Report to landowners suspected noncompliant or failing septic systems as part of an educational, informational and financial assistance and outreach program designed to trigger voluntary landowner action to improve septic systems.
Best Practice of this action
Rating Guideline
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Periodic or ongoing tracking, inspections, report review, and/or outreach to system owners. |
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Require inspections on a set timetable, at time of sale or when a building permit is pulled; require failing systems to be upgraded within 12 or fewer months. |
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Provide financial assistance for bringing systems into compliance; bring all remaining septic owners voluntarily into central sewer system; require properties to connect to City services whenever a property requests to be annexed into the City. |
Resources
- Cass County in central Minnesota has used visual inspection to identify possible septic failures.
- 80% of local septic programs require inspections when a property is sold or transferred (MPCA: 2018).
- Marine on St. Croix created a detailed webpage resource for residents to learn more about their septic systems and what to do when a system is failing.
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