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<br />I <br /> <br />septic tanks which was more stringent than <br />the federal, or actually the guidelines of <br />the federal publication. We have felt that <br />this has been an impediment to us: that we <br />have a lot of septic tank installations going <br />in where they shouldn't go in, but we can't <br />make the standard any more strict than that <br />of the federal government. We have asked <br />the legislature to simply change that word <br />'more' to 'less' which we think it should <br />have been all along. If this does take place <br />we hope to be able to put a stop or at least <br />get a break on some of these kinds of things <br />that are now happening. <br /> <br />I'll give you an example. We have <br />taken the little community of Blend, near <br />Pueblo, to court. This is a community of <br />200 people and they don't have secondary <br />treatment. We have had a cease and desist <br />order which they have not complied with and <br />we are now in court over this. Yet we were <br />asked to approve a septic tank installation <br />in a proposed community near the Vallecito <br />Reservoir, a mountain development of 375 <br />homes. This is a proposed community of over <br />1000 people. It's not very consistent to be <br />suing some little incorporated town of 200 <br />for what pollution they are doing and then <br />say you folks go ahead and set in a septic <br />tank system throughout a community of 1000 <br />or more people and sometime later we'll get <br />after you and 'tell you to put in a sewage <br />system. <br /> <br />I <br /> <br />So we hope that this kind of thing will <br />help us to somehow minimize the adverse <br />effect of these types of developments. All <br />throughout our mountains we are having this <br />problem of septic tank installations going <br />bad with the resulting pollution of the <br />streams. <br /> <br />That's a general and a quick report, <br />Ben. II <br />