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9; Orono's established inspection program will monitor all on-site systems to assure <br />proper use and maintenance. The owners of all properties in the rural area are required <br />to properly use and maintain their on-site sewage treatment systems so as to assure the <br />highest level of adequate sewage treatment. This requirement is administered and enforced <br />by the City's established On-Site Management and Inspection Program. <br />Evidence of improper system functioning will require immediate corrective action. <br />Whenever an existing on-site system should be found to be operating improperly, the <br />property owner will be responsible for correcting the deficiencies in an e.\peditious manner. <br />Such corrective measures include a number of options and alternatives ranging from simple <br />maintenance to system replacement. If the owner cannot afford repairs or refuses to correct <br />a demonstrated problem, the City will cause the repairs to be made and the cost to be <br />assessed to the-property. If repairs are impossible, the City will condemn the property. <br />a. 17. Analysis of alternative waste management options will occur if sewage treatment <br />deficiencies are documented in rural housing clusters. In the event that multiple on-site <br />system deficiencies should occur in one of the extsttng few remaining isolated pockets of <br />unsewered development in the rural area, the correction of those deficiencies will be a <br />concern of the City, the neighborhood and the property owners alike. Individual system <br />repair or replacement will remain the first option. This may involve joint systems, <br />acquisition of additional land or selective condemnation. Other options include innovative <br />or low-water systems, community drainfields or selective condemnation. The extension of <br />municipal sanitary sewer will be considered only if the environmental and/or health <br />problems cannot be economically resolved on-site and then only if the neighborhood is <br />adjacent to the existing urban area or along the route of the MWC€MCE$ interceptor. In <br />no case will the land use density be increased or new areas opened for development because <br />of such a sewer extension. <br />43; 18. The City's on-site management program will be self-supporting. The administration and <br />enforcement of the On-Site Management and Inspection Program will be completely <br />financed by permit fees and an annual service charge to be paid by all operators of on-site <br />sewage treatment systems, which charges shall be sufficient to cover all allocable costs <br />without requiring any general tax subsidy. <br />43.19. Education is a principal tool of the on-site manager. A major emphasis of the On-Site <br />Management Program will be in the education of designe rs; tnatallcra, and homeowners in <br />the proper location, desig n, eon struet io nruse and maintenance of individual on-site sewage <br />treatment systems. Education of ISTS professionals will remain in the purview of the <br />Minnesota Pollution Control Agency. <br />44:2^ On-site sewage treatment systems will be designed and constructed to strict <br />performance standards. Site evaluation, location, design and construction of all new on ­ <br />site systems, and repairs to all existing systems, shall be by licensed trained installers ISTS <br />professionals in accordance with State requirements and shall utilize methods and materials <br />consistent with the rceemmendatien a requirements of the Minnesota Pollution Control <br />Ageney'a WPC -40 Rules Chanter 7080 and the City of Orono's mere restrietive On-Site <br />Sewage Treatment Ordinances. <br />CMP 6-22 <br />I <br />I