Great Lakes Echo (http://greatlakesecho.org/tag/septage/)
When it comes to regulating septic systems, Michigan is a loner.
It lacks statewide regulations to oversee the permitting and operations for close to 1.5 million of the onsite systems that dispose of human waste.
Legislation has passed and enforcement tightened. Yet leaking septic tanks continue to threaten human and environmental health.
The lack of funds to fix them remain a hurdle.
The upkeep to keep septic tanks from failing and polluting water is expensive, especially with the growing restrictions on how to dump their contents.
(MI) Traverse City Record-Eagle – In the end, imposing a county wide fee on septic tank owners is probably the surest monetary solution to Grand Traverse County’s long-running septage plant saga. But that doesn’t mean taxpayers will like it or that it should be imposed on them by a political body that is neither representative of or answerable to many property owners who will pay the price. More