SepticSmart Week is an annual outreach campaign focused on educating homeowners and communities on how to properly care for and maintain their septic systems. This webinar (9/18, 1-3pm) will focus on the perspectives of state and county health and environmental departments, highlighting their SepticSmart Week outreach efforts and providing examples of strategies they’ve used to overcome local challenges.

Guest speakers include environmental and wastewater experts from the Ohio Department of Health, New Hampshire Department of Environmental Services (Ray Gordon), and La Porte County Health Department.

Topics will include highlights and discussion on: EPA’s SepticSmart Week and a walkthrough of available resources, the challenges and successes of working with local jurisdictions, how to navigate differing permit requirements, and a newly enacted local ordinance that mandates the inspection of septic systems at the point of sale, the first in its state.

The intended audiences for this webinar include local, state, and federal government officials such as wastewater professionals, health officials, and regulators, as well as community leaders.
For additional information on the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Decentralized Wastewater MOU Partnership and past recorded webinars, please visit www.epa.gov/septic. For information on SepticSmart Week 2019, please visit https://www.epa.gov/septic/septicsmart-week.