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people to typhoid fever, hepatitis A, dysentery, acute gastrointestinal illness, cholera, etc.

Third, people abuse these systems. They flush anything and everything down a toilet, or overburden their system, destroying it over time. Replacing a failed or failing septic system can cost the same as the price range of a car, from inexpensive to a luxury model.

And fourth, onsite/decentralized wastewater systems are generally hard to regulate. They are on private property. Making sure such systems meet performance requirements and do not fail, thus creating environmental and public health problems, is critical.

Looking

back at waste

Since the late 1970s, ways and means of solving the growing dilemma of what to do with wastewater in suburban and rural areas has proceeded in fits and starts. An interesting article in the Winter 2005 issue of the “Small Flows Quarterly,” summarized the steps taken since the late

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