Jefferson County reviews Teton Heights plat after DEQ acceptance of septic/well studies

Jefferson County commissioners and staff met with representatives of the Teton Heights development to discuss whether recorded plat language and a health-department sanitary restriction prevent issuance of septic permits and use of individual or shared wells.

The discussion followed two updated natural-resource (NP) studies accepted by the county and a DEQ letter affirming the studies’ conclusions. County staff and the health district said the original sanitary restriction on the recorded plat was written around an expectation of a public water system and, as written, requires the plat language to be changed before the health district will issue septic permits that rely on individual or shared wells.

County and public-health staff described the options under consideration: (1) record an amended plat or minor notational change to the owner’s certificate and signature block so the plat explicitly allows the proposed well/septic layout; (2) prepare a replat (amended subdivision) to…