Take control of your own health..and cost
I have posted before about taking control, for a nominal expense, of your own water destiny.Let me say I have over 25 years experience in water treatment, everything from lime soda softeners, to hydrogen zeolite and sodium zeolite cation and anion exchange units.The products available today, for very little cost, can make your well or sand point or even lake water treatable.Noone makes money off of you..and you control your health and costs.Heck..they even have lights that come on in Reverse Osmosis units to tell when the membrane needs to be replaced.Not a handyman? Thats fine..Sauble Beach and area has a lot of very skilled tradesmen willing and able to assist you with this.
Waste water, that can also be controlled by you.A septic system can be maintained and kept in good working order, and don't believe otherwise.One of the main hazards to a septic system, is tree roots..and most specifically those so caled trees we know as poplars.Keep paints and chemicals and plastics out of the system..add the pouches for activating it weekly, and yes..food scraps(no grease) help breakdown.Watch your use of bleach,use environment friendly bleach(usually hydrogen peroxide) but don't fear if you do add bleach to the system..it is gone within a short while, just make sure you activate the septic system again.Your money is better in YOUR pockets.
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Growing our Own Water
one of the ideas floated at Hepworth fits well with your advice: Since we are all technically shareholders in the corporation of the Town of South Bruce Peninsula, why not arrange some sort of financing program where we can _all_ share the risk in helping someone to innovate with modern waterworks? Many people at that meeting pointed to very simple solutions such as improving the landscape around properties to improve the drainage, but conceded that many of our residents could not afford to embark on such revisions on their own.
Well that's what neighbours are for! Instead of peeling out nearly half a million to some Toronto law firm, let's peel out a few tens of thousands here and there to assist in the overall _improvement_ of the hot spots, making a better community one step at a time.
It strikes me today, on reading of the recent Council retreat, that a significant barrier to your list of ideas here is the spectre of the massive _debt_ hanging over us all while there is still full-steam motion towards the Grand Unified Waterworks; if I know that I may be stuck with Carl Noble's water bill tacked to my taxes within the next 5 years, I'm unlikely to spend the $10k to fit my property with a Living Machine only to have it's role usurped long before I've amortized its cost. I've come to realize that the _first_ thing we need, after a firm education on the alternatives, is a firm assurance that _even if the sewer happens_ any buy in on it will be completely voluntary, by individual choice rather than mob rule fillibuster.
you are right..
you are right gary..but when water and sewers go into private rather than public hands..as in Hamilton..there is no choice.It's pay or get cut off..and we will bylaw you out of any alternative.Big question is...is water for our health and benefit? or for profit.Its not like a mcdonalds where if I dont like the Burger I will go to Harveys(veggie burger please)you can't do it.Come on people I know everyone is reading this..log on and post!
If you don't Ill have to post some old usenet posts from 1992..if you remember that..or remember gopher..or..;)
sheesh I date myself.
Medieval Net Threats
1992? that's post Cello and everything; a scant dozen years, y'know, and while painful like a hot poker, it's not much threat to make them talk. Thanks to Henry Spencer (Mr UtZoo) and his amazing bottomless archive, I can feel really old now or drift off into real when I was a young pup pre-googleable yore days of ARPANet (bang! bang!) and on to iNet, DATAPAC, FidoNET ...
care to buy a T shirt mon?
The 1992 post was when you were musing about Jamaica..I used to read you on TRN back then ;)