COLDWATER, MI (WTVB) – Proposed new state regulations have local health department officials worried.
Branch-Hillsdale-St Joseph Community Health Agency Director of Environmental Health Paul Andriacchi expressed some reservations about a proposed statewide sanitary code during last Thursday’s Board of Health meeting.
The proposal is still in a draft form but Andriacchi feels it will eventually become law since it has the backing of Governor Snyder.
But health directors have some serious concerns such as how it will be funded especially since it will require a lot more inspections by local health departments.
He said it will have a lot of triggers that will require individual homeowners to have their septic systems inspected. It would eliminate point of sale programs that some counties have.
Andriacchi said that will make it hard for local health departments to track which properties have been inspected and he felt some will see this kind of statewide sanitary code as being an intrusion for homeowners.
