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(Continued from Page 1) under health department regulations, Burke continued. If a well is put in at the same time as a septic field, samples must be taken to show that the water supply meets health department standards, he reported. “Will the well have to be grouted?” supervisor Hubert Gilkey asked.

Burke replied that it would. In addition, the health department will have to approve location of the well, he said. The sanitation expert emphasized, however, that the new regulations apply only to wells that are constructed at the same time as septic fields.

“What kind of safeguards do we have against someone putting a well in first (and then coming back later to install a sewage disposal system in order to avoid compliance)?” asked Gilkey.

"That can be done,” Burke acknowledged. “But possibly in the effort to avoid red tape, (the landowner) might get himself into a little problem (with an imporperly located well).” He noted that some counties have local water ordinances which require a permit for well location no matter when the water supply is constructed.

Butke assured the supervisors that 25 to 30 percent of the health department's time is spent “being used as a source of information,” supplying answers to such diverse questions as what are pathogenic bacteria and where to go for zoning approval "The best part” of the health department’s work “deals not with regulations but with sources of information. . .It’s probably the most important part of our work,” the sanitation supervisor said. “I feel personally that there’s overemphasis on regulations right now.”

CMl Defense

Civil defense coordinator Jennings Hobson informed the supervisors that he was resigning from the post, effective next month. Hobson said he didn’t have time for the job and with the county soon to get a central dispatch system, it was an opportunity for a new person to take over. “It's not considered the most important aspect of county