DOH wants to ban cesspools

[kalakoa]

It would lower equity by $10,000 on any property using a cesspool.

Some properties aren't even worth $10K....

[JohnDW]

geochem,

Okay, your point is well taken, but since the county issued permits overseen by engineers licensed by the State ... there needs to be grants for the conversion. That may be expensive, but so are protracted lawsuits.

Commercial composing toilets are great until they stop working. Other forms of composting toilets I'm familiar with require a great deal of vigilance; not everyone is up to the task. Then there are the moldering toilets ... How about we ship it off to Washington State?

[VancouverIslander]

A fair intermediate step for the time being would be to tone down the plans and just require all new construction to be septic fields or better. Perhaps at a later date they can start phasing out existing systems, but to one year allow new cess pit permits and the next year tell the owners that as soon as the property sells, it will require an expensive upgrade - that's hitting people in their wallets in a pretty unfair way.

[ckg]

While I completely agree with the environmental fix, there really needs to be some sort of reasonable transition plan. Seems like a very well meaning policy not grounded in any sort of reality to implement.

[kalakoa]

Seems like a very well meaning policy not grounded in any sort of reality to implement.

How like the PCDP ... a recurring theme around here.

[David M]

"reasonable" depends on which end of the $$$ you sit.

David

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[microage97]

IDK, I moved from the state of septic systems and lakes and streams were being polluted from the leach fields. I don't think they are much of an improvement over cesspools.