Anecdotes
Greatest Success
Kitsap Health identified a commercial OSS failure in Gorst in 2008 that precipitated the installation of sewer in the Gorst waterfront area by the City of Bremerton through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009. This grant provided sewer infrastructure and residential connections. Kitsap Health ordered commercial properties in the area with non-conforming OSS and those with no OSS records to connect to the public sewer system by the end of 2011. All of these were connected or vacated with the exception of one property, with limited use, that is in the process of working through complex easement issues in order to connect to sewer. No shoreline hotspots were identified during follow-up shoreline surveys in 2013.
Greatest Challenge
The economic downturn has resulted in more people living in recreational vehicles and people having more difficulties finding the funds to repair failing OSS and install farm BMPs. Another challenge is keeping the public's trust when OSSs are blamed for pollution without supporting evidence.
Needs to Further Goals or Pollution Control Plan / Lessons Learned
Fostering ethic of appropriate uses of property.
Links to Other Documents
Quality Assurance Project Plans (QAPP's)
Others
- SPD Workshop Presentation (PDF)
- Bacterial Pollution Reduction in an Urban Watershed (PDF)
- Hood Canal Watershed: 2005 - 2011 Pollution Identification and Correction Status Report (PDF)
- Hood Canal Onsite Septic System GIS Mapping (PDF) and corresponding report (PDF)
- Summary and Review of Onsite Sewage System Regulations For Local Health Jurisdictions of the Hood Canal Watershed (PDF)
- Hood Canal PIC Draft Monitoring Plan (PDF)
- Hood Canal PIC Draft Work Plan (PDF)
- Hood Canal PIC Animal Waste Pollution Source Identification Strategy (PDF)
- Hood Canal PIC Stormwater Pollution Source Identification Strategy (PDF)
- Hood Canal PIC Sustainable Funding Strategy (PDF)
- Kitsap County Local Management Plan for Onsite Sewage (PDF)