Local municipal treatment plant officials are making noises that they will no longer be able to accept your septage loads. They say they’ve reached treatment capacity or the cost of processing loads from pumpers is becoming burdensome to the taxpayers. They talk about drastically raising the rates, or maybe taking only sludge pumped from homes and businesses within their city, town or county boundaries.This is becoming an all-too-common problem in the pumping industry, especially in sprawling metropolitan areas where municipal wastewater plants face budgetary constraints at the same time as more new homes are relying on septic systems for treatment.
