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Comprehensive Plan <br />Sanitary Sewer Sub -Element <br />POLICY 3.1: The DOH -Indian River shall conduct annual inspections of septic systems <br />that are associated with heavy commercial, industrial, and manufacturing or equivalent <br />uses. The results of these inspections may be used in conjunction with other items in <br />prioritizing sanitary sewer service expansion. <br />POLICY 3.2: The county shall regularly monitor all centralized sanitary sewer facilities <br />to ensure that they do not contaminate surface water or groundwater resources. <br />POLICY 3.3: To ensure that hazardous waste is not discharged into ground or surface <br />water, the DOH -Indian River shall require samplings of onsite sewage systems for <br />businesses which have been identified as hazardous waste generators suspected of illegal <br />discharges. Violators shall be prosecuted according to federal, state and/or local <br />regulations. <br />OBJECTIVE 4 Water Conservation <br />Through the time horizon of the plan, 100% of the wastewater effluent produced by the county <br />centralized sanitary sewer facilities will be reused. <br />POLICY 4.1: The county shall continue to reuse wastewater by spray irrigation, with <br />percolation ponds and wetlands as back-up. <br />POLICY 4.2: The county shall encourage large volume irrigation users, such as <br />developments with golf courses, to use reuse water for spray irrigation. <br />POLICY 4.3: The county shall continue to enforce Land Development Regulations that <br />require developments that use treated wastewater for spray irrigation to construct and <br />dedicate to the county the effluent transmission lines needed to transport the effluent to <br />the development. <br />POLICY 4.4: The county shall require all new subdivisions or residential projects of 25 <br />or more lots/units within one-quarter of a mile of an existing re -use line to connect to the <br />re -use line when capacity exists. <br />OBJECTIVE 5 Capital Improvements <br />By 2022, the county will have completed the sanitary sewer improvements listed in the county's <br />5 year Capital Improvements Program in order to maximize the use of existing facilities and <br />Community Development Department <br />267 <br />Indian River County 41 <br />