HomeMy WebLinkAboutResolutions - 1985.06.27 - 11162Miscellaneous Resolution # 85195 June 27, 1985
BY: HEALTH AND HUMAN RESOURCES COMMITTEE—Nancy McConnell, Chairperson
In Re: DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC WORKS--WALNUT LAKE NOTIFICATION PLAN
To the Oakland County Board of Commissioners
Mr. Chairperson, Ladies, and Gentlemen:
WHEREAS according to Act 368, P. A. 1978, Section 2433, "A local
health department shall continually and diligently endeavor to prevent disease,
prolong life, and promote the public health , . . including prevention and
control of environmental health hazards"; and
WHEREAS according to Act 368, P. A. 1978, Section 12752, "Public
sanitary sewer systems are essential to the health, safety, and welfare of
the people of the state"; and
WHEREAS the Department of Public Works has responsibility for the
construction, maintenance, and monitoring of the public sanitary sewer system
in Oakland County; and
WHEREAS funds have been made available in the operating budget of
the Evergreen-Farmington Sewage Disposal System; and
WHEREAS the Board of Commissioners is desirous of establishing an
expeditious notification procedure in the event of a sewage spill at the Walnut
Lake sewage lift station,
NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that notification of a sewage spill '
at the Walnut Lake sewage lift station will be conducted as follows;
1. The Department of Public Works shall notify the Health Division
when a sewage spill occurs at the Walnut Lake sewage lift station
within 15 minutes of their discovering it.
2. If a spill is discovered between the hours of 8:30 a.m. and 5:00 p.m.,
Monday through Friday, the Department of Public Works shall
notify Environmental Health Services of the Oakland County Health
Division at 858-1312.
3. The Oakland County Health Division will notify the Township Supervisor
and the Presidents of the ten subdivision associations or their
representatives.
4. The Presidents of the subdivision associations or their representatives
shall notify the residents by raising a signaling device to the
top of the associations' flagpoles.
5. If a spill is discovered during nonworking hours, the Department
of Public Works shall notify the Oakland County Safety Division
at 858-0931. The Safety Division will immediately notify the Health
Division through established procedures.
6. The Safety Division will also notify the Presidents of the ten subdivision
associations or their representatives, and the Health Division will
notify the Township Police Department.
7. Signs will be posted immediately on the lake front and roadside
of the spill areas
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that Oakland County recommends the initial
purchase of the signaling devices, the total cost of which is $300, with replacement
being the responsibility of the associations.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Health Division will maintain a
current list of the Walnut Lake Association& Presidents or their representatives
for itself and the Safety Division as provided by the Township..
Mr. Chairperson, on behalf of the Health and Human Resources Committee,
I move the adoption of the foregoing resolution.
Health and /Human Resources Committee
#85195 June 27, 1985
Moved by McConnell supported by Skarritt the resolution be adopted.
Moved by Law supported by Moffitt the resolution be amended as follows:
In the NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED paragraph under items #3 and #6
insert "West Bloomfield" before "Township"
Clarify item #7 by adding ", under the directIon of the Oakland County
Health Department"':
in the second c2nd) BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED paragraph add "West Bloomfield"
before the word "Township".
A sufficient majority having voted therefor, the amendments carried.
Vote on Resolution as amended:
AYES: Aaron, Caddell, Calandro, Doyon, Fortino, Gosling, Hassberger, Hobart,
R. Kuhn, S. Kuhn, Lanni, Law, McConnell, McDonald, McPherson, Moffitt, Moore, Nelson,
Olsen, Perinoff, Pernick, Rewold, Skarritt, Webb, Wilcox (25)
NAYS: None. (0)
A sufficient majority having voted therefore, the resolution, as amended,
was adopted.
STATE OF MICHIGAN)
COUNTY OF OAKLAND)
I, Lynn D. Allen, Clerk of the County of Oakland and having a seal,
do hereby certify that I have compared the annexed copy of the attached
Miscellaneous Resolution adopted by the Oakland County Board of Commissioners r
at their meeting held on June 27, 1985
with the orginial record thereof now remaining in my office, and
that it is a true and correct transcript therefrom, and of the
whole thereof.
In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the
seal of said County at Pontiac, Michigan
this 27th day of All June 19 85
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County Clerk/Register of Deeds