Onsite Sewage Treatment Program

Manual Revision Process

The OSTP Team is partnering with the MPCA, industry professionals, and local regulators to revise the Professional Workshop Manual. We plan to have a draft manual by Spring 2007.

Follow the progress of the Manual Revision Committee and submit comments to septic@umn.edu.

Committee Meetings

The Committee was asked to fill out a questionnaire before attending their first meeting.

Click here to see the results of the questionnaire

Inaugural Meeting Agenda

Meeting Minutes

Manual Revision Progress

The OSTP Team reviewed the comments and suggestions of the Revision Committee and have created the following draft manual outline. Click here to view the proposed outline. (pdf, 17 KB) UPDATED!

The team then reviewed the MPCA's Need-to-Know documents and expanded the outline substantially in order to ensure that all required material was included in the new manual. Click here to view the expanded outline. Click here to view the expanded outline (pdf, 210 KB). UPDATED!

Submit comments to septic@umn.edu.

Revision Schedule

Date

Task

5/19/06

Detailed manual outline complete

5/12/06 - 5/25/06

Illustrator provides various color options, curved dashed pointers vs. curved straight pointers, and three updated illustrations

5/25/06

Manual working team to discuss and approve detailed outline and begin providing existing manual references for graphic designer

6/16/06

Very rough draft of detailed outline and corresponding existing
manual references all together

6/06 - 1/07

Identify and rework what is there, what needs to be updated, and what needs to be added

1/07 - 4/08

Write new content, place new illustrations, and develop final draft manual for comment