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38 THE RURAL VOICE
to do so on a regular basis.
If the higher cost causes people to
delay cleaning their septic tanks there
might be a need for provincial
legislation to force proper
maintenance of the tanks, said Senior
Planner Scott Tousaw.
Burns agreed with Shewfelt's
assessment. "A large part of the cost
is capital," he said. "There's a risk
you pay $6.5 million to built a plant
and you won't get enough volume."
But Marshall says trying to cut
corners by not pumping a
septic tank at least every three
years would be false economy. He
has some customers who now ask
him to automatically pump their tank
every year because the pumping fee
is pretty small compared to the cost
of replacing a septic bed. If a tank
isn't regularly cleaned out the fine
particles ih the sediment can clog the
tiles and the entire bed has to be
replaced, he said. Pumping is a cheap
insurance policy on a $5,000 to
$6,000 investment, he says.
Marshall thinks pretreating septage
to put water back into it so it can be
treated in a secondary sewage
treatment facility doesn't make sense.
He argues that the sediment pumped
from a septic tank has already had up
to three years anaerobic treatment.
Wouldn't it be better, he wonders, if
the remaining water was taken out of
the sediment and it was dried. He has
heard of one treatment facility that
squeezes moisture out of sediment,
turning 13 cubic meters of sludge
into one cubic meter.
In his fanciful moments, Marshall
envisions a truck -borne system that
would filter water out of the septage
and put it back into the septic tank,
with the pumper taking away only
the solids. Why truck away all the
water, he wonders?
For municipalities trying to come
up, with solutions, there are
difficulties until the province defines
what is untreated septage, argues
Carol Mitchell, Central Huron
mayor. Otherwise a treatment plant
could be built but there wouldn't be
enough volume to pay for it.
Tousaw, however, warned that
though five years to find a solution to
the problem may seem like a long
time now, by the time environmental
hearings and actual construction is
carried out there's little time to
waste.0