11-01-2006, 06:07 AM
It might be helpful to know what the county requires and what the county does. My experience is that complaints are accepted, but follow-up and follow-through may not occur in my life-time.
For example, a neighbor lives in a long standing unpermitted structure. Friends dug a cesspool for him. There are no county records of either the dwelling or cesspool. The Health Department fellow told me to call when I saw the cesspool being used.
I guess we are supposed to use binoculars, note down date and time and call somebody...
Applicable County codes, their enforcement, and the beaurocratic follow-up don't always jive.
Apparently there is a division of responsibility between the Health Deparment and the Department of Sanitation.
So, in the discussion of allowing or disallowing cesspools and requiring septic systems, all the requirements would mean nothing if there was no follow through by whatever agency is charged to follow through.
For example, a neighbor lives in a long standing unpermitted structure. Friends dug a cesspool for him. There are no county records of either the dwelling or cesspool. The Health Department fellow told me to call when I saw the cesspool being used.
I guess we are supposed to use binoculars, note down date and time and call somebody...
Applicable County codes, their enforcement, and the beaurocratic follow-up don't always jive.
Apparently there is a division of responsibility between the Health Deparment and the Department of Sanitation.
So, in the discussion of allowing or disallowing cesspools and requiring septic systems, all the requirements would mean nothing if there was no follow through by whatever agency is charged to follow through.