UPDATE ON FUTURE OF SEPTIC SYSTEMS IN OHIO

I'm sharing correspondance I received from the Ohio Department of Health in regard to clarifying how the new laws will impact neighborhoods like ours:

Ms. Saul,








I enjoyed speaking with you last week concerning your neighborhood in Hamilton County . It is my understanding that the community has been identified by Hamilton County Public Health and the local sewer district as a priority area for sanitary sewers due to concerns with the large number of discharging household sewage treatment systems and poor surface water quality in the area. You asked in your June 5, 2011 email (copied below this correspondence for your convenience, if a Sewage Treatment Systems (STS) program staff member would be available to attend a neighborhood meeting in June or July of this year to address questions concerning the existing household sewage treatment systems in the area and how future rule changes in the STS program may affect the situation.







Unfortunately, I have been informed that we are unable to commit to attending the meeting at this time. I am more than happy to address specific questions by email or telephone. Please feel free to forward specific questions from the neighborhood meeting or to circulate my contact information if members of the community feel more comfortable addressing their questions and concerns to me directly. You should also feel free to contact Hamilton County Public Health with any questions concerning the rule changes and rule development process. Hamilton County Public Health is a member of the Ohio Department of Health’s STS Rule Advisory Committee. Tim Ingrim and Chris Griffith, with that agency, are very active in the rule development process.







Their contact information is:



Hamilton County Public Health



250 William Howard Taft, 2nd Floor



Cincinnati, OH 45219



513.946.7800





I look forward to working with you and your neighbors,







Nathan Johnson, RS



Residential Water and Sewage Program

Bureau of Environmental Health



Ohio Department of Health



246 North High Street



Columbus, OH 43215



(614) 644-7181

(614) 466-4556 (fax)



nathan.johnson@odh.ohio.gov