile home parks in the county. This rating scheme. classifies mobile home parks into three tiers of "risk," low, medium, and high (attached). We estimate that there aze 20 parks in the high risk category. Staff is in the process of refining this rating scheme. These pazks should be targeted for immediate educational efforts to residents on water conservation and septic system maintenance. In addition, they should be monitored by environmental health staff far signs of failure and for additional measures that owners might be able to take to reduce the load on these septic systems. The medium risk parks should also be targeted for educational efforts to lengthen the life of the systems themselves. Each of the high and medium risk parks should be thoroughly assessed for possible remedies; including on-site repair options and possible public water and sewer connection. Possibilities for low cost funding strategies should also be thoroughly explored and pursued. It has become appazent during the work group meetings that there is a need for tazgeted housing relocation services for tenants forced to move due to public health issues. This need will be referred to the Continuum of Care Committee for further discussion in order to develop a long- term strategy. The health department will have an MPA intern working with environmental health this spring and summer to research and write grants to develop aloes-cost revolving loan fund for septic system repairs. This should be one tool that we currently do not have for situations like this. If you have any questions or comments, please feel free to contact me. Cc: John Link Ron Holdway Tara Fikes Annette Moore Harmony Whalen