In Pender County, North Carolina, apparently it’s common for folks to empty a septic tank by running sewage through a garden hose into the woods out back. That’s what the county’s health director, Carolyn Moser, said last week in a news account.
Moser’s comments came in the Wilmington Star News after a local volunteer fire chief was cited for pumping waste out of his septic tank and into the woods in a neighboring property. The fire chief, in Surf City, N.C., Demetrius Batts, faces penalties and daily fines of $50 to $100 if he fails to repair his failing system.
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