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to see what happens to Sen. Marye’s bill in the House before he pushes his in the Senate.
Sen. Marye said that in his area, Southwest Virginia near Roanoke, house construction has been slowed because of difficulty in obtaining septic permits, and many haulers who have spread the waste on land before have no place to dump it.
Under the 1982 regulations, haulers have to dump the waste either in a public sewage system or in holding lagoons, but the state also made its specifications for lagoons more stringent and expensive to meet.
Not all public sewer plants, especially those operated by small towns, can handle the “septage,” because its concentrated strength can kill the bacteria necessary for the anaerobic treatment of the waste.
So Sen. Marye has introduced another bill, which also has passed the Senate, that would require new sewage treatment plants to have the capability of accepting and treating septic wastes.
It faces some opposition from the Virginia Municipal League, which doesn’t want to impose new costs on municipalities that want to build sewage treatment plants, especially as federal money to help those projects continues to dwindle.
The bill’s message to local government is, “We’re telling you to do it, but we’re not going to give you any funds to do it,” said Jim Campbell ofVML.
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