PADEP Proposes Antidegradation Standard for On-lot Septic Systems
PADEP Proposes antidegradation for On-lot septic systems -Sewage Facilities Planning Module Review for Onlot Sewage Systems Proposed in High Quality and Exceptional Value Watersheds – Proposed Policy – 385-2208-XXX.
POLICY: The Department will assure that cost-effective and reasonable best management practices (BMPs) for nonpoint source control are achieved to maintain and protect water quality when reviewing sewage facilities planning modules for proposed individual or community onlot sewage systems in high quality and exceptional value watersheds.
PURPOSE: The purpose of this guidance is to describe BMPs for individual and community onlot sewage systems that can achieve nonpoint source control in High Quality and Exceptional Value waters, and to provide a process to select appropriate BMPs to achieve such control.
Problem
1. Implementation – Policy says it applies to only new systems or permits, this will therefore include all existing lots not developed. The policy also suggests it should be used for all repairs.
2. Cost to Implement- Could add up to cost of installing and maintaining septic systems in PA.
3. PADEP says the problem is because of nitrate. The only problem is that nitrates are not a problem in PA and the nitrate loading from septic systems to the stream may be only 4%. The major sources fossil fuels, atmospheric deposition, agricultural runoff, urban runoff, and wastewater treatment plants.
Encouraging Others to learn More – My personal blog on the subject.
To review the proposed policy
PA DEP Presentation on the Policy
Rachel Carson State Office Building
400 Market Street
Harrisburg, PA 17105-8774
tstarosta@pa.gov
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Today, Gov. Tom Corbett signed into law Act 41 of 2013 (previously House Bill 1325) amending the Pennsylvania Sewage Facilities Act (aka Act 537).
Enactment of this law was a legislative priority for PASEO. Thank you to all members who sent letters of support for the bill, worked with the Department, and supported key legislators in moving HB1325.
The new law provides the sewage planning community with greater certainty when conducting planning reviews and issuing permits for systems in High Quality or Exceptional Value watersheds by allowing them to rely on existing standards found in Act 537.
Specifically, the new law amends Act 537 to categorically state that “[f]or permits for individual on-lot sewage systems and community on-lot sewage systems, the use of such systems when designed and approved in accordance with the requirements of this act and the regulations promulgated under this act satisfies the antidegradation requirements of the act of June 22, 1937 (P.L.1987, No.394), known as ‘The Clean Streams Law,’ and the regulations promulgated under that act.” View the full text HERE .
Consequently, PA DEP has acknowledged that there is no longer a need to continue development of the draft antidegradation technical guidance document that it proposed earlier this year.
The new law takes effect immediately.
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