The Idaho Department of Environmental Quality is revising the Technical Guidance Manual for builders and septic system installers. The process started in spring with a public comment period. According to a department news release, the changes “address practices and policies of the Technical Guidance Committee, setbacks from drainfields to cutoff trenches, horizontal separation distances, permitting and design requirements for alternative public and private subsurface sewage disposal systems, and approval conditions and compost disposal requirements for composting toilet units.” The proposed revisions are available for download on the DEQ website: http://www.deq.idaho.gov/news-archives/2013/may/water-tgm-revisions-comment-050613.aspx.IllinoisAfter flooding in April, officials in Lake County waved and cut
