More than 20 years ago, the Cuyahoga County Board of Health started an onsite system inspection program. In this county surrounding Cleveland in north central Ohio, the Board of Health saw an opportunity and acted. “We were the first county in Ohio to conduct comprehensive onsite system inspections,” says Harry Stark, R.S., M.P.A., deputy director of environmental health services. “The county’s first entry into onsite management was through onsite system inspections at the time of real estate transfers.” About that time, the county also began requiring a treatment tank pump-out every three years.Today, the county has moved beyond those measures
