After years of funding public sewer projects to serve the growing population around Branson, Missouri, local government decided to extend some of the benefit to owners of residential septic systems. In 2014, the county spent $73,000 to pay the entire cost of pumping septic tanks on 500 properties. It worked so well they repeated the program in 2015.As Branson began to grow in the early 1990s, Taney County officials proposed a half-cent sales tax for wastewater capital improvements, which was approved by voters in 1993. “Due to the popularity of Branson as a tourist destination, a lot of people moved
