Chapter 17.383 DEVELOPMENT REGULATIONS FOR COMMUNITY SEWAGE DISPOSAL SYSTEMS AND LARGE ON-SITE SEWAGE SYSTEMS IN RURAL AREAS

Chapter 17.383
DEVELOPMENT REGULATIONS FOR COMMUNITY SEWAGE DISPOSAL SYSTEMS AND LARGE ON-SITE SEWAGE SYSTEMS IN RURAL AREAS

Sections:

17.383.010 Applicability.

17.383.030 Community sewage disposal system or large on-site sewage disposal system.

17.383.010 Applicability.

These regulations apply to all development proposed after the effective date of the ordinance codified in this chapter and located outside of urban growth areas (UGAs) and limited areas of more intensive rural development (LAMIRDs).

(Ord. 457 (2010) § 2 (part), 2010)

17.383.020 Definitions.

A. “Public sewer system” means a sewerage system which is:

1. Owned and operated by a city, town, county, or other municipal corporation such as a water, sewer, or water-sewer district; public utility district; port district; or federal, state, local agency or department thereof, or a person regulated by the Utilities and Transportation Commission; and

2. Consisting of a collection system and necessary trunks, pumping facilities and a means of final treatment and disposal of sewage; and

3. Approved by or under permit from the Department of Ecology, the Department of Health or the local health officer; and

4. Located within a UGA or LAMIRD, or otherwise approved pursuant to RCW 36.70A.110(4).

B. “Community sewage disposal system” means any system of piping, treatment devices and/or other facilities which:

1. Conveys, stores, treats and/or provides subsurface soil treatment and disposal on-site or on adjacent or nearby property under the control of the users; and

2. The system is not connected to a public sewer system; and

3. Is designed to serve more than one single-family dwelling or one multifamily dwelling but the design capacity does not exceed three thousand, five hundred gallons of sewage volume per day.

C. “Large on-site sewage system (LOSS)” means an on-site sewage system (OSS) that consists of an integrated system of components, located on or nearby the property it serves, that conveys, stores, treats, and provides subsurface soil treatment and disposal of domestic sewage with design flows of at least three thousand five hundred gallons of sewage volume per day up to and including one hundred thousand gallons of sewage volume per day.

(Ord. 457 (2010) § 2 (part), 2010)

17.383.030 Community sewage disposal system or large on-site sewage disposal system.

A. New construction of a community sewage disposal system or large on-site sewage disposal system and subsequent connection(s) to such systems for existing or new development shall be allowed only:

1. Where it is a necessary response to a documented public health or environmental hazard by the Kitsap County health district or the Kitsap County health district recommends that new development be connected to such systems; or

2. If the system is providing service to an essential public facility; or

3. If the system is providing service for an approved rural clustering program; or

4. The property is zoned as a rural commercial or rural industrial site.

B. All such connections to a community sewage disposal system or large on-site sewage disposal system shall also meet the following criteria, in addition to the criteria set forth in subsection (A) of this section:

1. Such connection does not allow for further development on the property that would not conform to current comprehensive plan land use and zoning designations; and

2. For new development, the development shall be at a total gross density equal to or less than that permitted by the zone(s) in which it occupies and meets all other zoning requirements such as setbacks, dimensions, et cetera.

(Ord. 457 (2010) § 2 (part), 2010)