See and hear your Council in Action! Link to the EARN (End Arrogant Rule Now) web site -- www.earnmarco.com
Tune in to Marco Island's own Internet Radio Station -- A new program every Monday evening rebroadcast for a week: http://www.marcoislandtalkradio.com/
The Executive Summary gives a good overview. The first four chapters explain why EPA supports onsite wastewater management and the problems we face in getting our local government to listen. Makes interesting reading! Not much in Chapter 5. There are also a series of appendices that are not listed here. To access the EPA’s main web site for onsite wastewater management, click: http://cfpub.epa.gov/owm/septic/publications.cfm?sort=date_published&view=doctype_results&document_type_id=1
You will find the 1997 report halfway down the primary web site.
The following web site from the University of West Virginia (the EPA's academic center for onsite wastewater management) includes an interesting history of wastewater treatment beginning with the first flush toilets of Minoan Crete, through 19th-century European sewers, to cesspools and pre-1970s septic systems, to modern day onsite wastewater treatment. Learn how septic systems on 50’ by 50’ lots adjacent to a recreational lake in New Jersey protect the environment because they are properly managed. Learn how one town avoided the destructive impact of sewers by instituting a proper management program for their septic systems. http://www.nesc.wvu.edu/nodp/pdf/Wastewater.pdf
From the Water Info Center, a straightforward easy-to-understand explanation of why properly managed standard septic systems are appropriate long-term solutions to wastewater treatment. “The Standard Septic System: Still an Effective Choice for Onsite Wastewater Treatment” October 2002 http://www.infiltratorsystems.com/pdfs/WEM_10_02.pdf
Analysis of bills introduced into the Florida State legislature requiring municipalities contemplating new sewer systems and/or expansion of existing systems to provide each citizen with an analysis of the relative cost of the proposed central sewer system versus alternative wastewater treatment including onsite and cluster systems. The bills also provide each citizen who presently has an approved advanced treatment system or a properly functioning conventional onsite system (septic) to opt NOT to connect to the central sewer. Click on the following link: http://www.myfloridahouse.gov/Sections/Documents/loaddoc.aspx?FileName=h0749.ENVR.doc&DocumentType=Analysis&BillNumber=0749&Session=2006
And you think we have problems! Up the coast in Venice, heads have rolled, the mayor has decided to resign, the City is about to plea bargain with the EPA to settle their suit, fines could top a million bucks ... and all they did was dump perfectly good reuse water into a creek where it wasn't supposed to go. That's reuse water that could legally be used for irrigation ... not "reject" water that is not sufficiently purified to be used for irrigation. And we filled in our reject-water pond and regularly dump reuse water (and now without the pond "reject" water) down our deep injection well. Go figure how we can get permission to do that and these guys in Venice face fines and possible jail terms! (An interesting site found by Walt Daleske.) Venice Florida! -The second EPA Shade meeting.htm