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Garfield County weighs returning water-hauling oversight to counties amid liability concerns
Summary
County commissioners discussed a regional push to shift water-hauling oversight from the Board of Health to individual counties; staff warned counties would assume testing and liability responsibilities, prompting consideration of an ordinance to prohibit hauling in populated areas.
Garfield County commissioners spent a lengthy portion of their Feb. 9 meeting discussing a regional proposal to return authority over commercial water hauling from the Southwest Board of Health to individual counties.
Planning and public-health staff told the board that under the proposed change, counties — not the health department — would be responsible for confirming the source of hauled water and for each instance of quality testing. "It's impossible," a county staff member said of the workload involved in testing frequent haulers serving hundreds of cabins,…
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