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A change that’s being pitched to Teton County regulations would allow septic systems and leach fields to be located closer to the community’s largest flowing waters.
Currently, there is a buffer on the books that prohibits putting sewage treatment infrastructure within 150 feet of Teton County rivers, including the Snake, Buffalo Fork, Gros Ventre and Hoback. While revising the county’s small wastewater facility rules, engineer Ted Van Holland proposed eliminating the special “watercourse protection district” regulation, shrinking the river buffer down to 50 feet — the standard for other natural surface waters.
“We think that this is the better way to go,” said Van Holland, who added that any effect septic system effluent is having on Jackson Hole’s largest rivers, which carry hundreds or thousands of cubic feet of water per second, is negligible. ....

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