cesspools just got more interesting

[kalakoa]

http://www.westhawaiitoday.com/2018/03/0...discharge/

The Feb. 1 ruling by the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals said sewer systems that discharge effluent into the ocean, even if it arrives there through groundwater, are required to have a National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) permit.

Ruling here:

http://cdn.ca9.uscourts.gov/datastore/op...-17447.pdf

One analysis here:

http://lawprofessors.typepad.com/environ...tanks.html

Entirely possible (but as yet not litigated; no ruling nor precedent set) that a septic system would qualify as a "point source" and therefore be subject to regulation under the Clean Water Act.

State really should have gotten out in front of this, but of course it's always easier to find funding for an "emergency" and/or "Federal compliance".

[alaskyn66]

When they stop leaking county sewage in the ocean I catch fish out of.. I'll worry about my cesspool.

Okay Google... Who are these people and why ain't they working?

[HereOnThePrimalEdge]

leaking county sewage in the ocean

Honolulu leaked 8.7 million gallons of sewage into the ocean a few weeks ago. It would take a whole lot of cesspools a long, long time to add up to that amount of effluent. And cesspools have some amount of filtration, not direct runoff pouring into the sea. Maybe it would be easier to fix one giant problem, rather than thousands of smaller problems?

Recycle Puna. Humans, although probably not you personally, have already left 400,000 pounds of trash on the moon. - YouTube's Half As Interesting

[Obie]

"Environmental Management Director Bill Kucharski said the island’s cesspools pose a far greater risk, accounting for about 15 million gallons of waste a day, compared to about 3 million gallons per day for the county’s seven wastewater treatment plants."

My neighborhood has been in the forefront of eliminating cesspools.The county has an ordinance that requires people to upgrade their septic if they remodel in our neighborhood.

They didn't enforce their own rule !

Our water association started requiring a septic upgrade if a change of water user occurred, some of us upgraded on our own.

I spent about $12,000.00 having my cesspool removed and had the latest greatest septic installed !

Voluntarily !

I live further from the ocean than some people in HPP.