What are Our Options for Sewage Disposal?
A Municipal water treatment plant is not an option at any time in the future. Generally, our options are few: we need clean groundwater, and we must continue to rely on private waste treatment systems – septic systems. We must build and maintain these systems while understanding that they eventually feed our drinking water, and therefore we must do our utmost to see they are well designed and located sufficiently distant from groundwater sources so the waste is properly filtered before it rejoins the towns source of drinking water. In the end it remains the individual homeowners responsibility to manage each homes waste responsibly. Recommendations • The town should develop an educational program for residents, particularly new residents, to educate them about water and waste. We need to emphasize the importance of water quality, how it is finite, renewable, and subject to pollution from domestic waste. • The town should institute a program to monitor the change in static water level i
