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22 <br />ORANGE COUNTY HEALTH DEPARTMENT <br />.. ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH DIVISION <br />WTMP EXPANSION CO]VIl UME MEETINGS <br />September 3% 1998 <br />October 21, 1998 <br />November 3,1998 <br />"In our zeal to promote onsite and duster systems as a more. cost-effective <br />method of wastewater management in small communities, we have <br />focused too much on technologies. . Our interest in technologies is <br />performance and cost, while the potential user's interest is in service. To <br />gain the attention of potential users, we have often denigrated central <br />sewerage in favor of decentralized treatment systeme This is a mistaken <br />approach because onske and duster systems are not perceived by the <br />public as providing equal service... What is good about central <br />sewerage-cen&d management-is what is bad about onsite system& .. . <br />When we are able to show that onsite systems can be designed and <br />operated over extended planning periods to meet water quality and public <br />health objectives, onske technologies will gain stature equal to <br />conventional sewerage This will be achieved only through centralized <br />management. While decentralization of treatment is the outcome <br />centralization of management must be the approach. <br />Richard J. Otis, P.F. <br />Y.P., Ayres Associates, Madison , WI <br />1998 ASAE Onsite Conference <br />SUMMARY <br />On Septemmber 30, 1998, the ad-hoc WTMP Expansion Committee met at the <br />Sow Human Services Building in its first session to forge details for the <br />proposal. In attendance were Brenda Crowder-Gaines and Rick M ins w of the <br />Orange County Board of Health, Margaret Brown of the Orange County Board of <br />Commissioners, Pat Davis and Barry Jacobs of the OWASA Board, John Lank and <br />Paul Thames of the Orange County Manager's office, Gene Bell of the Orange <br />County Planning'Department, Ed Kerwin of the OWASA A4 and Rosie <br />Summers, Ron Holdway, Tom Konsler and Cornelia Ramsey of the Orange <br />County Health Department. A work group also met on October 21 to hither <br />discuss details of the expansion. A final meeting of the full committee met on <br />November 3 and finalized some of the details for the proposal. <br />perry 1 Mr 11