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<br /> --s'...I.-- -----.:::.-•,•- 'A. :1 7-:::.... .: some weird; isolated case. But according to-; ' . , .. . .. ._. •
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<br /> • • ---.4-- - .. -.-- both engineers and regulators,residential sew- - -• . :.
<br /> age-systems throughout the Triangle are be- Th. *; developer, Bob King, and various.real : • .. _:„-- .
<br /> coming increasingly undependable.e. 1 - estate agenti continued selling empty lots and• • _
<br /> • • Home buyers can't foresee the problem. (d DEM continued writing home-loan offi-.
<br /> waded through hundreds of documents and . . ..
<br /> - --.. •dozens of interviews for two weeks before .cersshoapeth.that ibnyg'sFebruaagery 11;m87,itproblems wasin gohoadd.*
<br /> • ' understood it.) It-'tan cost developers and.: reached such overwhelming proportions that •
<br /> homeowners a bundle.And our bodyguards in Dennis Osborne,the developer's's soil engineer,- - . •._
<br /> ' government often sit paralyzed. - .: ..- . wrote,."I am not certain this system can be
<br /> TOD!) OPPENHEIMER . Abeautiful mess of this sort started mWind-_-. fixed*(Osborne found the soil around much . . .
<br /> • • •• - • • •• - ., ,• ':- - • • sot Oaks,which lies on the southern edge of- of the system had been permanently ruined. •
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<br /> this time-.in ...mi. Cary,about three years ago,on February 25, - Other en._gineers later found flaws in almost '.
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<br /> . - of these ...: ....ories. Send me a si ,•.r tidbit . 1985,when the state Division of Environmen- _every pipe and ditch.) •
<br /> .• and I'll send p. a lollipop.No dding.) .. . rat Management(DEM)approved the subdivi-, . Two months after Osborne's report,DEM
<br /> sewage system.If the soil ever failed"to . inspected the subdivision and found smelly
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<br /> One last thing. . page n-:.i. a good name-.. -ama's .
<br /> -a short one(three, • most)' adequately absorb the wastes," or "nuisance suds in streams .that run into utchman -
<br /> ...conditions"arose,the state said,"immediate- Creek,which runs into La eWheeler,a reserve. .. -
<br /> that signals the energy .be edge line,..,-;:il reservoir for Raleigh; :-.-- - .
<br /> f. -aim for;We've thouli, of a v:.ty of options-- _. cOrrective action"must be taken or the permit - drinking_water reservo.r oel,have fined Kin . •-•
<br /> ,."The Local Ed y 71 Underneath .e Trion
<br /> "Eye 40"-b one have really so • us.So if
<br /> you mail .•• the chosen suggestion,you.to .outer.We'll even try to gu hoe,.. could be revoked. - - - : •' ' .• .By federal law,DEM con d ave n.a King
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<br /> story on your primary concern about life here. . months later,John Harris,the sewage up to$ 0 00
<br /> tern's engineer,found a few leaks in the sys- for every day of violation,and
<br /> still could 0sofotoday.But R.ghobert Van Tisaiyhsait• _
<br /> but considered them insignificant.."1 hereby supervisor of DEM's Raleigh.office, h
<br /> certify that.the Windsor,Oaks.field-is fully., withheld penalties-to,avoid bankrupting the _. .- '
<br /> ' . operational," he wrote DEM. By October, companies min charge And driving them out of .-- ---
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<br /> • — DEM had inspected the system and stamped • .business."My job is to make'sure 80 residents
<br /> • •'-*---"77-----------• •••,-*....,,',,.'..,,,-;,....... it with their approval.After another six months, atent left in the lurch,"Van Tilburg explains '•
<br /> -.• •-'' ' ";' -•• • • ------__ _ , in March 1986,the utility running the sewage Van Tilburg's office did instructWalce County
<br /> . ..': .4••••••• .:'••••••••:••••••'---. • • :••-•••... : ..' ••_ : - '.:' system had found still more failures •• to withhold building permits for the subdivi- --.
<br /> - •••• • '. ,-. . -. • . The reason such troubles happen is quite. sion for the next five months Both DEM and - . •
<br /> •••..•- -...*-' .•••:* • ''• •••'•• : '. -- - --- = - simple.Much of the land still open around the John Melvin,owner of CAC Utilities(the corn- - .. .
<br /> • ; ........''.'...•-'7. ••••• • ".:•••• •••• • 4. ' .Triangle lies .m reservoir watersheds Town -pany in charge of the sewage system) then
<br /> •. • ••••• "•• '••- '' ' 1 sewage pipes often don't run through these. started warning banks that the system was in
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<br /> ••• .'• s .-.; . • - •—• • • ' I.- areas,and sewage plants that treat waste and_ trouble. One homeowner's loan ended up in .
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<br /> /...•'•••-:•r•-••••••'''':**.•;*••••• -:••••?'•••*':''''''''''' ---'-'r•---:' • 1 pour it into streams are prohibited.Therefore, limbo for months During much of that rime,
<br /> -• •••-•"•'•- •••••••'•-.';.•' --•••••••-- - •• • •• --' -.• ••• * ' some kind of septic system is the only imme- King had to haul the subdivision's sewage to
<br /> • , '.; , •• - diate option. But many of these open areas Holly Springs,Sept t an average cost of$460 a day. -••
<br /> • • -- •• - ' • • . .. also lie above gooey,clay-like soil;too dense . Finally,last September,after good luck dur- .• .
<br /> . ••• ••-• • .- ' • • * J to absorb the sewage of traditional septic ing the dry months,DEM wrote Wake County .
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<br /> ; i,...,;‘,:..,v,...a..1-..,-,:in.,...:1,;;....-,2:4 Developers have thus been winning approval system was in"conditional compliance."'Waite :
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<br /> o build in such spots by using a new septic began releasing apesrm_finding more . ..
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<br /> "-'••••• ••!"....'-''''''''''-'f'5"••••• ••''''''-'-'' r'''.'''' ' .*;v. :- system,which forces Sewage into these"mar-- vember,CAC's Melvin fi di g tl.
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<br /> “ • • • - -• ' - : j ginal" soils with a pump.When the earth is of sewage. . .
<br /> porous,during dry months,most.of these ys:, 'On Dec.4,Melvin wrote property owners -.
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<br /> • . tems work.During wet months,if there's that there would.be.no new.stacewifefracollynrenectpaiireonds
<br /> • slightest problem,they often fail. - •until the system had proven .
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