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County considers business model to pre-treat septic waste amid Lake George basin constraints
Summary
EDC staff described May 22 exploratory work on a proposed private 'middleman' business to pretreat pumped septic waste to ease capacity constraints for treatment plants and to support compliance with new septic inspection legislation; state DEC raised legal questions.
An Economic Development representative described May 22 an exploratory idea to address county-wide capacity constraints for handling septage generated by recent septic-inspection and upgrade legislation.
"Originally, I thought what we needed to do was to bring more septic players in. But the truth is the bottleneck is what to do with the waste that they pump out of a septic tank," the EDC representative said. The…
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