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Kittitas County <br />Public Health <br />Department <br />To Protect and Promote the Health and the Environment of the People of Kittitas County <br />Mountain River Trails Appeal Hearing <br />Thursday December 15, 2016 <br />Mountain River Trails Appeal <br />Meeting Minutes <br />Commissioners' Auditorium <br />8:00 a.m. <br />Present <br />Board of Health (BOH): Laura Osiadacz, Paul Jewell, Rich Elliott <br />Public Health: Candi Blackford, Hollie Casey, Erin Moore, Robin Read, Kasey Knutson, Amy Fuller, <br />Tristen Lamb, Will Schwab, Liz Whitaker, Mark Larson, M.D. <br />Other: James Carmody, 230 S 2"d Street Yakima, WA, Mountain River Trails Camping Association <br />Representative, Neil Caulkins, Kittitas County Prosecuting Attorney <br />Meeting called to order at 8:43 a.m. <br />Rich Elliott opened the meeting for the Mountain River Trails Camping Association appeal to the Health <br />Order that was issued in August for health violations. <br />Neil Caulkins, Kittitas County Prosecuting Attorney, stepped to the microphone and gave a brief update <br />of prior events leading up to the appeal hearing and will show that under county code violations did <br />occur. The health department had received various complaints that resulted in an inspection of Mountain <br />River Trails Camping Association. Upon the inspection on August 10, 2016, the health department <br />observed wastewater from recreational vehicles being dumped directly onto the ground or into buckets <br />buried under ground rather than dumping into the septic systems. These violations are considered to be a <br />septic failure by definition and an immediate health risk. The State Health Department was notified and <br />brought about the information of the Federal Regulation that had to do with capacity for a campground <br />being approximately 30,000 gallons for state campgrounds, and the information on file from MRTCA <br />septic systems was not adequate. The Health Order that was effective August 25, 2016 required the <br />following: <br />• All wastewater within Mountain River Trails Campground be properly disposed of into septic <br />waste ports <br />• Any and all buckets or other buried wastewater receptacles must be removed or made inoperable <br />from the site within 14 days of receipt of order <br />