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Sanitarian's Meetings
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Hays - November 14
Chanute - December 10
Lawrence - December 11
Wichita - December 12
Contact your Watershed Field Coordinator for more details.
Lagoon Maintenance Contract
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Is anyone using a Lagoon Maintenance Contract form?
Private Sewage Disposal Systems
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Does any one have any experience with GEO-flow Pipe Leaching systems? I would appreciate any information regarding it. jkraatz@leavenworthcounty.org 913 684 1084
Funeral Homes and Onsite WW Systems
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In the State of Kansas, only domestic wastes may be directed to an onsite wastewater system. Domestic waste, as defined by the State of Kansas, includes waste originating primarily from kitchen, bathroom and laundry sources, and includes wastes from food preparation, dishwashing, garbage grinding, toilets, baths, showers and sinks. Wastewater generated from the activities at a funeral home would not fall within this definition. If wastewater, other than that carrying domestic waste, from a funeral home was to be directed to an onsite wastewater system, that system would be considered a Class V industrial waste injection well subject to regulation by the Kansas Department of Health and Environment's (KDHE) Underground Injection Control (UIC) Program.
Information available to KDHE indicates the following wastes are often generated by funeral homes.
Blood and bodily fluids
Formaldehyde
Cleaners and sanitizers
Shampoos
Chlorinated solvents
Infectious diseases
These wastes have the potential to contaminate ground and/or surface water in the following ways:
Blood and bodily fluids have much higher biological oxygen demands and nitrogen content than domestic wastes.
Formaldehyde is a potential carcinogen and may also be harmful to soil bacteria.
Wastewater from cleaning utensils and laundry, and sanitizing the preparation room may contain phenols and mercuric chloride.
Some shampoos used may contain chlorinated hydrocarbons.
Chlorinated solvents are sometimes used for cleaning purposes.
Some infectious diseases are known to be transmissible from human corpses to living humans. Examples include, but are not limited to, rabies, meningococcal infection, anthrax, and Ebola.
KDHE strongly recommends that funeral home waste not be directed to an onsite wastewater system. If feasible, these wastes should be directed to a municipal sewer system. If this option is not feasible, we recommend a water tight holding tank be installed and periodically pumped. If a holding tank is to be installed we suggest the following inquires be made prior to installation:
Ask the local septic tank pumpers if they would be willing to haul this type of waste.
Contact the public wastewater treatment facility to determine if they will accept wastewater pumped from the holding tank.
Retail Food Inspection Videos
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Excerpt from the NEHA E-News March 2013
Environmental Health Video Resources
Environmental health professionals are often asked, “What do you do?” A thoughtful NEHA member has taken the time to search the Web for videos to answer this question and has shared some of those video links with us. We thought these videos would be a valuable tool that you can share with policy makers, community members, colleagues, and even your family and friends. They are also great resources to help orient new employees to what work in this field entails.
• Environmental health professionals inspecting retail food facilities:
o http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3MRHFMXFV5o&feature=player_embedded
• Environmental health professionals inspecting swimming pool facilities:
o http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=EVow5WemVX0
Swimming Pool Inspection Videos
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Excerpt from the NEHA E-News March 2013
Environmental Health Video Resources
Environmental health professionals are often asked, “What do you do?” A thoughtful NEHA member has taken the time to search the Web for videos to answer this question and has shared some of those video links with us. We thought these videos would be a valuable tool that you can share with policy makers, community members, colleagues, and even your family and friends. They are also great resources to help orient new employees to what work in this field entails.
• Environmental health professionals inspecting retail food facilities:
o http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3MRHFMXFV5o&feature=player_embedded
• Environmental health professionals inspecting swimming pool facilities:
o http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=EVow5WemVX0
Rock Concert Sanitation Requirements
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Looking for help determining what requirements would be appropriate for a mass gathering, such as a Rock Concert, in terms of number of chemical toilets per amount of people; how much drinking water should be required; trash dumpsters; etc. Does anyone have any pointers?
Resale Inspections of Onsite Private Sewage Disposal Systems
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Do you require a resale inspection of onsite private sewage disposal systems?
Does the governing body complete the inspection or private contractors?
James Kraatz
Leavenworth County
LEPP Funding - Senate Bill 32
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Session of 2013
SENATE BILL No. 32
By Legislative Budget Committee
1-16
AN ACT making and concerning appropriations for the fiscal year ending
June 30, 2014, for the department of health and environment; relating
to the local environmental protection programs.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Kansas:
Section 1. (a) For the fiscal year ending June 30, 2014,
appropriations are hereby made, restrictions and limitations are hereby
imposed, and transfers, capital improvement projects, fees, receipts,
disbursements and acts incidental to the foregoing are hereby directed or
authorized as provided in this act.
(b) This act shall not be subject to the provisions of subsection (a) of
K.S.A. 75-6702, and amendments thereto.
(c) The appropriations made by this act shall not be subject to the
provisions of K.S.A. 46-155, and amendments thereto.
Sec. 2.
DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND ENVIRONMENT – DIVISION OF
ENVIRONMENT
(a) There is appropriated for the above agency from the state general
fund for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2014, the following:
Local environmental protection program.....................................$1,000,000
Provided, That any unencumbered balance in excess of $100 as of June 30,
2014, is hereby reappropriated for fiscal year 2015.
(b) During the fiscal year ending June 30, 2014, all expenditures by
the department of health and environment – division of environment from
the local environmental protection program fund shall be made for
purposes of developing and implementing environmental protection plans
and programs pursuant to the provisions of K.S.A. 75-5657, and
amendments thereto.
Sec. 3. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its
publication in the statute book.
Can too much toilet paper in the septic tank cause a back up?
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I have a resident who is having sewage backup into the house. The tank was pumped on 31 Dec 2012 and the pumper indicated that there was about 1.5 - 2' of toilet paper in the bottom of the tank and that toilet paper was everywhere in the tank. It was difficult to pump the tank due to the amount of toilet paper and it was like pumpig a tank that had not been pumped in years. They attribute the amount of toilet paper as the cause of the backup. Gound was frozen and not able to probe.
It is a new house and system, installed Oct 2011.
1,200 gallon tank 2,500 SF lateral perc rate 37 mintues per inch load rate .2 G/SF/Day per soils chart
4 people are living in the house and they are using 4,000 - 6,500 gallons of water/month (233 gallons/day)
It is reasonable that too much toilet paper is causing the backup? The installer checked pipe elevations at inlet, outlet and first lateral prior to the tank pumping and they were all good.
I appreciate input.
Jim Kraatz jkraatz@leavenworthcounty.org 913 684 1084
