Add to that mix an increasing demand for rural residential property from people wishing to escape from more urban environments. A discussion on how local planning efforts and ordinances in Central Wisconsin have attempted to address some of these conflicts and a perspective on the future for managing rural development will be highlighted. Previously the code relied on passive systems with the public health safeguards built into the design. The code implemented in July of 2001 allows system designs that rely on mechanical or chemical processes to treat the domestic wastewater. This increases the risk to public health and groundwater, especially in sensitive areas with shallow groundwater or bedrock.
Children have greater susceptibility to diseases related to contamination from sewage.
The Institute of Medicine's Environmental Health Roundtable process will and application to the Symposium and rural communities will be explored. The process of natural, built, and social exposures of children and health outcomes will be explored through a variety of panel presentations from submitted abstracts. Tables will be arranged by subject matter. Opportunity to tour the infectious disease and reproductive toxicology labs of the National Farm Medicine Center will also be available. Panels of experts will be developed and poised a variety of questions to assist in defining next steps.