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zz ORANGE COUNTY HEALTH DEPARTMENT . ENVIItONMENTAL HEALTH DIVISION WTMP EXPANSION CONIlVIITTEE MEETINGS September 30;1998 • October 21,1998 November 3,1998 "In our zeal to promote onsite and cluster systems as a more. cost e, fJective method of wastewater management in small communities, we have focused too much on technologies. • Our interest in technologies is performance and cost, while .the potential user's interest is in service. To gain the attention of potential users, we have often denigrated central sewerage in favor of decentralized treatment systems. This is a mistaken approach. because onsite and cluster systems are not perceived by the public as providing equal service.... What is good about central sewerage---central inanagemer~is ,what is bad about onsite systems... , When we are able to show that onsite systems can be designed and operated over extended planning periods to meet water quality and public health objectives, onsite technologies will gain stature equal to conventional sewerage. This will be achieved only through centralized management While decentralization of treatment is the outcome, centralization of management must be the approach. " • Richard J. Otis, P.E. Y.P., Ayres Associates, Madison , WI 1998 ASAE Onsite Conference SUMhLARY On September 30, 1998, the ad hoc WTMP Expansion Committee met at the Southern Human Services Building in its first session to forge details for the proposal. In attendance were Brenda Crowder-Gaines and Rick Mazinshaw of the Orange County Board of Health, Margaret Brown of the Orange County Board of Conunissioners, Pat Davis and Barry Jacobs of the OWASA Board, John Link and Paul Thames of the Orange County Manager's office, Gene Bell of the Orange County Planning'Department, Ed Kerwin of the OWASA staff and Rosie Summers, Ran Holdway, Tom Konsler and Cornelia Ramsey of the Orange County Health Department. A work group also met on October 21 to further discuss details of the expansion. A final meeting of the full cammittee met on November 3 and finalized some of the details for the proposal.