In the October NEWSLETTER we will look at a new revision to existing law governing Sewage Treatment in the State of Ohio.  The law was passed in May of 2005 and will become effective on January 1, 2007.   It grants the Ohio Department of Health oversight of local health departments involved in sewage treatment regulations.   It sets up laws for site and soil evaluation, standards for siting, designing, operating, maintaining and abandoning of sewage systems.  All new systems must adhere to the rules.  Existing systems installed prior to January 1, 2007 are deemed approved unless they are failing and creating a nuisance.

There are many items of concern with this new application of the law that must be reviewed by the design engineer on sewage system design projects.  The law now establishes competency requirements for installers, service providers and septage haulers and requires an onsite soil and site evaluation including the need to obtain a report from a certified soil scientist.  There is a good deal to review.

WEB LINK of THE MONTH, www.lcghd.org  Lake County General Health District has more info on the January 1, 2007 deadline.

        As always, you can count on McSteen and Associates, a multi-faceted second-generation family business that has been serving Northeast Ohio since 1970 to help you better design your project. The McSteen & Associates Engineering and Surveying Departments will design a quality product, using the experience gathered over many years of dealing with government agencies, in a manner readily accepted by the City Councils, County Engineers Office and the Recorders Office.   The management team consisting of Terry Feller, President and Registered Professional Engineer and Surveyor, Tim Feller, Vice President and Registered Professional Surveyor and Debbie Feller CFO and Certified Public Accountant and the 62 employees in the offices in Cuyahoga, Lake,