Got Septic? New Distributed community Septic System discussed at Lake County, FL Board meeting March 22, 2022

Got Septic?

 

If you have a septic tank or considering a replacement, or buying a new home outside city limits, you need water and sewage connections.

 

A new "Septic to Distributed System" method for new homes and small developments (50 homes per system) that do not have direct access to city sewage systems was discussed at yesterday's (Mar. 22, 2022) Lake County Board meeting. You can watch the tab 30 agenda item meeting video by going to the Lake County website, clicking and scrolling to about 1 hour, 55 minutes and watch it, plus you can click the agenda tab and scroll to tab 30 to see the agenda documents.

 

This new system was solicited by the Lake County Board to reduce pressure for developers to annex into cities and approve HIGH-density homes to justify costs for city proviced sewer pipelines. Instead, they found a vendor ( http://www.onsyte.com/ ) that can provide small, stand-alone, more advanced community septic systems.  They also had an earlier presentation by the vendor several months ago.  They were the only ones to respond to a request for proposal. 

 

They are not discussing mandating these for older homes with septic tanks (at this time).

 

Both Lake County and Howey-in-the-Hills obtained $400,000 grants to implement pilot systems and they also discussed coordinating their processes to develop a model system for installing such systems. 

 

Click the link below to see the County video. Scroll to tab 30 in the agenda, and scroll to about 1 hour, 55 minutes in the video to see that discussion. 

https://lakecountyfl.civicclerk.com/Web/Player.aspx...

 

Vance Jochim

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