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Committee delays resolution urging state review of three-year on-site system pumping requirement
Summary
After an extended staff presentation and member discussion, Washington County’s committee postponed consideration of an advisory resolution asking the state to reexamine the three-year septic pumping/inspection requirement.
Washington County’s Land Use and Planning Committee postponed action on an advisory resolution that would ask state officials to review the statutory three-year maintenance (pumping/inspection) requirement for private on-site wastewater treatment systems.
Brett Scherrer, introduced to the committee as the county’s interim assistant natural resources director, presented background on the maintenance program and cited Wisconsin statute 145.205(b) (as presented in his slides) which, he said, requires pumping or inspection at least once every three years unless an alternative…
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