                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

SEWAGE TREATMENT PLANTS TO INCLUDE CERTAIN CAPABILITY (§ 15.2-2123)

Whenever the governing body of a locality or a combination of governing bodies
of two or more localities is using the authority of this chapter to construct a
new sewage treatment plant, or a hydraulic expansion or major upgrade of an
existing sewage treatment plant, the facility shall be designed and constructed
so that it has the capability to treat the septage from all onsite sewage
disposal systems, which are not adequately served by another approved disposal
site, located in the area of the locality or combination thereof to be served by
such plant. However, the locality or combination thereof may limit the amount of
septage that the sewage treatment plant is designed to accept in order to
eliminate or reduce a disproportionate engineering, design, or fiscal burden
that may be placed on the sewage treatment plant or its users, to utilize
cost-effective regional approaches, or to address engineering design
considerations including protection of biological treatment processes.

The locality or combination thereof shall notify the Department of Environmental
Quality of the septage treatment capability of the sewage treatment plant prior
to the Department&#8217;s issuance of a state certificate to construct for such
new, expanded, or upgraded facility. The locality or combination thereof shall
provide a copy of such notification to the Board of Health to assist the Board
of Health in its long-range planning pursuant to § 32.1-163.2.

This notification requirement shall not apply to any new project for which a
preliminary engineering report has been submitted to the Department of
Environmental Quality on or before December 31, 2008.

HISTORY: 1986, c. 329, § 15.1-317.1; 1997, c. 587; 2008, c. 389.