01-01-2010, 05:37 PM
Bob...
I'm not sure about Hawaii with regard to septic tank inspections but in Washington, the septic systems are still inspected by the health district in most counties/cities or by the local public civil engineer (a municipality call). It's sort of similar to why they inspect a plan with regard to a structural engineer approved plan aspect. It's merely a secondary back up check to make sure all the i's are dotted and the t's are crossed.
Who handles the septic permits in CoH? I thought it was the Health District. Do they inspect the work after it's done? I think they might, but I don't know for sure.
When it boils down to it, there are public interest liabilities involved in the septic tank matters just as there are with the cesspool.
When an OB plumbs, wires or builds the single family structure of his or her own home, there is no public safety interest liability. Only if they drill a well, put in a septic system/cesspool, geothermal/nuclear/hydro electric power plant, manufacturing plant, public facility and or multi family dwelling is there a public safety interest liability.
I only removed the "cesspool" from the list by virtue of it's inherent inevitable contamination of the local ground water, if buried it's simplicity of design and near non ability to explode. It will no doubt contaminate the public ground water, therefore why lay a burden of liability on something that is failure by desing and will infect the public regardless of inspection. The liability is 100% on the shoulders of the State that allows a cesspool thus the public endangerment and contamination of it's citizens.
If the OB were to build his or her house and do everything well below the standards of code with regard to plumbing, electrical and structure... who will be effected should it catch on fire, fall down or leak sewer gas into the house? Only the OB related occupants of the house will be effected. The effects begin and end with the OB and his or her immediate family. These are individual safety issues and not public related safety issues.
E ho'a'o no i pau kuhihewa.
I'm not sure about Hawaii with regard to septic tank inspections but in Washington, the septic systems are still inspected by the health district in most counties/cities or by the local public civil engineer (a municipality call). It's sort of similar to why they inspect a plan with regard to a structural engineer approved plan aspect. It's merely a secondary back up check to make sure all the i's are dotted and the t's are crossed.
Who handles the septic permits in CoH? I thought it was the Health District. Do they inspect the work after it's done? I think they might, but I don't know for sure.
When it boils down to it, there are public interest liabilities involved in the septic tank matters just as there are with the cesspool.
When an OB plumbs, wires or builds the single family structure of his or her own home, there is no public safety interest liability. Only if they drill a well, put in a septic system/cesspool, geothermal/nuclear/hydro electric power plant, manufacturing plant, public facility and or multi family dwelling is there a public safety interest liability.
I only removed the "cesspool" from the list by virtue of it's inherent inevitable contamination of the local ground water, if buried it's simplicity of design and near non ability to explode. It will no doubt contaminate the public ground water, therefore why lay a burden of liability on something that is failure by desing and will infect the public regardless of inspection. The liability is 100% on the shoulders of the State that allows a cesspool thus the public endangerment and contamination of it's citizens.
If the OB were to build his or her house and do everything well below the standards of code with regard to plumbing, electrical and structure... who will be effected should it catch on fire, fall down or leak sewer gas into the house? Only the OB related occupants of the house will be effected. The effects begin and end with the OB and his or her immediate family. These are individual safety issues and not public related safety issues.
E ho'a'o no i pau kuhihewa.