This chapter is adopted for the following purposes:
(A) To protect the public health, safety, and general welfare by the discharge of adequately treated sewage to the groundwater via the proper location, design, installation, use, and maintenance of individual subsurface sewage treatment systems (ISTS) and midsized subsurface sewage treatment systems (MSTS).
(B) These environmental protection standards shall be adopted county wide and administered and enforced by the Department or local units of government as directed by Minn. Rules Chapter 7082, and M.S. § 115.55.
(C) This chapter does not regulate systems that do not receive sewage as defined in this chapter. If systems receive both sewage and nonsewage, the requirements of this chapter apply, plus any additional requirements governing the nonsewage portion of the wastewater.
(D) To provide prescriptive design, construction, and operational standards to reasonably protect surface water and groundwater and promote public health, safety, and general welfare.
(E) To protect individual water supply wells of the community from contamination by inadequate, improperly designed, located, installed or maintained subsurface sewage treatment systems.
(F) To provide for the orderly development of areas of the community which are not served by central public wastewater treatment systems and to reduce the need to install central public wastewater treatment systems in areas where they are not now currently planned.
(G) Technology and products employed in system design shall adequately protect the public health and the environment as determined by Minnesota Rules. Chapter 7083. and be approved for use by the Department or local unit of government.
(Ord. 2010-162, passed 5-17-2010)