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Comprehensive Plan <br />Sanitary Sewer Sub -Element <br />OBJECTIVE 2 Resional System Expansion/Correction of Deficiencies <br />By 2025 2414, at least 60% of all existing units in the county's service area will be connected to <br />the county's regional sanitary sewer system. This will be an increase from 52.7% in 2017 <br />POLICY 2.1: The county shall continue to offer the utility assessment program to areas <br />with septic systems within the County Utilities Department service area. <br />POLICY 2.2: The county shall continue to offer up to 10 year financing for all utility <br />assessments. <br />POLICY 2.3: The county shall given priority for the provision of public sanitary sewer <br />services to the subdivisions on the list of subdivisions as identified in Table 3.A.3 <br />designated as requiring sanitary sewer service due to public health threats by DOH. <br />POLICY 2.4: The county shall provide public sanitary sewer service to areas where the <br />lack of such service is determined to be a public health threat and shall initiate sewer <br />projects where feasible to serve subdivisions served by septic systems and identified in <br />Table 3.A.3.1 as posing a disproportionately high potential negative impact on Indian <br />River Lagoon water quality. The county shall recover costs through those connecting to <br />the system and directly benefitting from the improvement. <br />POLICY 2.5: Consistent with its interlocal agreements with the City of Sebastian and the <br />Town of Orchid, the county shall provide sanitary sewer services to those municipalities. <br />POLICY 2.6: By 2018, the county shall perform a financial analysis for septic to sewer <br />conversion projects. Based on that analysis and available funding a specific list of <br />subdivisions to be connected to public sanitary sewer system by certain dates will be <br />identified. <br />POLICY 2.7: By 2028, the county shall provide sanitary sewer service to at least five (5) <br />subdivisions identified in Table 3.A.3.1 as posing a disproportionately high potential <br />negative impact on Indian River Lagoon water quality. The county shall recover costs <br />through those connecting to the system and directly benefitting from the improvement. <br />OBJECTIVE 3 Surface Water and Groundwater Ouality <br />Through the time horizon of the plan, the county will have no instances of sanitary sewer <br />facilities contaminating surface water or groundwater resources. <br />Community Development Department <br />266 <br />Indian River County 40 <br />A A <br />