Ontario has two million septic tanks. In 2002, the provincial government passed a Nutrient Management Act, or NMA, forbidding the spreading of untreated septage on agricultural land by the end of 2005. The Ministry of the Environment, or MOE, told haulers to discharge their trucks at sewage treatment plants.Typical treatment plants, however, can only take septage up to about 2 percent of their operating flow. Many facilities didn’t want additional septage or were already taxed beyond their capacities. Complicating the plan, hauling distances to many treatment facilities in rural Ontario are considered unreasonable.The Ontario Association of Sewage Industry Services, or
