Senator Rich Colburn and several other key legislators have sponsored legislation which may help to stream line and speed-up land evaluations for conducting percolation test for Maryland's farmers and land owners. In recent years, the Wicomico County Health Department had requested additional overtime expenses and more personnel in order to conduct perculation test and other land evaluation practices throughout Wicomico.
Under the newly proposed guidelines, these test may now be conducted by privately licensed sanitarians which will should be beneficial to area land owners, farmers, and beneficial to Maryland taxpayers. Across the State line in Delaware, this practise is already permitted. In addition, Delaware allows private engineers to engineer many different type septic systems to accommodate differing soil conditions. Moreover, the educational statutes of Delaware require continuing education credits for septic installers so as to promote a high Quality Control standard for installation of traditional and hybrid systems.
Click here to see details of proposed legislation: http://mlis.state.md.us/2009rs/billfile/sb0606.htm
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They are various degrees of mound systems which function by not draining the waste water down, but evaporating the waste water up in the atmosphere. They can be pretty fun for the kids when it snows to. They are also known as "Lawn-Mower Killers".
ReplyDeleteWith WET, the Bay Foundation, many on the Wicomico Council and the Planning Commission trying to outlaw development in the ag. areas, what possible good will this do. To them our property rights are meaningless.
ReplyDeleteWe need to stop the proposed downzoning by the County Council and Rick Pollitt to protect our asset.
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ReplyDeleteApparently the County Council isn't aware that it was housing that kept our 'coffers full to the brim'. And, it looks as though some of the members have bought-in to the socialism concept also.
Nothing surprises me anymore. What you thought you owned is now the Property of the Government.
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ReplyDeleteBelieve it or not, there are many farmers and landowners, like myself, who think that quality of life for my children and grandchildren is more important that the extra money I could get for selling my land to develop. This is not a 100% environmental issue. If I wanted to live in Montgomery county, I would have moved there. There is a reason everyone wants to move here, and its not the high paying jobs. There is a breaking point where there will no longer be the critical mass of agriculture to support farming of any kind, and I do not want Wicomico to reach that point.
The Daily Times front page article is the report of the census from 2007. The good news is that there is a 6% increase in farm land than there was 5 years prior. That interpreted is 92,852 acres in 2007
ReplyDeletevs. 88,470 in 2002. This is great news for the county but let's see how the environmentalists will try and spin this data.
You Go Rich!!
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