Health staff recommend limited property‑line setback reductions for septic systems
Elbert County public health staff told commissioners they will recommend allowing limited reductions to the state’s 10‑foot septic property‑line setback in constrained cases, while keeping neighbor‑well protections and formalizing criteria for variances before submitting rules for public review.
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Marissa Ginger, Elbert County’s environmental health specialist, told the board at a Feb. 11 work study that the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment’s updated on‑site wastewater treatment system (OWTS) rules allow counties to opt in or out of several optional provisions and that the county must pick which options to send to the state for review.
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