UPDATE ON SEPTIC TANKS

We cannot let our guard down, keep up the good work, this is from Andrea..... Dave

Dear neighbors.
Good news today! The Lake County Commissioners and the Seminole County Commissioners both voted to pass resolutions of protest against the DOH proposed rule. Other endorsements of our position are in the works and hopefully those will come through as well. I’ll let you know. But this combined with the Orange County Commissioners’ Resolution is an enormous endorsement of our position.

It’s time to fuel the fire a little. I am asking you to begin a second round of e-mails to the usual list of legislators and to Governor Crist. Go ahead and copy the Department of Health as well, so they get it from you and from Governor Crist. I would like to suggest that your second round of e-mails be in the form of questions that require answers. Such as:

1)When power conservation is the hot topic and citizens are facing a 25-30% increase in their power bills from Progress Energy, why is the Department of Health asking us to increase our power usage by 50% to run a PBTS system?

2) What possible benefit is it to the Wekiva River to reduce nitrogen from septic systems when as a result of installing a PBTS , Progress Energy will dump more nitrogen into the air by a factor of 3-5 times producing the energy needed to run these systems, than we generate with our conventional septic systems?

3) Why have you not tested, examined and documented the effectiveness of alternative methods of reducing nitrogen in conventional septic systems?

4) Why will you not consider setting standards for septic system inspection and mandatory pumping frequency, and see if proper maintenance of a standard system might produce desirable nitrogen reduction results without the economic impact of PBTS?

5) Where are the field tests that prove the use of PBTS will absolutely achieve the results you want in the WSA area? Are you asking us to spend this money without that assurance?

6) Why is the Department of Health willing to further devastate the economic condition and normal family functioning of so many families. Is the Dept. of Health going to contact our family members and explain why Thanksgiving dinner will not be at our house, because the PBTS cannot accommodate a sudden increase of input?

7) Can we voluntarily reduce our fertilizer usage by one bag, thereby achieving the same percentage of nitrogen reduction as the PBTS will achieve?
8) Is the Department of Health of the opinion that the scarce resources of Florida’s citizens are better directed at 6% nitrogen reduction than adequately funding our children’s education?
Just some suggestions….Copy them, change them….feel free to add your own, and send letters out as soon as you can.
Thanks!
Andrea

E-mail: Charlie.Crist@eog.MyFlorida.com.
Copy to: Bryan.Nelson@myfloridahouse.gov;
Jeff.Cottkamp@MyFlorida.com; Gardiner.andy.web@flsenate.gov;
Fred Brummer: District2@ocfl.net;
State Surgeon General, Ana Viamonte Ros - Secretary@DOH.State.