A simple summary of the sewer situation

SEELEY LAKE - I investigated our Sewer situation. Here’s a simple summary:

The county is not issuing septic permits where nitrate levels are elevated, so businesses and residents have turned on each other instead of building consensus. The Sewer Board is an extension of this division and is also now expected to serve as a community planning body of civic vision, a task outside its purview.

County assumptions justifying a treatment plant are neither convincing nor dismissible. The county seems to be acting conscientiously but it has also failed to build consensus. We keep hearing about what hap...