In this month’s editor’s column, entitled “Set the Record Straight,’’ I called on Florida pumpers to hammer home the importance of periodic septic tank maintenance. The industry is being assaulted with a campaign of ignorance and misinformation from public officials trying to squash any progress toward a mandate for tank pumping in the state.
After a statewide septic inspection bill was adopted, then repealed by the state legislature, the state passed a reasonable five-year tank inspection requirement for 20 counties with first-magnitude springs, those counties where a malfunctioning septic system would most threaten the state’s groundwater supply. In the past few
