Healthy Septics and Healthy Lakes in Haliburton: The Politics of Municipal Reinspection

<p>Three of the four townships in Haliburton County have established septic reinspection programs and the 4th, Minden Hills, is about to launch its variation in the near future.</p><p>Programs vary tremendously from one township to the next and some inspectors and waste treatment experts question the capacity of the majority of the county’s programs to actually identify key structural failures that can undermine lake health.</p><p>The most comprehensive program in the County, in Dysart et al, is under pressure to reduce its scope, raising fears that political support for protecting lake water quality is waning.</p><p>To discuss how septic systems work and fail as well as the problems with the programs we rely on to identify and fix malfunctioning systems, we’re joined on the next episode of Planet Haliburton by Mike Rahme and Rob Davis, two people with many years of waste water trouble-shooting and septic inspection experience.</p><p><br></p><p>Show Notes: <a href="https://canoefm.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/Background-Resource-for-The-Politics-of-Municipal-Reinspection%E2%80%9D-April-30-2020.pdf" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Background Resources For The Politics Of Municipal Reinspection, April 30, 2020</a></p>