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5 <br /> permitted point of discharge before renewing the discharge permit <br /> which expires on April 1, 1992. This is still not a guarantee <br /> that DEM will eventually force Carden's to cease discharging to a <br /> location where the flow will not impact the Stephenson property <br /> which lies across Hwy 70 from Carden's. In the final analysis, <br /> the County may not be able to guarantee the end of sewage effluent <br /> discharge to the Stephenson property. <br /> The installation of the package treatment system at Carden's <br /> should alleviate some of the conditions that the existing system <br /> has inflicted on the Stephenson property. If additional sewage <br /> flow from Carden's is allowed to impact the Stephenson property, <br /> however, any improvement in the quality of the flow will be of <br /> little comfort or satisfaction to Mr. Stephenson. The existing <br /> condition where the water ponds in the low areas of the dry creek <br /> bed behind his home will not improve noticeably and may even get <br /> worse. Many of Mr. Stephenson's problems with odor and insects in <br /> this swampy area will exist independently of the quality of the <br /> sewer flow; the insects breed in stagnant water and much of the <br /> odor is associated with the decomposition of organic material such <br /> as leaves, grass, etc. that fall into the stagnant water. This <br /> material undergoes bacterial decomposition under water in the <br /> absence of air (anaerobically) and emits hydrogen sulfide and <br /> methane gases. <br /> r <br />