re - Septic Program

Glenn England | Mar 22, 2017

As I read these sales pitches on how crucial it is that I get my septic tank pumped out and inspected, a few questions come up.  Is the Township going to give every truck driver from every pumping service within a certain radius of this township a course on septic  tank inspections?  It states that “no program is free, there will be some costs.”  DO YOU THINK?

Now, every five years, I have an unrequested service that I must pay for on my private property  that has been riddled with holes from someone looking for my septic tank lid, my financial being may be in the hands of a truck driver with this licence, that my tax dollars have paid for and a green, yellow or red color coded whatever.  IS THIS EVEN LEGAL?

Am I writing out a cheque for 4, 5, 6 hundred + GST? (There goes eating this month for many).

There have been outhouses,  barrels punched full of holes and all kinds of homemade systems, not to mention the many farms that use to be operating in this “fractured bedrock, limited soil overburden” township for generations.  I wonder how many on this committee have ever seen a barnyard in the spring? There are very few left today to what there once was, but I dare say,  there was a greater threat of water contaminations 30 or more years ago than now, and can’t recall any outbreak of disease.
In my view, this would be a huge expense for minimal results, which most can’t afford nor should have to.  These types of ideas come from the same mentality as the provincial liberal’s green energy fiasco, and we all know how that is working out for us.