BOARD00284

• Board Meeting Date: 1/12/1971
• Description: Agenda or Table of Contents, Minutes, Memos
• Board Meetings - Doc Type: Meeting

MR. BERTHELSON:

MR. STAPLETON:

MR. SMADES:

"Mr. Chairman, I take it that the Water
Board isn't trying to usurp any of the duties
of the Water Pollution Control Board in having
this discussion, are they?"

"I certainly assume not!"

"I'm Roger Smades of the state Health De-
partment. To start on the Grand Lake area,
Shadow Mountain Reservoir and Lake Granby, the
main activity started when the septic tank rules
and regulations were enacted by the Water Pollu-
tion control Commission. At that time we
received complaints of failed septic tanks in
the area and inadequate sewage treatment at
different developments.

I

The Water Pollution Control commission
sent one engineer and three technicians into
the area in July and August of 1968 and at
that time approximately 300 homes, establish-
ments, boat marinas, and so forth had their
sewage disposal facilities investigated to see
which ones were failing and which ones weren't.
As you know, Shadow Mountain Reservoir and
Grand Lake have a most dense population around
the shores, whereas Lake Granby doesn't. Of
the approximately 300 homes that were investi-
gated there were roughly 50 failed systems that
we discovered right away.

At that same time we started contacting
the people to get these systems into compliance
and also started in July of 1968 taking water
samples from various points in the three lakes.
We intended to take these samples twice a month,
but due to the workload that was already
scheduled for our technicians and the lack of
technicians we got these samples roughly about
every other month. Also in this same time we
were working with the people there to get the I
formation of a sanitation district in the
Grand Lake and Shadow Mountain areas so that
simple sewage treatment facilities could be
constructed.