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4 <br />MASTER PLAN EXECUTIVE OUTLINE <br />WTMP EXPANSION PROPOSAL <br />July 14,1999 <br />Board of Health Adopted July 22, 1999 <br />Como nts <br />1. Education (Draft plan attached) <br />2. Homeowner Incentives and Methods' of ' ' g Financial <br />Impact on Homeowners <br />• Possible low interest loans or grants through a revolving <br />fund for septic system repairs <br />• Exemption or delays from some re-inspections based on <br />proper cbeclding and maintenance of individual systems <br />• Free advanced training for community or homeowners' <br />associations volunteers to be "ambassadors" in wastewater <br />management and " first responder" duties <br />• Possible free water sampling or other services provided at <br />the time of the re-inspections. <br />3. Re-inspections <br />• The option given the most favorable response for re- <br />inspections is to begin in the water quality critical areas and <br />expand outwards to the corresponding watersheds and <br />eventually to the whole county <br />Objectives <br />1. Improve source water quality through protection of both <br />ground waters and surface waters <br />2. Prevent disease transmission <br />3. Optimize septic system lives <br />4. Maintain and preserve septic system repair areas <br />5.. Avoid or delay septic system repairs <br />6. Minimize obstructions to transfers of property due to failing <br />septic systems, especially those with limited or no viable repair <br />options <br />7. Reduce expansion of collection systems through optimizing <br />septic system lives.