Latest Headlines
- Pedestrian Checking Trailer Tire Struck By Car In Two Vehicle Crash Near Century
- State Funding $240 Million Beulah I-10 Interchange
- Failed Urban Development Centery YouthFirst Program Finally Repays Unsecured Loan From Century
- FDOT Updates Status Of Century Highway 29 Construction Work
- Walnut Hill Man, Three Others Charged After Alleged Overdose On Embalming Fluid, GHB
- Escambia Man, 77, Charged With Shooting Multiple Rounds At Santa Rosa County SWAT
- Escambia (AL) Volunteer Fire Departments Receive State Grant, Present Service Awards
- Tate Grad, UWF Standout Darrien McDowell Selected In 2024 MLB Draft
- Escambia County Corrections’ Wilson, Hankins Graduate From State Leadership Programs
- Escambia Commission Cancels This Week’s Meeting
Bill To Map, Track And Require Septic Tank Inspections Is Not Approved
May 13, 2019
A bill that would require the Florida Department of Health identify and map all septic tanks in the state failed to pass this legislative session. The bill was indefinitely postponed and withdrawn from consideration.
The bill was passed by the Agriculture and Natural Resources Subcommittee 12-0 but never made it to the House floor.
The measure would have required inspections of septic systems at least once every five years and required the Department of Health to develop minimum standards and requirements for pumping out or repairing failing systems.
Comments
16 Responses to “Bill To Map, Track And Require Septic Tank Inspections Is Not Approved”
So glad this “scheme” didn’t pass, they need to focus on preventing sewage treatment spills and farm fertilizer run off contamination!
I’m glad it failed because most of Florida doesn’t need this. That being said, there are parts of Florida in the South and along the West Coast down to the Everglades that could probably use this. There are a lot of bacteria problems along the West Coast and at times the East Coast that have to do with runoff from Farming and septic issues.
Less government, more liberty!
Perhaps citizens writing their representatives does work. I do not see why the State felt the need to even consider this as I believe it should be left to the counties to decide if such a program is necessary.
This was a ” joke bill” from the get go…..I’m pretty sure I’d know if I had a septic problem…didn’t need anyone to charge me to inspect the septic tank that I purchased…… it’s mine !!!! kinda like the charge they put on building an in-ground swimming pool for over-flow…..lol
Praise the Lord!! This was nonsense and another expense we would have for no good reason. Most normal septic tank owners take care of there systems because they do not want a costly expense so they do get pump outs and when that is done they “inspect” you then really or they cant do certain jobs. Thank God this has been put to rest!!
This is a VICTORY for common sense! It was introduced by the head of the GOP in our state, for Cripe’s sake, and he should know better than to bring in more frivolous government intrusion into our lives~!
Praise the Lord! There seems to be laws for everything. You buy a piece of property, pay for it, then the county/ government wants to tell you WHAT you can do or cannot do. I know that when the property is paid for, it’s never yours, one pay taxes the rest of one’s life. It seems no matter what one does to maintain one’s property there’s always someone wanting to pass a law to do this or that to that property. We DON’T need any more laws. The ones we have DON’t always work. That’s my take on Mr. Hill and his law.
So thankful this particular nightmare scheme has been ditched. Thank you Legislators for getting this one right. We are like everyone else who has commented here, we take care of our own system maintenance on a monthly basis, it’s an asset to our property, so why wouldn’t we take care of it?
If you want to truly know what is polluting our waters, environment and us, watch the documentary Biosludged, then you will learn, it’s not our individual septic tanks that are the culprit, as a matter of fact, our individual septic tanks are doing everyone else a favor!
I have been in my house for 30 + years and never had a problem. When we first moved my wife, Mrs. Jazzreel, worried about it “backing up”. That is what she remembered about septic tanks, they leave wet spots in the yard and they back up into the house. I told her we needed to treat the septic tank to keep those things from happening. Ever since she has, religiously, added the treatment every month. We raised 3 girls and never once have we had a problem. That said, it will probably plug solid and stop draining today.
GOOD,GOOD,GOOD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Thanks to those who blocked this oppressive bill.
SO happy this bill failed to pass!
Thank goodness that this nightmare bill did not pass. Everybody that lives in rural Florida should note that Mr. Hill sat on the committee that unanimously sent this bill to the House floor.
I am glad it did not pass. We have enough regulations all ready. Before you move into a house that has been lived in before you it is required to inspect the tank and have it pumped. No need to do it that often. Most home owners take care of this as maintenance.
The expense is not needed .
Just another scheme to get money out of taxpayers.
Agree the law may have found some irresponsible tank users.
Yet know responsible users of septic tanks know the $ $ $ value to themselves to keep them properly maintained. And, we are one of those families.
Don’t need a LAW to keep everything taken care of.
Glad this one was wiped clean.