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from the system. The authority will "gn e appropriate consideration to written requests from any property owner in the service area for his or her property to be removed from planned service.” The requests should be submitted by September 1 and should include written health department certification that the properties are served by properly constructed septic systems that are operating in compliance with State Health Department regulations.
The usefulness of a health department certification was questioned by Core. “If they don’t see little boats running along the top of the ground, they're going to say it’s okay,” Gore said. Authority member James White said that the authority’s criteria for a properly operating septic system would go beyond health department criteria.
If he (the health department inspector) will not certify that it (a septic system) will not add to the ground water pollution in the service area, and he won’t put his professional name on that, then we’re going to send it upstairs,” White said.
White said that people who request and are granted an exemption should understand that, if their septic system develops problems in the future, they will have to pay all hook-up charges at that time. Gerhart said that under the present contract, the total hook-up cost is averaging - $8,000. “That’s under the present contract
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