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LCC : 3-14-90 SA-89-45 Page 5 "2 (b) Septic system to be designed by a registered engineer . " Appeal Statement : In his appeal regarding the above two conditions, Mr . Burgess states that "The requirements are not only a death sentence to our proposal , but (even if the City should approve a septic system for sewer disposal) environmentally unsound. As indi- cated inthe Geotechnical Report #20-3273-01 , (Kleinfelder 1990) , ground water is only 20 ' below grade several places on our site . This, after 3 years of drought ! ! To discharge effluent after only primary treatment into an already polluted ground water basin is certainly unwise . We have no desire to add to ground water degradation, and therefore, request that these items be modified to specifically forbid the discharge o: less than tertiarily treated effluent or alternative sewage disposal that is equally environmentally sound. " I sponse : e decision to require the project to connect to a sewer stem or to allow it to use a private interim system is a City Lathrop policy decision. The applicant states that a septic.nk system would degrade groundwater quality further , but thevironmental Health Division does not concur with this state- nt . The applicant is proposing an interim holding tank stem that would be pumped out periodically . A holding tanb_stem would be acceptable to the Environmental Health Division the system is designed adequately for a specified number ofployees and for a specific time period . ronmental Health Division Condition No . III . 3 . and Sharpe Army Depot Condition No. VII . 2_: "3 . Any existing wells or septic tanks must be destroyed under permit and inspection by the Environmental Health Division . "2 . No water wells are to be allowed on the property . " Appeal Statement : In his appeal , Mr . Burgess states the following regarding the Environmental Health Division Condition and the Sharpe Army Depot Condition: "These items require that the farming now taking place on the remaining 50+ acres of our site be ter- minated and the family doing that farming be displaced ! ! We would hope that these drastic and grim actions are not really the desire of Planning, Health, or even Sharpe Army Depot ! We would propose that no new wells be allowed to serve any use of