This regulation is adopted by the Yarmouth Board
of Health under the auspices of MGL c. 111, § 31.
This chapter applies to all proposed subsurface
sewage disposal systems within new subdivisions or within new ANR
plans submitted after the effective date of this regulation, on land
within Lake Recharge Areas (mapped for the Yarmouth Water Quality
Advisory Committee, 1988, and shown within the Water Resources Protection
Study by IEP, Inc.).
Proposed septic systems which cannot meet the
setbacks required in these regulations on lots which were created
prior to the effective date of this regulation are exempt from these
provisions.
Subsurface sewage disposal systems shall not
be located closer than 300 feet to the lake, pond, river and stream
shoreline (mean high water).