Do we need a sewer system?

[Thiassi]

This was posted on the High Desert forum:

Disgusting, unhealthy Wrightwood CA - Health Warnings

I was unaware that there are no SEWERS for the MANY homes, camps, businesses and restaurants in Wrightwood.

They should all be shut down immediately.

I will be contacting my congressman and the US Forest Service to urge that this is done.

Why should a priviledged FEW, be allowed to ruin and dispoil OUR forest with their Feces and Garbage?

Make them put in sewers or kick them all out.

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Private Investigator License No. PI-21952-

*Since 1975

http://www.highdesert.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=13816

Who would pay for the sewers?

[Bob C]

I'm sure that person is just a troll.. no one could be that un-informed.

[Mikeswave]

Ya i know i gotta dig the hole deeper for the out-house out back right  can it wait tell the ground thaws.   

[Thiassi]

I can't dig a few inches before hitting rocks! I've never seen so many rocks.

[Stitches]

I hear you Thiassi.     Last week we planted our live tree.    My husband and kids were out there with shovels and used the roto-hammer or impact hammer to loosen the rocks and soil so they could shovel it out.    When I plant new bulbs I can't dig very far before I hit another Wrightwood potato.   (I didn't come up with that, I read it somewhere)

When I first moved here I wished for a sewer system.   Now I'm used to the septic system and know that I just have to work with it.   We had ours moved in 2003 because the old one was sitting at exactly the place where we were going to put the new addition so we had to move the system before we drew up the plans.

Misinformed is right.    The writers seems to think we all have outhouses.        There are lots of outlying communities all over the U.S. who still use septic systems.    As for hurting the forest?   I bet the parts of the forest that can reach the leach fields are very happy.    I know for a fact the once we moved our system we lost the few trees who had depended on the leach field.   And the trees on the other side of the house are now happy because they get the watering.

[thehallmarks]

If you follow the links and read the "other" forum comments there is a familiar "alternative" Wrightwood website involved in this discussion...BTW Ace Carter--if he is a private investigator--does not list enough information to find him anywhere on the licensee website.

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[Bob C]

...BTW Ace Carter--if he is a private investigator--does not list enough information to find him anywhere on the licensee website.

Actually, he did.  If this person is real in any way... the info can be viewed here: http://www2.dca.ca.gov/pls/wllpub/WLLQRYNA$LCEV2.QueryView?P_LICENSE_NUMBER=21952&P_LTE_ID=651

[kew]

There might (note the word "MIGHT") be a few septic systems that are not to code and (again) might be a problem. But, a properly installed system will be no problems at all. We had our system here in Phelan for 25 years before it gave any problem. We had it pumped and the leach field relocated. Now our "huge" cottonwood that had tapped into the leach field is complaining because it is no longer get the "good stuff." However the pines near the new locatation, thank us every day.

[tiltronix]

When the question of sewers downtown comes up, they always say that the whole village needs sewers.  That's their way of saying that the whole village must pay for the downtown refuse.  Who now receive "snow removal?"  It's downtown.  It gets piled in the center of Park and then dumped into Swarthout Creek.  It was estimated in the 1980s that it would cost each lot $10,000 for sewers throughout the village.  With the cost-of-living increases, guess what it would cost today!!!!  Downtown wants the rest of us to clean up their refuse!!!!

[lynnc]

I was on the sewer committee for two years and we did a lot of research.  The bottom line - the cost would be prohibitive.  The county agreed and the committee has been disbanded.  If you want further details, PM me.  I have an entire notebook of minutes and notes.

Also one of our biggest concerns was the loss of water to plants from the leach lines.  We looked into the possibility of sending the clean(ed) water back uphill through a piping system, but the cost was very high.

The downtown area does need sewers, but it is not in any budget.  We did look at the cost of sewers for just downtown, which would have been paid for by just the downtown businessses, but it was impossible for the business owners to afford it.

This PI that posted the original comment has no idea what he is talking about.

[storm]

Ya i know i gotta dig the hole deeper for the out-house out back right  can it wait tell the ground thaws.

i like to make poopy in the levee--that way the spring run-off takes it all down to the desert...just kidding

someone needs to service their septic system near Willow and Irene, that's for sure