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DRAFT 650 processing effluents, and so until we can talk about what areas are good for that, and 651 identifying those areas, not to say that that needs to be the county's responsibility, not to 652 say that we need to beg the state to do it, but there should be some sort of, I think, 653 conversation in between the two. And that's really where you can't move forward on 654 these systems and talk about the failure points without saying, like, if we don't know the 655 soils and we're not totally sure that these soils are going to take them on, that's the 656 concern, right? And with Fiddlehead, it was a conversation about, that's an unknown. 657 And in specifically that area of the county, it's known that there's not a lot of perc-ing. 658 There's known that you have to have much larger parcels with one building on it in order 659 to be successful. And so again, I'm lacking the jargon and the expertise for sure, but I do 660 know that that is the biggest thing that we can't just state out loud because it's the biggest 661 problem. 662 663 Statler Gilfillen: This may be a little bit of a variance, but I believe the county zoning allows that if you have 664 a 3,000 square foot house on a 3-acre site, you are allowed to build an in-law apartment 665 on your property up to like 1,200, 1,500 square feet, or about half the size. Now, if that 666 house was built 10 years ago with the septic system on it, what are the provisions in this 667 system for adding that in-law apartment to the septic system? Are there any? 668 669 Beth Bronson: Bedrooms. 670 671 Tom Altieri: I'm going to turn to Cy on that one. 672 673 Cy Stober: You need either an existing system permit to verify with environmental health that your 674 individual system can accommodate the additional bedrooms, or you would need to get 675 construction authorization to expand your system to accommodate the new building. 676 677 Statler Gilfillen: So, that is covered? Okay. 678 679 Cy Stober: Oh yeah, yeah. Vigilantly. 680 681 Tom Altieri: So even for a home renovation, if someone were to add a bedroom, they would ensure 682 that not only the drain field, but the septic system, the septic tank were sized 683 appropriately. 684 685 Statler Gilfillen: I went through this about 12 years ago, adding an addition to a 1914 farmhouse, and we 686 put a brand-new septic system in, and it was sized to accommodate an in-law apartment 687 that's never been added. Which may be the reason that that system has been very 688 efficient all these years. 689 690 Charity Kirk: Okay, so off of what Beth was saying and her concern about this, is there any 691 consideration in the land-use plan about trying to develop out any of these nodes so that 692 they can support more of a community system that people then can hook into? So, like 1 693 know where I'm from in California, there was a little town that was very proud that they 694 dealt with their own poop. They didn't necessarily deal with it well, but they did, and so 695 they built around their little private sewer system, and then they paid to kind of do that. 696 So, there was a community utility basically that then people could hook into, but that 697 would require—and they were in the county, so but that would require a certain amount of 698 us being willing to densify certain to allow more of a community system that people could 699 hook into.