Over three dozen local and regional real estate professionals attended the Chesapeake Bay & Rivers Association of Realtors membership meeting held last month at the American Legion in Gloucester.
Eager to hear information on how the new septic system regulations passed by the Virginia General Assembly would impact their businesses, the realtors ate a hearty catered breakfast and listened to speakers from the Virginia Department of Health and from sister companies Soils Inc. and Virginia Septic, which deal with soil evaluation and sewage disposal.
Environmental Health Supervisor Juli Wilkinson with VDH’s Three Rivers Health District explained that a new law that went into effect on July 1 (HB 2671) “raises the bar for professionalism for septic inspections” by changing requirements for the way inspections are conducted during real estate transactions, while an older law that was already in effect (HB 2322) moved oversight of pump-out requirements from localities to the Virginia Depa...