SSTS must be designed and installed to comply with the following minimum setback distances measured in feet:
Feature | Tank(s)/ Sealed Privy | Soil Treatment and Dispersal Area/ Unsealed Privy | Building Sewer or Supply Pipes |
Feature | Tank(s)/ Sealed Privy | Soil Treatment and Dispersal Area/ Unsealed Privy | Building Sewer or Supply Pipes |
Private, single family water supply well with less than 50 feet of casing and not encountering 10 feet of impervious material.1 | 50 | 100 | 50 |
Any other private, single family water supply well or buried water suction pipe.2 | 50 | 50 | 50 |
Buried pipe distributing water under pressure.3 | 10 | 10 | 10 |
Structure(s)4 | 10 | 20 | - |
Property lines and road right-of-ways.4 | 10 | 10 Above grade systems will be measured from the toe of the slope.5 | |
Ordinary high watermark of natural environmental lakes.6 | 150 | 150 | - |
Ordinary high watermark of recreational development lakes and protected water courses.6 | 75 | 75 | - |
Ordinary high watermark of general development lakes.6 | 50 | 50 | - |
Swimming pool. | 10 | 10 | - |
Slopes of 20% or greater. | 20 | 20 | - |
Bluff. (Average grade 25% slope and has a 25' rise in elevation.) | 50 | 50 | |
Interceptor drains. | - | 10 (20 feet in Shoreland Areas.) | - |
1 (Minn. Rules Chapter 7080.1710, item B and Minn. Rules Chapter 4725)
2 (Minn. Rules Chapters 4725 and 4714)
3 (Minn. Rules Chapter 4714)
4 (Minn. Rules Chapter 7080.2150 Table VII)
5 (When lot size prohibits meeting the required ten-foot setback from the toe of the slope, the ten-foot setback may be measured from the absorption area, with Department approval. A survey provided by the property owner, at the property owner’s expense, may also be required by the Department.)
6 (Shoreland Management Act and Minn. Rules Chapters 6105 and 6120)
(Ord. 67-2010, passed 5-17-11; Am. Ord. 90-2018, passed 12-18-18)