REGULATIONS Last Updated July 1, 2012

COMMONWEALTH OF VIRGINIA
BOARD FOR WATERWORKS AND WASTEWATER WORKS
OPERATORS AND ONSITE SEWAGE SYSTEM PROFESSIONALS

http://www.dpor.virginia.gov/uploadedFiles/MainSite/Content/Boards/WWWOOSSP/A436-19REGS.pdf#

"BE SURE YOU READ AND UNDERSTAND THE STANDARDS OF PRACTICE. YOUR FAILURE TO OBEY THESE STANDARDS COULD RESULT IN A MONETARY PENALTY, THE LOSS OF YOUR LICENSE, OR OTHER DISCIPLINARY ACTION."

The above quote can be found under Statement of Purpose (p. ii) as circled below in red. "The jig is up the news is out." All onsite sewage system professionals are required to hold a valid license. Any licensed individual performing duties as an onsite sewage system professional shall be responsible for full compliance with this chapter.

 

 

Matters of Public Concern

 "Public health is what we, as a society, do collectively to assure the conditions for people to be healthy." - INSTITUTE OF MEDICINE, THE FUTURE OF PUBLIC HEALTH (1988)

July 19, 2012 meeting - In case any one missed a previous post a few days ago, a meeting of the Sewage Handling and Disposal Regulations Advisory Committee (SHADAC) had been scheduled to meet today at the DPOR facility near Richmond, VA.

Regrettably, the meeting was canceled last week by the Department's Office of Environmental Health (OEH) with no immediate plan to reschedule. In general, SHADAC members meet periodically "to make recommendations to the Commissioner regarding sewage handling and disposal policies, procedures and programs of the department."

The Department's decision disappointed several industry regulants working to communicate "matters of public concern" about potential conflicts within the current regulatory framework. The next SHADAC meeting has yet to be determined, but OEH was trying to schedule a new meeting place in Northern Virginia around the first or second week of October.

§ 54.1-2302. License required.

Biennial Report 2008-2010 (link to pdf)

§ 54.1-2302. License required.(link to Legislative Information System)

No person shall operate a waterworks or wastewater works, perform the duties of an onsite soil evaluator, or install or operate an alternative onsite sewage system, without a valid license.

(1979, c. 408, § 54-573.18; 1988, c. 765; 2007, cc. 892, 924.)
Legislative Information System.

WWWOOSSP Minutes, September 27, 2011

Onsite Soil Evaluator Duties

WWWOOSSP Minutes, September 27, 2011 (image above refers to pp. 3-4)

Sewage Handling and Disposal Regulations Advisory Committee

Meeting Status - CANCELED

http://townhall.virginia.gov/L/ViewMeeting.cfm?MeetingID=18420

DPOR News Release, July 1, 2012

http://www.dpor.virginia.gov/News/Press-Releases/2012/July-1/

http://lis.virginia.gov/

http://www.dpor.virginia.gov/Boards/WWWOOSSP/COSSI_Exam_Waiver/

http://www.dpor.virginia.gov/News/Press-Releases/2012/June-26/

WWWOOSSP Board Meeting

WWWOOSSP Board Meeting

When: Tuesday, July 10, 2012 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM

Where: DPOR, Perimeter Center, 2nd Floor

Description:

All meetings are open to the public and held at the Department of Professional and Occupational Regulation (DPOR), Perimeter Center, 9960 Mayland Drive, 2nd Floor, Richmond, Virginia, unless otherwise noted. Meeting duration is dependent on the agenda.  

Persons desiring to participate in meetings who require special accommodations or interpretative services should contact the Board Office at least 10 days prior to the meeting, so that suitable arrangements can be made for appropriate accommodation. DPOR fully complies with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA).

http://www.dpor.virginia.gov/CalendarEvent.aspx?dt=7/10/2012&id=1601&bcid=402

ad hoc adjustment

Is it a duck? Is it a rabbit?

"The subject of a gestalt demonstration knows that his perception has shifted because he can make it shift back and forth repeatedly while he holds the same book or piece of paper in his hands. Aware that nothing in his environment has changed, he directs his attention increasingly not to the figure (duck or rabbit) but to the lines of the paper he is looking at. Ultimately he may even learn to see those lines without seeing either of the figures, and he may then say (what he could not legitimately have said earlier) that it is these lines that he really sees but that he sees them alternately as a duck and as a rabbit. ... ." -- Thomas Kuhn, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (3rd ed., p.114).

Complexity Increasing Far More Rapidly Than Accuracy

"Given a particular discrepancy, astronomers were invariably able to eliminate it by making some particular adjustment in Ptolemy’s system of compounded circles. But... astronomy’s complexity was increasing far more rapidly than its accuracy and that a discrepancy corrected in one place was likely to show up in another." -- Thomas Kuhn, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (1970, p.68).

Very Few Men Desert a Tradition for These Reasons Alone

"... crisis alone is not enough. There must also be a basis, though it need be neither rational nor ultimately correct, for faith in the particular candidate chosen. Something must make at least a few scientists feel that the new proposal is on the right track, and sometimes it is only personal and inarticulate aesthetic considerations that can do that.... When first introduced, neither Copernicus’ astronomical theory nor De Broglie’s theory of matter had many other significant grounds of appeal. ... This is not to suggest that new paradigms triumph ultimately through some mystical aesthetic. On the contrary, very few men desert a tradition for these reasons alone. Often those who do, turn out to have been misled. But if a paradigm is ever to triumph it must gain some first supporters, men who will develop it to the point where hardheaded arguments can be produced and multiplied." -- Thomas Kuhn, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (1970, p.158).