PORT ANGELES — The Clallam County Board of Health is considering a proposal that would charge septic tank owners a $13-per-year fee to support the county’s on-site septic system management program, a ...

Homeowners with cesspools and septic tanks may breathe freely now that lawmakers have killed a bill that would have required them to pay an annual fee for monitoring water quality. Lawmakers had ...

A $1.9 million county treatment facility for septic waste has been ready to operate for four months but remains idle while the county commissioners try to decide how to calculate fees that private ...

Last year, Frederick County reformulated its fee for septic tank waste disposal -- dramatically raising it. The hike was prompted by a study that showed the fee was too low, and that county ...

HOT SPRINGS -- A 5-cent per-gallon disposal fee the city proposed for septic tank haulers using the Davidson Drive wastewater treatment plant will be phased in over two years. A septic tank industry ...

The Upper Burrell supervisors recently approved a 32% increase in fees for property owners installing new septic systems and other associated services. Virtually all homes and businesses in the ...

About 85,000 septic systems serve homes and businesses in King County, but health and environmental officials don’t know what condition they’re in or whether they’re leaking human waste into the ...

The owner of a local septic hauling company said an increased fee paid to Frederick County government for disposal of septic waste could double the cost of pumping for consumers. Mary Murphy, whose ...

A &#8220septic receiving station” to treat solids pumped from septic tanks in the area is about to enter the design phase at the Borough of Shippensburg's wastewater treatment plant. Borough officials ...

La Crosse County homeowners with private septic systems could see a change in how the county collects the management fees related the maintenance of their septic systems. The La Crosse County Health ...