HomeMy WebLinkAboutResolutions - 1984.04.12 - 15566April 12, 1984
REPORT
Miscellaneous Resolution #84091
By: Health and Human Resources Committee -
Marilynn E. Gosling, Chairperson
In re: GROUNDWATER QUALITY
To the Oakland County Board of Commissioners
Mr. Chairperson, Ladies and Gentlemen:
The Health and Human Resources Committee, having reviewed
Miscellaneous Resolution #84091, Groundwater Quality, reports with
the recommendation that said resolution be adopted with an amendment
stating that a copy of the resolution be sent to the Water Resources
Commission.
Mr. Chairperson, I move the acceptance of the foregoing
report.
HEALTH AND HUMAN RESOURCES
COMMITTEE
Miscellaneous Resolution 84091 March 22, 1984
BY: Dr. G. William Caddell .
IN RE: GROUNDWATER QUALITY
TO THE OAKLAND COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS
WHEREAS, the Oakland County Health DivisiOn has endeavored to study the impact
of sewage disposal from a proposed hospital in Commerce Township; and
WHEREAS, the Health Division does not feel that sufficient plans were available
to make an appropriate decision on the suitability of allowing 100,000 gallons of
effluent to be discharged over an unprotected aquifer; and
WHEREAS, the Michigan State Water Resources Commission saw fit to issue the
permit without conditions attached to it to assure that adequate documentation of
the system would be available through the design phase; and
WHEREAS, the Water Resources Commission ignored the request of the Oakland
County Health Division to deny a Discharge Permit until additional information
relating to the safety and operation of the proposed sewage disposal system was
available; and
WHEREAS, the Water Resources Commission ignored the Charter Township of
Commerce request to append conditions to the Discharge Permit which would help
assure safe operation of the proposed sewage treatment facility; and
WHEREAS, it is the responsibility of the County to help assure the quality
and safety of the groundwaters that are a resource for drinking and human use.
NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that the Oakland County Board of Commissioners
go on record as opposing the issuance of the Discharge Permit prematurely, and
urges the Health Division to use whatever means available, voluntary or otherwise,
to work with the hospital authority, the State.governmental agencies involved and
the Charter Township of Commerce to take whatever Steps are necessary to protect
the groundwater from being contaminated as a result of effluent from the proposed
hospital.
Mr. Chairperson, I move the adoption of the foregoing resolution.
Daniel
'REE1Y APPROVE THE FOREdOING RESOLUTION
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Date T murij
12th day of April 1984
ALLEN
Counify Clerk/Register of Deeds
#84091 April 12, 1984
Moved by Gosling supported by Fortino the report be accepted.
A sufficient majority having voted therefor, the motion carried.
Moved by Gosling supnorted by Caddell the resolution be amended by stating
that a cony of the resolution be sent to the Water Resources Commission.
A sufficient majority having voted therefor, the amendment carried.
Moved by Gosling supported by Caddell the resolution be adopted.
AYES: Pernick, Price, Rewold, Wilcox, Aaron, Caddell, Calandro, Doyon,
Fortino, Gosling, Hobart, Jackson, R. Kuhn, Law, McConnell, McDonald, McPherson,
Moffitt, Moore, Nelson, Page. (21)
NAYS: Lanni, Perinoff. (2)
A sufficient majority having voted therefor, the resolution was adopted.
STATE OF MICHIGAN)
COUNTY OF OAKLAND)
I, Lynn D. Alien, Clerk of the County of Oakland and having a seal,
do hereby certify that I have compared the annexed copy of
Miscellaneous Resolution adooted by the Oakland County Board of Commissioners
at their meeting held on April 12, 1984
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
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