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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>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Nancy Schwerzler]]></dc:creator>
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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>O&#8217;Malley to Shore: &#8216;Flush You&#8217; or the $4 per Flush Mandate</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Feb 2011 17:46:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A Cecil Times Special Report Gov. Martin O’Malley’s otherwise predictable State of the State speech Thursday had a surprise for many rural residents: a proposed ban on septic systems for new “major” housing developments. But the real shocker wasn’t in that speech: buried in the state’s Bay cleanup plan issued in December is a demand for owners of existing homes in the Bay’s “critical area” to install new, costly high-tech septic systems. Property owners in the “critical areas” are already under a 2009 state mandate requiring upgrades to the new nitrogen-removal systems if they build a new home or their existing septic system fails. But the state’s new Bay cleanup plan proposes extending the mandate to existing homes even if their current septic is fully functional. The septic proposals call to mind the exhortation of former Governor William Donald Schaefer, who once referred to the Eastern Shore as a “s***house” because voters did not support his re-election. In O’Malley’s more polite verbiage, the Eastern Shore seems to be an “outhouse” that must be replaced while urban areas can flush with impunity. In his speech to the General Assembly, Gov. O’Malley declared that “there is one area of reducing pollution where [&#8230;]]]></description>
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