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Local On-site Management Plan Guidance

This page is intended to assist the 12 Puget Sound health jurisdictions with developing and writing their on-site management plans and marine recovery area strategies.  The resources listed below are maintained by the Department of Health and other agencies.  New resources will be added as they become available.

Local On-site Management Plans

Documents/Publications

Marine Recovery Area Delineations

Meetings and Workshops

Links

Local Health Jurisdictions

Local Onsite Management Plans

The following local health jurisdictions have onsite management plans posted on their web sites. Some of these plans have been adopted by the local boards of health; others have been finalized but not yet adopted.   (This information was last updated 6/25/07)
 

Local health jurisdiction	Date adopted by local board of health
Clallam County	6/19/07
Island County	6/18/07
San Juan County	7/23/07
Skagit County	not yet adopted
Snohomish County	6/05/07

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Documents or Publications

• Marine Recovery Area (MRA) Guidance document

• O & M, The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly -- presentation by Jerry Deeter (Kitsap County Environmental Health Director) at the 2003 On-site Wastewater Treatment Short Course sponsored by University of Washington, Seattle.

• On-sites On-Line - Online educational resources about on-site sewage (septic) systems for homeowners, property managers, local health staff, On-site Designers, and O&M professionals

• On-site Sewage System Management Plan Guidance for Puget Sound Local Health Jurisdictions - June 2006

• RCW Chapter 70.118A (formerly 3SHB 1458) - Marine Recovery Areas

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Marine Recovery Area Delineations

• Ecology 303d (from federal Clean Water Act) for fecal coliform and low dissolved oxygen

  • 2004 Integrated Water Quality Assessment (303(d) and 305(b)

  • Data:  303d - Impaired Water (GIS data set) (zip file; save to your computer)

• Shellfish Growing Area Classification Program

  • Data: Commercial Shellfish Growing Area (GIS data set) (zip file, save to your computer)

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Meetings and Workshops

Next Meeting:  To be announced for 2007
 

Previous Meeting notes:

• July 19, 2006 Notes (PDF 83 kb)

Links

• Washington State Department of Health, Office of Shellfish and Water Protection

• Washington State Department of Ecology - Water Quality

• Hood Canal Dissolved Oxygen Program (Research) - Puget Sound Action Team (PSAT)

• EPA links: 

  • EPA (Draft) Handbook for Developing Watershed Plans to Restore and Protect Our Waters

  • Polluted Runoff (Nonpoint Source Pollution) - EPA

  • Voluntary National Guidelines for Management of On-site and Clustered Wastewater Treatment Systems - EPA:  Pub number 832-b-03-001 March 2003.

• Kitsap County Health District - "Water Quality Trend Monitoring Plan, Streams and Marine Waters" - November 2005.  The plan determines ongoing, long-term water quality trends for marine waters and streams in Kitsap County.  It also details the goals, objectives, and methodologies of the trend monitoring program and serves as a guide to Health District monitoring staff.

• Kitsap County Health District - "2006 Priority Area Work List for the Pollution Identification and Correction Program" - January 2006

• Low Dissolved Oxygen in Hood Canal - Extensive information about Hood Canal processes that are involved with the lack of oxygen - presented by Jan Newton, PhD, Principal Oceanographer at University of Washington and Principal Investigator for the Hood Canal Dissolved Oxygen Program's (HCDOP) Integrated Assessment and Modeling Study.

• Thurston County Health Department - Henderson Inlet On-Site Sewage System Operation & Maintenance Program - In November 2005, the Thurston County Board of Health created the Henderson Watershed Protection Area (HWPA). The purpose of the HWPA is to reduce the amount of fecal bacteria pollution in Henderson Inlet that is coming from failing septic systems. The program establishes more rigorous maintenance and inspection requirements for all septic systems within the boundaries of the watershed protection area to ensure that septic systems are working properly. The program goes into effect in 2007, and will be phased in over a 3-year period.

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Puget Sound Local Health Jurisdictions

• Clallam County Dept. of Health and Human Services

• Island County Public Health

• Jefferson County Public Health

• Kitsap County Health District

• Mason County Environmental Health Dept.

• San Juan County Public Health

• Seattle-King County Public Health

• Skagit County Public Health

• Snohomish County Health District

• Tacoma/Pierce County Health Dept.

• Thurston County Public Health & Social Services Dept.

• Whatcom County Health Dept.

For questions, please contact the Wastewater Management Program at wastewatermgmt@doh.wa.gov, or call 360-236-3062.

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Marine
Recovery Area (MRA) Guidance document

• On-site Management Plan for Local Health

• On-sites Online - Educational resources about on-site septic systems (PDF 151  kb)

• Document combines the on-site regulations currently in effect: (Chapter 246-272A WAC)

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