WYE MILLS The Symposium of Septic Systems and Future Growth in Maryland confirmed concerns farmers and local government officials have with Gov. Martin O'Malley's proposal to limit septic systems in Maryland.
Many panelists and participants in the symposium at Chesapeake College on Tuesday said the governor's proposal is not about improving the Chesapeake Bay's health, but about giving the state more control over local land use practices. They also said the consequences of the proposed bill would devalue land in rural communities.
In a passionate, well-received speech, Sen. E.J. Pipkin, R-36-Upper Shore, said many of the state's recent actions represent a war on rural Maryland. He pleaded with attendees to work with state legislators to reject the septic bill in any form.
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5 comments:
Pipkin for Governor!
It's not too early to plan for throwing the bums in Annapolis out. Let O'Malley get a job in Chicago working in the Obama library.
Secession - not all that far fetched after all is it. That is what I've been saying all along.
If State of Maryland imposes its will on local municipalities - eastern shore has right to seceed.
The way to attack this proposal is to go after the data. The Gov. claims that septic systems create 7% of the nitrogen and phosphorus polution going into the Bay. There never has been a study. That figure is based on an MDE model that has never been tested. In otherwords it is just a guess by biased environmentalists.
This plan is being promoted by
Rich Hall, Secetary of the Maryland
Department of Planning. This is all
about screwing the landowners of Maryland. He has been hear to say
in Wicomico County"If we downzone
the farmland we wont have to pay the owners for their development rights" Think of how much this will save the State!! What a JERK!!
I don't know much about the septic issues, other than what I read, but it seems to me that maybe they need to work on the sewage systems in the cities that spew hundreds of thousands of gallons of effluent into our rivers, lakes, stream, and the Bay every time it rains. You can bet your LIFE that somewhere there is a politician or a friend/relative of a politician poised to make a bundle off whatever law these low-life, self-centered, lying, cheating, thieving, con artists dream up next (for our own good, of course...).
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