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Originally Posted by Mr. V
I wish they'd put sewer everywhere around the lake, not just in town.
It would end the problem of leeching into the lake, for one thing.
Why hasn't it been done?
Heaven knows the property tax is high enough.
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It wouldn't really be an issue of Tax increases - but the homeowners would ultimately bear the burden of the cost - down here in the Merrimack Valley there are many areas of our local towns and cities that for a long time had septic. The towns and cities decided to move ahead with sewer hookups to the delight of all. Until the homeowners realized it was going to cost THEM (the homeowner between 5K and 10K to hookup to the sewer lines being laid.
The biggest shocker was that the hookup was MANDATORY - thats right - once the sewer passed your property you had two years to come up with the funds and link into the sewer line. No tax increase - but now these folks who forever paid the septic man every 5 or 6 years - now pay an annual "sewer" fee assessed by the town. And - many still have leech fields, and tanks buried under their property.
Oh well - just my thoughts.