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Trapped between two municipalities, two sewer authorities, the state Department of Environmental Protection and Pucketa Creek, about 35 property owners in northern Murrysville may see a resolution to their long-standing sanitary sewer problems, if the various agencies work together.

At last weeks council meeting, chief administrator Jim Morrison told council that some properties along Pucketa Creek on Greensburg Road/Route 366 have a problem because they cannot tap into the nearby sanitary sewer line, which is across the creek in Washington Township.

The sewer line is owned by the Municipal Authority of Washington Township, and sewerage is pumped to the Kiski treatment plant in Vandergrift. Murrysville residents are served by the Franklin Township Municipal Sewer Authority and there is no service agreement that allows Washington Township to serve Murrysville.

As a result, homeowners with failing septic systems have nowhere to turn.

Unable to sell his house because the septic system was discharging sewerage in the creek, Jim Copal of Greensburg Road said he appealed to the DEP for assistance. Last month, the agency consented to allow Mr. Copal to connect to the sewer line, provided both sewer authorities and both municipal governments agree.

In a letter dated Oct. 3, Jack Crislip, a clean water specialist for the DEP, acknowledged that all four of the responsible entities have preliminarily agreed to allow Mr. Copal to connect to the Washington authoritys sewer. However, DEP recommended that the municipalities revise their respective Act 537 plans to address the needs of all homes in the Pucketa Creek watershed. All municipalities in the state are required to submit an Act 537 plan to the state DEP, defining how the municipality handles sewage within its borders. The municipality is responsible to ensure that no sewage facilities, public or private, pollute any waters.

As part of the process, DEP has recommended that a study be done todetermine the capacity of the Kiski treatment plant,identify homes with malfunctions,perform a cost analysis of an alternative solution and do an environmental impact assessment.

Mr. Morrison estimated that the cost of the study would be between $25,000 and $50,000.

There has been an ongoing, and at times contentious, dialogue among Murrysville, Franklin and Washiington authorities about the Pucketa Creek watershed. To service homes in this area, the Franklin authority historically preferred to build a new 3-mile-long gravity feed line that would connect to the New Kensington treatment plant. According to Franklin authority manager James Brucker, reaching an agreement between the two sewer authorities is the problem.

Ive tried. I spent probably $20,000 in attorneys fees to get this done, Mr. Brucker said. Ive offered them anything they want, with one caveat: that if we ever get a line in to service the area, then those customers would come back into our system. The hang up is in Washington Township.

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CLEVELAND Its taken 45 years, but the jokes about the river burning in Cleveland have faded.

Now they cant be replaced by jokes about Lake Erie being the only great lake where you cant drink the water.

We dont want to be the butt of late night comedians again, says Rep. Dave Hall, the Republican chairman of the Ohio House Agriculture and Natural Resources Committee.

Hall, whose district stretches from Millersburg north to Brunswick, says the first concern is public safety, and the second is an image problem that can impede economic development in a region that appears poised on the brink of a comeback.

Halls committee will hold hearings to look at what to do to prevent a repeat of what happened last summer in Toledo.

For an entire weekend, close to half a million people living in and near Toledo couldnt drink their water for fear that an algae bloom on Lake Erie had rendered it toxic.

The concern was over a bloom that produced microcystin a toxin that in too high of amounts can lead to liver and stomach problems.

Julius Ciaccia, Executive Director of the Northeast Ohio Regional Sewer District, warns that without change, the region is doing worse than playing with fire its playing with its source of drinking water.

(The blooms) will come again, just like the river burned, he says.

There are three main sources of the pollution that leads to the blooms: storm water overflows, faulty septic systems, and farm fertilizer runoff.

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Riley Industrial worker Jorge Acero, on Monday hooks up a hose to drain a pond off Murray Drive east of the Wastewater Treatment Plant in Farmington. The pond was contaminated with raw sewage. (Alexa Rogals The Daily Times)

FARMINGTON A pumping station malfunctioned Sunday morning in Farmington allowing raw sewage to seep across a field and into a pond connected to the Animas River, which already exceeds state standards for a bacterium associated with human waste.

Public Works Director David Sypher said the sewage, diluted after washing more than 600 feet across the field, reached the river, "and that's why we're pumping out the pond."

Assistant City Manager Bob Campbell said Wednesday afternoon he expected the pond to be pumped dry and refilled with clean water by the end of the day. The field was disinfected on Sunday, he said.

City officials alerted down-stream river users on Sunday, he said.

Officials are uncertain how much waste leaked into the river.

"They are still trying to determine that number," said Jeff Smaka, city water and wastewater administrator.

What officials do know is two of the three pumps at the facility malfunctioned sometime Sunday morning. They are still trying to determine the timeline, Smaka said.

Pump stations are built in valleys and other depressions where gravity can't pull sewage downhill. The lift stations pump the waste up hill, where it can begin flowing down again.

When the first pump in the station off Murray Drive stopped working because of an electrical failure the second pump should have switched on, but it didn't. Smaka doesn't know for certain why, but he thinks scum could have interfered with a float, preventing it from turning on and sounding an alarm.

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By BRAD RICH

Tideland News Writer

The town of Cedar Point and the Onslow Water and Sewer Authority are engaged in early but serious talks about extending sewer service to the town from Swansboro.

Billy Joe Farmer, executive director of the Onslow utility company, and Jim Allen, a Swansboro commissioner who is on the ONWASA board of directors, met with the Cedar Point Board of Commissioners and Town Administrator Chris Seaberg during a work session in town hall on Oct. 23.

According to all three men, the talks were informative and productive, and Seaberg said the next step for the town board is to decide whether to amend and/or expand a 2012 sewer feasibility study done for the town by The Wooten Company.

Seaberg, Allen and Farmer all said there is a long way to go before the discussion could bear fruit. Farmer, for example, said he had not even brought the idea formally to his board. But Allen, who Farmer praised as knowledgeable, said he personally favored the idea of ONWASA seriously exploring the possibility.

I think it would be good for us (ONWASA) and good for them (the town), he said. It would be good for the environment there are a lot of septic tanks and (private package) treatment plants in Cedar Point and good for the White Oak River, which divides Swansboro, in Onslow County, and Cedar Point, in Carteret.

Seaberg said the board, during that Oct. 23 work session, agreed to think about the idea and discuss it more in November.

It obviously is a big step, and if we did decide to move ahead, wed have to go to the state and get them involved, he said. But there are a lot of people in town who in surveys have said they want sewer.

That Wooten study, which cost town $26,000, including a grant from the N.C. Rural Center, and $19,600 in town funds, strongly recommended that the town pursue a partnership with other local governments or agencies, such as Cape Carteret or ONWASA, if it wanted to get into the provision of sewer service to residents, businesses or both.

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The community of Luther is making progress in finding a solution to the towns sewer problems, thanks to the efforts of a committee that has been meeting weekly.

During a special council meeting Thursday night, the committee, led by Tanya Doyle, who co-owns BFE Vintage Motorcycles in Luther with her husband, gave the Luther City Council an update on the committees progress and findings.

Rather than going along with the councils proposed city-wide sewer project and ordinance, the committee has come up with a potential solution that will be more favorable to residents. The committee is proposing each resident or property owner in Luther should be responsible for bringing the septic system on their property up to compliance with Boone County regulations. Members of the committee canvassed the town, checking with property owners to see if their septic systems were in compliance. As a result, the committee came up with a list of 37 properties in the town where it is unknown if those properties septic systems are in compliance.

In addition to the sewer issues, the town wants to resolve the drainage issues that have caused headaches for residents for a number of years. After speaking with the Iowa Department of Natural Resources, the committee learned that if the town repairs and cleans the existing tile, the drainage issues could be resolved. Therefore, the committee is proposing the council approves a plan to clean all existing tiles, repair all broken tiles and add additional tile or increased tile sizes where necessary. The committee also wants the city to pass an ordinance that adopts the Iowa state septic code.

I cannot see why the residents of Luther would be against this, Doyle said of the committees proposals.

Doyle also discussed the $370,000 I-JOBS grant the city obtained and needs to use by next year. After doing some research into the grant, the committee discovered the grant would cover 23 percent of the total project expense. Construction permits would need to be obtained and project plans would need to be approved by Jan. 30, 2015, with all work completed by June 30, 2015, in order to use the grant money. The individuals Doyle has talked to have voiced willingness to work with the community so they can still make use of the grant money.

Council member Erica Herold pointed out that the town may be able to use the I-JOBS grant to pay off a state revolving fund loan used for services provided by MSA Professional Services, a Des Moines engineering firm. MSA was contracted to design a sewer system plan for the town.

After much discussion, Herold requested the Luther sewer project be put on the next council meeting agenda, stating she would be in favor of abandoning it so the town can move forward with the committees proposed plan. No action was taken on the committees proposed plan during Thursday nights meeting.

The next Luther City Council meeting will be Thursday, Nov. 13, at 7 p.m. in Luther City Hall.

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Voters in Mill Bay won't be pondering any surprises from unfamiliar candidates before marking their ballots in the civic election Nov. 15.

The positions of both incumbent Mike Walker and challenger Kerry Davis for the job of representing Area A on the Cowichan Valley Regional District board are well-known.

Current director Walker served two terms from 2002 through 2008 before taking a break and then returning for another term from 2011 until the present.

Davis ran for the Green Party in the provincial election last year, losing the seat to the NDP's Bill Routley.

Walker vows to continue on the same path as the last several years and residents know what to expect from him. There are some significant issues at the front of his long list of duties that need attention.

"For me, I've been focusing on our storm water management and sewer issues,'' Walker said.

"We're finding some of our older subdivisions here in Mill Bay, septic systems are starting to go.''

With that in mind, Walker would like to see something similar to what's being done in the Capital Regional District where there's a mandatory pump-out required within a certain period of time and charges are added to taxes.

"A lot of our residents are on that eastern slope and everything goes to the water,'' Walker said of the importance the issue places on the environment.

"With the heavy rain, it really becomes a concern.''

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PORT CHARLOTTE, Fla.- In an effort to keep Southwest Florida's water clean, residents are being told they need to shell out $10,000 to convert their septic tanks to county sewer.

Most of the area affected is in the Spring Lake community.

"We believe it's going to improve the water quality in Charlotte Harbor," said engineer Bruce Bullert.

Homes that have septic tanks will be required to hook up to the county sewer.

The county will receive a total of $3.3 million dollars in grants from the state.

"A lot of these homes were built a number of years ago. A lot of the on-site systems are really quite old and because of that, a lot of them have seen their life," said Bullert.

"We had the option of the sewer or the septic so we took the sewer," said resident Richard Martin.

Unlike Martin, many of the approximately 1,500 homeowners that live in the area northwest of the Spring Lake boatramp will have to pay to transfer from septic to county sewer.

Many homeowners say they cannot afford the change.

Utility officials say they are looking for ways to help reduce the cost.

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YORKSHIRE Water is appealing for information over the illegal discharge of waste into the public sewer network at Sinnington.

An unknown tanker is understood to be parking near Elmsall House Farm at about 10pm and discharging what appears to be septic tank waste or grease trap waste.

The illegal discharges are blocking the pumps at the sewage pumping station, causing the station to fail.

Fran Winter, for Yorkshire Water, said their contractors were having to to clean the pumping station out monthly.

We are not sure who is making these illegal discharges, but there are only a select number of companies authorised to carry out work at this pumping station and the network and they would not be there at 10pm unless the pumps blocked at night and then there would be a Yorkshire Water vehicle there too, he said.

Anyone who sees anything suspicious should make a note of the date, time, location and vehicle and phone 07790 617817 or email frances.winter@yorkshirewater.co.uk

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As groundwater contamination problems go, the stuff leaking from septic systems isnt terribly sexy. Give me a gas stations leaking underground storage tank any day, or an old electronics plant, or Kirtland Air Force Bases sloppy aviation fuel handling. That I can get excited about.

But waste leaking from an aging home septic system?

That, says University of New Mexico engineering professor Bruce Thomson, is precisely the problem.

Its groundwater contamination thats happening all around us, and were not paying any attention, said Thomson, an expert in treating human waste who delights in describing his academic specialty as turd mechanics.

Septic systems drain away household waste into settling tanks, with the water spilling out into drain fields and the natural filtration of the soil doing the cleanup work. But when they dont work because homes are packed too closely together, or the systems are old or poorly maintained, contamination can result. The key problem is nitrates, which can render water dangerous to infants.

Nitrate contamination from leaking septic systems is a problem statewide, and here in Bernalillo County, and its contamination thats entirely preventable, said Bernalillo County Commissioner Maggie Hart Stebbins.

This evening, the Bernalillo County Commission will take a fresh stab at tightening the rules to try to reduce the risk, a combination of inspections of aging systems and rules that push some septic system owners to hook up to the regions municipal sewer system if that is an option.

As currently proposed, the ordinance would:

The ordinance, pushed by Hart Stebbins, has been bouncing around for more than a year, delayed by opponents concerns because of the way the cost of compliance falls on homeowners.

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