Countywide : Board Considers Septic Tank Limits
Few, if any, new septic tanks would be allowed in Ventura County under a proposed rule by the Regional Water Quality Control Board, county officials said Tuesday.
If enacted, the rule would prohibit new development in many rural areas, said Robert Gallagher, manager of the resources section of the Environmental Health Department.
The areas most affected by the proposal would be unincorporated areas such as El Rio and the Santa Rosa, Las Posas and Santa Clara River valleys, officials said.
“If you owned vacant property, you wouldn’t be able to build until a sewer line came down the road and that could be 50 years,” Gallagher said.
The regional water board will decide on the rule at its next meeting May 21 in Ventura.
In 1989, there were 500 new septic tanks installed in the county, he said.
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