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Commission reviews Chapter 5 water-quality text, hears staff on groundwater, reservoirs and rainwater harvesting
Summary
At the Jan. 16 meeting the Northumberland County Planning Commission reviewed proposed Chapter 5 edits to the comprehensive plan (water quality protection), discussed groundwater declines, septage disposal challenges, and options including reservoirs, regional septage solutions, rainwater harvesting and treated-wastewater injection (SWIFT).
The Northumberland County Planning Commission spent a portion of its Jan. 16 meeting reviewing proposed revisions to Chapter 5 of the county comprehensive plan, the chapter addressing water quality protection and water-supply management.
Planning staff said much of the chapter reflects Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) boilerplate language required to meet state water-quality criteria and that suggested edits from Commissioner John Cost were largely grammatical. Commissioners and staff discussed changing mandatory wording (“shall”) in two policy statements to the more discretionary “should” unless a statutory requirement exists,…
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