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L988 Systems Information Statement Orono existing system problems and training of personnel. Where comprehensive plans permit densities in excess of 4 »inits per 40 acres, local governments should also incorporate an on*going inspection and maintenance element as part of their on-site system management controls (Policy 2 and Content Requirements for Local Sewer Plans). See Policy Plan Table 8. It is the Council's position that group on-site sewage disposal systems, such as communal drainfialds are acceptable to abate pollution problems caused by existing urban concentrations not designated as rural centers (Policy 11). The content requirements for local sewer plans address local planning for these systems. 3. Management of Private Wastewater Treatment Plants Small private treatment plants are located throughout the Metropolitan Area serving such developments as individual industries, mobile home parks, and ocher urban-type uses located in the urban and rural service areas. The Council is concerned that these facilities encourage urban development in the rural service area or become the responsibility of the Council or Commission due to permit violations or death or bankruptcy of the owner-operator. The revised Policy Plan states that private treatment facilities should be permitted only if they are provided for in Council-approved comprehensive plans and are in full accord with the local comprehensive plan (Policy 12). Orono should include in the sewer alement (sewer policy plan) of its local comprehensive plan the conditions under which private treatment plants would be allowed, including the location (map), capacity and flows to existing facilities, declare that under no circumstances will private wastewater treatment plants be acceptable. If there is a later change in the conssunity's position or policy, a plan amendment should be submitted for Council approval. B• Determining Whether m. pXflB It may not be necessary for Orono to prepare an amendment to the sewer element (sewer policy plan) in its cvirrent comprehensive plan. If Orono's plan or expectations for development meet the following conditions, the community may choose not to prepare an amendment to the sewer element of its comprehensive plan. The community should submit instead a statement to the Council certifying that the community's plan or expectations for future development meet all of these conditions. If the conditions change, an amendment should be filed at that time. Soom of the conditions listed may not be applicable to your community. 1. the coonunity agrees with the Council's population, household and employment forecasts for 1990 and 2000, 2. the community is in agreement with the Council's forecasts for sewered population, housing, employmf.nt and wastewater flows for 1990, 2000 and 2010, 3. no increase is planned in the community's projected wastewater flows for each metropolitan Interceptor from those stated in the community's current Council-approved sewer elerient, II-3