Year after year, organizations fund grant programs to improve water quality by helping people repair or replace failing onsite systems, and a story from upstate New York shows such money isn’t just being poured into holes in the ground.In July, The Post-Star of Glens Falls reports that in a small area of Lake George where septic systems have been replaced, the presence of algae fed by untreated wastewater is down 25 percent.Lake George sits in the mountains of New York, about 200 miles north of New York City and only a couple of miles from the border with Vermont. The lake is
