Please add my voice to that of Wetlands Watch in analyzing your regulations for septic systems:

• We strongly feel the prohibition against putting these systems in wetlands needs to remain. 
• We strongly feel that the required reductions in Nitrogen pollution in the Chesapeake Bay watershed need to remain:

Nitrogen in oceans is now know to have been underestimated by the IPCC by three hundred percent.  As a mega-green house gas, nitrous oxide -- which is created from nitrogen in the ocean -- is an air pollutant that must be limited immediately.

• We object to the continued allowance of these systems without any dry ground beneath them. 
• We object to allowing septic effluent to go directly into groundwater.

I urge you to consider climate change in every new regulation -- not contributing to it, and ameliorating the consequences.  At this point in time, we need to strengthen ecosystems, not challenge them with additional stresses.

Thank you for considering my comments,

Shelley Ottenbrite, 1809 W Grace St, Richmond VA 23220