As of July, the state septic code required all 2.6 million onsite systems to be inspected and pumped every five years. The state has estimated that one in 10 septic tanks are failing and expected about 260,000 to be replaced by 2020. Health officials, however, are concerned about what to do with septage pumped from those systems, since the state’s new water supply legislation bans land application of septage in 2016.Because of the legislation, Marion County commissioners repealed sections of the Springs Protection Ordinance. They rescinded provisions requiring tanks to be inspected every five years and failing systems to be
