WICOMICO COUNTY TO OFFER FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE FOR SEPTIC SYSTEM

(Salisbury, MD) – The Wicomico County Department of Environmental Health is pleased to announce that it has received a $355,000 award from the Maryland Department of the Environment’s Chesapeake Bay
Restoration Fund. The money will be used to upgrade septic systems with technology that will reduce nutrients entering our county’s groundwater. “Our priority is to upgrade failing septic systems inside the Chesapeake Bay’s Critical Areas. This will not only improve our community’s groundwater, but will also improve the Bay’s overall health. We are excited to provide some financial assistance to our county”, says Dennis DiCintio, Director of Environmental Health. County properties inside the Critical Areas that are currently experiencing a failing system are eligible for 100% financing. Other properties are subject to a sliding scale based on the property owner’s 2010 taxable income.

For questions, or for an application, county residents may call the Wicomico County Health Department Environmental Health Department at (410) 546-4446 or visit http://www.wicomicohealth.org/.