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combe may be good for septic tanks but danger from flooding prohibits their use for homes. There also may be small areas in these flood plain soils that could be made satisfactory for septic field use but the cost would be great.
Recently there have been proposals that houses be built in the flood plain with sewer systems (septic fields) located outside the flood plain area. However, such systems would still cause problems, unless they were located far enough away on land sloping away from the flood plain area. If not, the effluent would lead down hill to the flood plain soil and into the ground water table. Also any well drilled in flood plain soil would be subject to contamination from non-point source pollution, i.e. run-off of agricultural waste and toxic chemicals, etc.
The above rationale presents compelling reasons why the Planning Commission and the Board of Supervisors should not change the zoning ordinance and allow buildings to be constructed in the floodplain.
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