Court Opinion

ID: 9723831
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-26 10:34:47.790223+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:24:52.424638
License: Public Domain

SULLIVAN, Judge,
concurring.
Although I concur, I believe that the majority opinion mistakenly assumes that if effluent seeps from the particular property concerned, the sewage disposal system cannot be considered an on-site system.
Sewage and effluent are not the same thing. Effluent is the result of on-site sewage disposal. It is quite clear that the Administrative Code contemplates the production of effluent from a septic tank, and that the effluent will be discharged for direct absorption into the soil. See 410 IAC 6-8-2 (j) in combination with 410 IAC 6-8-2 (n).
It may well be that the drafter of the regulations did not intend that pre-Decem-ber 1977 sand filtration systems used in conjunction with a septic tank be exempted, but the regulations above cited do not reflect that intent.
I concur because the overriding public health considerations of 410 IAC 6-8-3 which prohibit the contamination and pollution of streams and ditches must take precedence over the generalized “grandfather” clause of 410 IAC 6-8-12 (C).