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		<title>Cecil County Faces Costly Bay Cleanup; Septic Users May Have to Dig Up Tanks for $20K Systems</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Oct 2011 22:25:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The bad news just keeps getting worse for Cecil County on costly sewage and environmental problems. Scott Flanigan, the county’s Director of Public Works and a professional engineer, delivered the latest bad news to the County Commissioners at a worksession Tuesday. In order to meet state mandates—as part of a federal requirement to clean up the Chesapeake Bay—Cecil County will likely have to impose new rules on old and new septic systems and pay costs for extension of sewer services into more populated areas that are currently not served by county or municipal sewer systems. Cecil County must draft a “watershed implementation plan” (WIP) to reduce water pollution and submit it to the state in the next few months, but County Commissioners will have some tough decisions to make in the next few weeks— something that the current Board of Commissioners has not shown itself to be able to do without multiple delays and much hemming and hawing on a variety of issues. Flanigan said that the county “might have to make it mandatory” to force existing homeowners in the “critical area” to spend $15,000 to $20,000 to upgrade their septic systems to so-called “highest available technology” septic systems that [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Bay Cleanup Plan Worries Cecil County; Towns-County Fight Looms</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Feb 2011 19:48:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Maryland’s Chesapeake Bay cleanup plan submitted to federal authorities last December will have “a significant impact on everyone” and the burden of enforcement could be dumped on the counties, Cecil County Commissioner Robert Hodge (R-5) told fellow commissioners. Moreover, the program could pit the county against its incorporated towns as they vie for allowable wastewater discharge flows. At the Cecil County Commissioners workshop session Tuesday, Hodge voiced “serious, serious concerns” after attending a meeting of Eastern Shore local leaders and environmental officials to discuss the program. Maryland and other states near the Bay are under orders from the federal Environmental Protection Agency to reduce nutrient pollution running off into the Bay under a program that sets “maximum daily loads” for pollutants. Maryland submitted its plan in December 2010, and EPA commended the state for its multi-pronged efforts to combat pollution from agriculture, septic and sewage treatment systems, and urban run-off. Governor Martin O’Malley stunned state and local lawmakers a week ago when, in his State of the State message, he advocated legislation—subsequently introduced in the General Assembly—to sharply curtail septic systems in rural areas such as Cecil County. The state’s plan submitted to the EPA in December also included a [&#8230;]]]></description>
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