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Ravalli County Board of Health asks staff to research law after debate over suspending flood irrigation to pass groundwater monitoring
Summary
Board members discussed whether property owners can temporarily stop flood irrigation to improve septic groundwater monitoring results, and asked staff and counsel to review state case law and DEQ guidance before recommending policy changes.
Members of the Ravalli County Board of Health spent substantial time on June 11 debating whether temporarily suspending flood irrigation on neighboring or monitored parcels can legitimately be used to achieve passing groundwater monitoring results for on‑site sewage systems.
Board members described situations where irrigation was shut off to allow a monitoring pipe to pass and then later restarted, and cited a court case in which…
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