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Wilton noted that Health Department officials felt that using the same septic pump collection system but with the effluent carried to a small package treatment plant instead of a mound deserved consideration, especially since user fees for the always operational package plant would only be S2.88 per month more than with the 80-90 percent operational mound.
In addition, Wilson said, the consultant’s restudy didn’t address how the WSA would exercise authority and control over the system, leaving unanswered such questions as how individual septic tanks would be maintained and who would be responsible for pumping them out.
Coats Questioned
The SWCB also had’ questions over the costs cited in the study, specifically the estimates on the effluent pumps, according to Wilson. He noted that the consultants based their cost estimates on a system life of 40 years while a mound system can be expected to last only 20 years.
Wilson added that he’d sent a letter to the consultants outlining all these problems in May and had yet to receive an answer although he ribted that the engineers had been in touch with the SWCB’s Richmond office.
WSA member Bob Dennis responded that, as he understood Wilson’s explanation, “there are no tremendous problems with the engineering...no charges of totally bad planning.” He suggested that the WSA meet in Richmond with representatives from the SWCB, health department and consult anting firm to iron out difficulties in the sewer proposal before the SWCB’s meeting in late September. “We’re basically
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