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You can't (or shouldn't) make new (or future) residents pay for past infrastucture issues, or poor planning by local authorities long before they ever decided to move here. Let's take an engineering approach to this: determine present issues and capacities, identify existing problems with the most efficient ways to resolve them, require our city and state authorities to do the necessary long-term planning in order to address FUTURE anticipated needs - and then decide as a community and state how best to pay for them. Continue with long-term bonds? Property taxes? Infrastructure funds from the state and federal governments? That's what we elect mayors, county officials, state representatives, and our people in Congress for.
You can't (or shouldn't) make new (or future) residents pay for past infrastucture issues, or poor planning by local authorities long before they ever decided to move here. Let's take an engineering approach to this: determine present issues and capacities, identify existing problems with the most efficient ways to resolve them, require our city and state authorities to do the necessary long-term planning in order to address FUTURE anticipated needs - and then decide as a community and state how best to pay for them. Continue with long-term bonds? Property taxes? Infrastructure funds from the state and federal governments? That's what we elect mayors, county officials, state representatives, and our people in Congress for.
Make the developers pony up for new service requirements.
And an amortization for the initial install costs; elec svc too (vs an in-town property).
You buy the house and it is usually already there, done and paid for.
And a septic tank is simply a bioreactor, efficiently converting used organics to water and small molecules. No fuss, no muss.
Yes the well needs power but the cost is really low for a pump (as opposed to heating and cooling for example).
But I meant this sort of to be amusing. You are required to have large acreage to have your own water and septic. The OP should look at his bill again, since often the public water bill includes the cost of the sewage removal/treatment. Often they use an assumption that the removal gallonage is equivalent to the water useage and send the bill as one.
You buy the house and it is usually already there, done and paid for.
I'm sure you realize this, but septic systems/leach fields don't last forever- 20 years give or take. Any many systems require a pump which requires additional electricity.
I'm just nitpicking, but you get the idea.
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