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AUG 0 9 1990 soap Mr. Snoberger's concern was that we are talking about developers extending main lines off site up to a mile, and we have no threshhold limit in there. Director Keating agreed this should be in there. Director Galanis brought up connection to public water and the requirements for franchises. He wished to know if those rules say that if you do a development on a small public water system, that system must -be turned over to the County. This was confirmed by Mr. Rohani, and Director Galanis noted that the county has 500 systems out there right now and is the County ready for all that? Mr. Rohani explained that this is for new package system plants, and Attorney Vitunac clarified that dedicate means when the County wants to take them over as customers of the system, they will then turn these plants off without cost to us.. Director Galanis thought that in order to build these systems, they have to give the County the well. Director Keating advised that originally in our Comp Plan we had a policy that Utilities on a case by case basis would decide if they want to maintain and own a plant, and .the DCA said that is not a policy - it is an open end statement that doesn't give you any direction and we should clarify it. So, we worked on this, and this is what we got, but it was on package treatment plants that it would be that way, and now it is the new consid- eration of the aerobic treatment units that has put us in a dilemma with this. John Lang of Utilities stated that from the Utility Department standpoint the intent when the regulations were written was for a public system to consist of 25 people or more and have greater than 2500 gpd. If we are talking about a water system, for example, for a strip shopping center that is just one unit and has less than 25 people, Utilities is not interested in operating something like that. However, if we are talking about a subdivision that has over 25 homes, like Copeland's Landing, 18