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Rappahannock County Health Department, is aware of the general location of systems permitted in the county, and also of others that have had reason to be located, e.g., they required repair and/or certification for a real estate transaction.
Record keeping and compliance with permitting requirements has improved a great deal over the last 25 years or so. Prior to that, things were a little sketchy, as permits were more generic, if they were applied for at all.
For the past six years the Health Department has routinely done an "as built" sketch of the location of the septic tank and distribution box on all new systems.
This is helpful down the road if anyone needs to locate these items, either for maintenance, or if they are planning on expanding either the system or the house or both.
The older the system, the less helpful our records are likely to be, primarily because all we have on systems older than six years are permits that were drawn before the work was done.
Operation and Maintenance; The regulatoiy agency periodically provides owners with operation and maintenance information.
Comment: The Rappahannock County Health Department provides information at the time a septic systems is constructed and/or certified, and of course, anytime anyone asks.
The above summarizes the current situation in Rappahannock County on wastewater treatment management of conventional septic systems.
Another question at the start was whether we should worry about anything. A universal concern is that failed or failing septic systems have not
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