NAC444.8368. Chamber system: Inspections.

     1. The construction of an individual sewage disposal system that uses a chamber system must be inspected and verified by an engineer or, if the unit is designed by a homeowner as part of a residential system for his or her home, the homeowner. The inspections must be conducted as follows:

     (a) Following excavation, the bottom of each absorption trench or the bottom of the absorption bed, as appropriate, must be inspected to ensure that there is no loose soil and that no smearing conditions exist; and

     (b) Upon completion of the installation of the chambers in the absorption trenches or absorption bed, the individual sewage disposal system must be inspected to ensure that the chamber system and the trenches or bed, as appropriate, have been constructed and installed in accordance with the design plans.

     2. If a residential system that includes a chamber system is designed by a homeowner:

     (a) The homeowner shall contact the administrative authority for an inspection; and

     (b) The administrative authority shall inspect the construction of the residential system by conducting an on-site inspection or, at the discretion of the administrative authority, reviewing photographic documentation provided by the homeowner,

Ê before the covering is placed on the system, to ensure that the system complies with the approved plans.

     3. If an individual sewage disposal system is designed by an engineer, the engineer shall, within 30 days after the date on which the construction of the individual sewage disposal system is completed, submit a letter to the administrative authority stating the system was constructed in accordance with the approved plans.

     (Added to NAC by Bd. of Health by R129-98, eff. 3-25-99; A by R100-07, 10-31-2007)