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Shelley Taub", District No. 12
MISZELLANCEMS RESOLUTION #95199 July 13, 1995
BY: Nancy Dingeldey, District #11; Kay Schmid, District #17; Shelley
Taub, District #12
RE: Human Services Department/Health Division-Amendment to the Oakland
County Sanitary Code, Article II, Section 4.1 (Sandfilters)
To the Oakland County Board of Commissioners
Chairperson, Ladies and Gentlemen:
WHEREAS Intermittent Sand Filter technology has been developed as
an alternative sewage disposal system which, under appropriate
conditions, generates a reduction in the rnntaminarion loading of the
waste stream; and
WHEREAS the Michigan Department of Public Health has determined that
Intermittent Sand Filter technology is an acceptable alternative sewage
disposal technique and had developed recommendations and criteria
regarding the approval and implementation of Intermittent Sand Filters
for single family home, subdivision and site condominium projects in the
state of Michigan; and
WHEREAS it is the intent of the Board of Commissioners to allow for
the utilization of proven alternative technologies, including the use of
Intermittent Sand Filter technology, when deemed acceptable by the
Oakland County Health Division and/or the Oakland County Sanitary Code
Appeal Board.
NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that the Oakland County Board of
Commissioners hereby amends the Oakland County Sanitary Code, Article II,
Section 4.1 as follows:
- The Health Officer or,
when designated, the Administrator of Environmental Health
Services may accept the application of proven alternative
technology of devices
materials, or special construction or installation techniques
acceptable to the Health Division which provide reduction in
the contamination loading of the waste stream. This
technology acceptance must be approved in writing by the
Health Officer or, when designated, the Administrator of
Environmental Health Services and be consistent with the
provisions of both this Article and Article III which governs
the construction and installation standards for on-site sewage
disposal systems.
tion. Chairperson, we move the adoption of the foregoing
Kay( S#Ittid, District No. 17
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