Ohio Town Resists Sewer Hook-Up Since 1979

There are some eerie similarities between the Los Osos sewer mess and that of a tiny town of 622 souls called Bay View in Erie County, Ohio. Of course their tiny soon-to-be system costs only a bit over $6 million as there is already an existing treatment plant awaiting delivery of product. But work on the pipes began in 1979 and is just now on the brink of being started. Read about it here:
http://www.sanduskyregister.com/news/environment/9429986

A 2013 report said: "The Ohio section of the report lists the Bay View West beach in Erie County as the fourth-worst in the state."

(Erie County health commissioner Pete) Schade's letter to (Governor John) Kasich outlines the problem.

" 'Over the past several years, I have been working to bring sanitary sewers to a small village of 400 homes on the Sandusky Bay. The Village of Bay View, Ohio, has septic systems that basically dump raw sewage directly into Sandusky Bay,' Schade wrote."

Comments below this article were:

doratheexplorer

SAT, 06/29/2013 - 3:19PM

Gross

Blues

SAT, 06/29/2013 - 4:05PM

There is a beach in Bay View? 

doratheexplorer

SAT, 06/29/2013 - 9:48PM

A crappy beach

Tool Box

MON, 07/01/2013 - 11:47AM

So the poop from my house is going into the bay? Oh my, that's not good! All those people who swim at the sand bar are swimming in my poop then! Ewe!

I can't say that I ever see swimmers in OUR bay, do you? But then, having waded into Lake Erie at (a different spot!) this summer, the water there was a LOT warmer than here. It is nice to know though, that we are not alone in the world of sewer reluctance......although I believe we can rightly claim a far more spectacular reluctance on oh, so many levels.