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Home My WebLink AboutC.054.93008_0892447 ..y ly support under cn't rememberrexa exactly, tabooake ?62. There's s devel,ped fbeen inoor tmaOjorlpollutio,,believe �onsthat started filling up in G', Thein ' lo7s of housing on the lake, and all the housas in all the counties with the exception of, don't know about Mecklenburg, I don't know if the houses on the lake on that side have to be on a sewer line. y from tanks that have tas I overruneinithehlake and fish kn nn illsnandrwhateverhmay happen,,ns Theut lakes hasnsstayedic clear with septic tanks. Now you've heard testimony that septic tanks fail. Well, so d� mechanical treame and twhor knows who'sn going toy be operathave ing ng int and who 'Whoknows who's going to ownl it 20 years[ dovin plant road? One of the major reasons that there was no major argument by my side when the PRO ordinance was being written about mechanical waste treatment plants is very simple. We were under the impression that we were trying to get an ordinance written for the entire county, not just for the lake. 1 can veru easily see where there are places in this county where something litre this would work well, tumble oveif r rocks and thensilt,to d and nitls goinginto through'treehbranchest is P,and moving s� going to cleanse to itself with sunlight and distance. I think that happens. I can't remember how many running feet of stream that it takes for water to purify itself, but it's not as far as you think �aouldit be. So Ineed could easily intoa gond courseit incNor th I ed itsell before going little toastanding body of running strm water. wYoud can t fodischargerget that Lake Norman is a standing body of water, and it really doesn't sound like much to say oldsgou to put one swimming plot a day worth of effluent into Lake Norman. I think a swimming pool But we're not just talking about Heronwood. We're talking Heron+good, and XYZ and ABC, and all •- the others that are going to be coming and wanting to do the same thing. I talked to the gentlemen said, he said ands sthey abideobyethelstate 9rulesmanaement and nd 1 said to egulations, we have to i sue themhatpermitthe eOpAndcImsaid Ic us gallons understand that. I said, but how do you arrive at issuing them a permit? He says well we ,jus sorts take what's happening in other lakes and try to figure out their effluent and how many g ct and what effect it's 9onWe dto on'tavwe just�do ivtltheoetically.do you know Havehat no way of telling.ng to have on Lake Norman. He says, Now these gentlemen have applied for a permit, I thought 140,000 gallons, if it's 100,C00 gallons, that's fine. If it's less, it really doesn't matter. The point, try to imagine bestrth0ing years from now when you've got 20 or 30 units down there discharging 100,000 a day. can happenptohe est thing that can nLake Nake orman. And to that9et meanstinput that Lakeinto it. No Norrman would then develophthin. That's tas bt has developed for the past 20 years, and that is with single family dwellings, or maybe duplexes, but serviced by septic tanks, so that the land only supports the number, takes the number of people that the land will support. So that's what really is at issue here. That's the crux of the whole matter is how much do we rd care eaabout rolawt ng Lake aedNoes manurs and you've heWeliPemy inforsay mation leads me togs like, �believeathat the �t up,states says you may, but it does not say you shell. Local law determines that-- local action. The state doesn't say you've got to allow them to dump into Lake Norman. It says you may allow. There's a bio difference in those two words. So don't think what you're doing is going to be against the law if you decide not to allow waste treatment plant to dump their effluent into Lake Norman. Now, another thing bothers me about what's happened here, and what bothers me is that, Good Lord, how many hours have we been here? We need Mr. Springerto my nd maybe could go back andtcheckvthe rtraneat scripts, butifficulty,you I feel like there's see, I don't ,b en agb each memory is, cf faith, I feel there's been a breach of faith. There was 20 or 30 people in this room when these folks first applied for the PRO or whe.tever it was vie were doing at that itime. LakenNorman.d some ofThert hee were wolks oords pass d ouhot t thereout inhaving sewage, and effluent, I should say, p that they vrould proceed on the basis of nitrofication the commissioners at that time, to my memory, fields and tseptic tanks. And when dropped outey ssaid that , most of the people dropped cut who were pro es - of ting. Ifyou go back through the minutes and read the minutes that have occurred over this period, read you own minutes, you will see that nitrofication fields, septic tanks, Mr. Hedrick read the motion that was made when Madeline Hansen's petition for rezoning was denied, it was denied on the basis that the developers would use the building permit as issued which was septic tank for sewage disposal. In some of the minutes, Mr. Walser is quoted, I didn't bring those with me, in saying he wants septic tanks. If that's what it will take to approve this,ey you know, etterwe'll dont Raleigh hsaying nthe all along has been septic tanks. Now they app permit had been received sometime back in March. That was less than a month and a half from when the motion was made, and in my opinion, restricting the building to septic tanks. We had a vote here a month ago in which the vote again denied :hem the use of meciWen�ieabackshere te rtonight plants at Lake Norman. But at that time, because it wasn't done correctly, built and the vote went for them, no When the road was cut and the buildings wee one objected on their part then about not doing it correctly. We, the public, Pave be^n led to Gelelicve that