Legislation SB 0400 and SB0123
By Jim Salway on Friday, February 3rd, 2012 |
Good afternoon,
I wish to state that I do not want any waters, potable or recreational, to be polluted. I support reasonable restrictions on my freedoms and reasonable actions to maintain a healthy and safe environment. If someone has a failing or failed on-site septic systems they should immediately correct that condition! In 1997 the US EPA and Congress issued a finding that private on-site septic systems that were properly sited, installed and maintained, provided homeowners a viable method to dispose of waste. Many professionals have written that a system utilizing the above and functioning properly does no harm to the environment. Some write that this simple system, utilizing nature and no energy, is so remarkable that the process evades human reasoning or understanding. The state code defines a failed or failing on-site septic system.
Many Regional Waste Districts, in my opinion, are so intent in eliminating all on-site systems, regardless of working status, that they disregard the opinions of the EPA and others. The EPA and others, as I read the information, are of the opinion that adding sewers alone will not improve the water quality. Property owners must become educated in managing on-site septic or absorption systems.
There are two bills in Indiana Senate to correct a legislative action that allowed sewer districts unchecked powers that allowed them to force a homeowner to connect and pay fees, even if the homeowner's septic system is operating properly. Here in this district, the fine for not connecting, when they pass within 300 feet of your property is $500.00 per day. Several hundred homeowners have had liens placed on their property and these are on the block at Sheriff's sale. Senate Bill 0400 provides that a non-profit sewer district may not require a property owner to connect to its sewer system and discontinue use if that system is functioning satisfactorily as determined by the local health department. Senate Bill 0123 requires that the board of trustees of a regional sewer district must be elected. If your system is in a state of failure, as I read the bill, a homeowner would be required correct any deficiencies or connect.
I ask that you contact your respective senator, Majority Whip Brandt Herschman, Assistant Majority Whip Travis Holdman and make your voice heard for the cause of freedom. The telephone number for the Indiana State House is 800-382-9467, email to www.in/gov or write to 200 W. Washington Street, Indianapolis, IN 46204.
You can also sign a statewide petition opposing mandatory sewer connection using http://indianafreedoms.org.
Thank you.
Jim Salway
Fremont, IN
260-833-1739
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