SB2567 Cesspool upgrade required for house sales

[Eric1600]

A bill appears to be moving quickly through the legislators offices (passed Senate, now in house) requiring all houses sold in Hawaii to be upgraded to septic within 180 days with the agent negotiating the upgrade costs between buyers and sellers.

As we know here on the Big Island there's not enough contractors to even make this possible, assuming it goes into law.

http://www.hawaiitribune-herald.com/2018...cesspools/

SB 2567 would, if passed, require sellers of a property that included a cesspool to upgrade the cesspool, at cost, by connecting to a sewer system or install a septic tank. This upgrade would be required to occur within an as-yet-undetermined length of time after the purchase, although an earlier draft of the bill specified 180 days.

According to the bill, upgrading a cesspool costs, on average, $20,000.

[PaulW]

Good business opportunity for some.

[tweez]

180 days is not realistic - Start to finish, ours took 9 months and we started the process immediately upon closing.

[Midnight Rambler]

Everyone should be submitting testimony against this. It disproportionately harms Puna and Hilo, since it targets priority areas 1-3 (including all of the Puna subdivisions and the area around Hilo, but not including the north side of highway 11 - ironically where the actual drinking water wells are), but the tax credits are only available to those within 200 feet of the ocean, a wetland, or a water source.

The next hearing is on Tuesday so testimony has to be in by Monday!

[kalakoa]

It disproportionately harms Puna and Hilo

As well it should -- all those "private" subdivisions were allowed with no infrastructure, because "it's for ag".

[Kapoho Joe]

And there it is.

[terracore]

We have more important things to spend our money on, like Oahu's rail project.

[HereOnThePrimalEdge]

spend our money on, like Oahu's rail project.

And the legislature won't let us piss on that either.

I said, ‘Wrong, Justin (Trudeau), you do.’ I didn’t even know. ... I had no idea. I just said, ‘You’re wrong.’ - President Donald J. Trump, 3/14/18

[MattKarma]

It would seriously compound the trash problem; people who buy property and allow the garbage to pile up, because they plan on never selling it; I.E land value goes way down.

***Still can't figure out how to spell 'car' correctly***

[kalakoa]

And the legislature won't let us piss on that either.

But there will be piss in/around it once it becomes a de facto homeless shelter.