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Committee backs amended resolution asking state to review 3-year septic maintenance requirement; debate continues over sale of county maintenance lists
Summary
After discussion of the county's maintenance lists and how they are sold and used by private pumpers, the committee approved an amended resolution urging the state to reassess the required three‑year maintenance schedule for private wastewater systems; staff described program details and fees and fielded open-records questions.
The Washington County Land Use and Planning Committee voted May 15 to approve an amended resolution asking the state to review the three‑year maintenance requirement for on‑site wastewater systems and related state rules.
The discussion followed a staff presentation that described the county's maintenance-tracking program and the two lists the county generates for market customers: a monthly maintenance list (sold for $100 per year) and a new-permit list (sold for $35). Staff said Washington County's database contains more than 21,000 on‑site systems — including holding tanks, mounds, conventional septic systems and ATUs — that the…
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