Offers property owners
convenient access to critical permitting documents
The Rhode Island Department of Environmental Management (DEM)
has launched improved online access to onsite wastewater treatment system
[OWTS] (or "septic system") records, making it easier for property
owners to complete the permitting process and/or retrieve historical files.
These new features eliminate the need for customers to visit DEM
offices to access records in person.
The new online features include a downloadable Certificate of
Conformance for OWTS permitted, installed and approved for use (or
"conformed") after 1990.
Also, the full content of DEM's files for OWTS conformed before
1990 – previously stored on microfilm – are now available online.
Per Rhode Island law, OWTS cannot be used until a Certificate of
Conformance is issued. Approximately 1,500 systems are conformed annually in
Rhode Island.
More than 55,000 OWTS files for systems conformed before 1990,
and more than 50,000 Certificates of Conformance for systems conformed after
1990 are now available online.
Last year, more than 166,000 searches were conducted.
In addition to these new online services, the DEM website also
offers visitors the opportunity to complete a boat registration, apply for
fishing licenses, conduct environmental site searches and much more.
Visit www.dem.ri.gov/onlineservices for a complete list.
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