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septic systems are obvious. Council meetings are filled with descriptions of the “squishy” areas of town, and frightening stories of what flows in the town’s drainage ditches.
“1 don’t need a study to tell me what’s in the ditch behind someone's house,’’ said Claudia Mitche}14aat week. ’' ■
With no definitive, objective study to detorndho the current condition of Washington’s septic situation, the council is left open to arguments that the problem could be corrected on a smaller, more individual scale. One of the council’s mam points is that the new wastewater system will help clean the Rush by treating the wastewater that now runs off from Washington’s failing drain fields and into the river, but
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