Black residents in rural Alabama demand sanitation equity, saying 'it's a right'

Here is a clue...if you live in the country like I do....PUT IN A SEPTIC TANK LIKE EVERYONE ELSE!!! You own the property why iss it someone elses fault and why should someone else pay to put in a tank at your home? It is not a right, home ownership is a privilege and is the responsibility of the owner not the government.

We have a three tank aerator system that has sprinklers that dispense once everything in broken down.

I really don’t understand this. Several houses I have lived in had septic tanks. A house my parents had built had a septic tank. You do a percolation test to see if the ground is porous enough for a septic tank. If the ground is porous enough you put in septic tank and leeching field to drain the water. If the ground isn’t porous enough you can get an above ground system. My daughter currently has an above ground system. If your system is slow get the tank pumped. If it is still slow have the sewer pipes settled at the wrong angle? That happened to my son on his septic system. Tree roots can grow into sewer pipes. If the pipes are ok you may need to look at the leeching field. It can get expensive. A fellow I hired to help with home renovations bought a new house. The septic system didn’t work correctly. He had had the expertise to troubleshoot the system. The house builder had run only one line into the leeching field. He was digging it up to put in the proper drainage system. A county inspector got wind and told him he needed permits etc. The home owner told the inspector F’ off because the county never would have passed his home inspection if they had actually inspected and he would sue every one who signed off on his sewer system. The inspector left and the home owner fixed his system. Where I lived at one point the county put in a sewer line with mandatory hook up, at several $1,000/ hook up. As with new construction you were required to have your sewer line run to the right away along your property line. We had our sewer lines inspected a while back and had roots in the system on the county side so the county had to dig out the roots, if the roots were on our side of the property line we would have had to remove the roots. Is it really a government responsibility to maintain your septic system? Our sewer bill is based on our water usage. The money collected pays for maintenance on the county sewer lines.