ISANTI COUNTY
SUBSURFACE SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM (SSTS) ORDINANCE SUMMARY
An ordinance authorizing and providing for sewage treatment and soil dispersal in unsewered areas of the county adopting the following provisions:
1.) Adopts by reference the 2011 Minnesota Rules, Chapters 7080 through 7083 in their entirety.
2.) Requires a construction permit for construction, installation, modification or replacement of a SSTS.
3.) Requires a management plan for all new or replacement SSTS at the time of construction permit application.
4.) Requires all persons engaging in site evaluation, inspection, design, installation, construction, alteration, extension, repair, maintenance, or pumping of SSTS to be have an appropriate and valid licensed issued by the MPCA unless exempted in Minnesota Rule 7083.0700 Subp. A to Subp. I.
5.) Requires that a building intended for habitation to be served by a waste water treatment system that disposed of the wastewater in a matter that complies with the provisions of the Ordinance.
6.) Requires compliance inspections by a licensed inspection business or qualified employee: whenever a permit or variance is applied for in the shoreland areas of the county under the Isanti County Shoreland Management Ordinance, for all new SSTS construction or replacement, and prior to the sale of a property which is required to be serviced by a SSTS.
7.) Requires all SSTS that are failing to protect the groundwater to be upgraded, repaired, replaced, or abandoned within 10 months of their discovery and receipt of Notice of Noncompliance.
8.) Requires all SSTS that an imminent threat to public health or safety to be upgraded, repaired, replaced, or abandoned within 30 days of their discovery and receipt of Notice of Noncompliance.
9.) Requires the design flow for all new and replacement systems to be designed for class 1 buildings only.
10.) Requires an operation permit for the owners of Type IV, V, mid-sized treatment systems (design flow over 5,000 gallons, but less than 10,000 gallons per day), or any other system that requires operation oversight.
11.) Requires the abandonment of SSTS with no future intent of use.
12.) Requires lots created after January 23, 1996 to have a minimum of two soil treatment and dispersal areas at the time of lot creation.
13.) Allows holding tanks in certain applications.
14.) Allows variance requests from the standards specified in the ordinance.
Passed and approved this 5th day of February, 2014, by the Isanti County Board of Commissioners.
Mike Warring, Chair, Isanti County Board of Commissioners
A full text document of the ordinance is available at the Isanti County Zoning Department, 555 18th Avenue Southwest, Cambridge, MN 55008.
Published in the
Isanti County News
February 19, 2014
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