Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Public access to sewer and water?

[Stuart Joseph (stuart]

April,

April wrote:
> But the rural areas have no access to water or sewer, for the most part, as 
> even a fair amount of the villages do not have water and sewer.  (The hamlet 
> I'm in is only getting sewer next year, and has no plans for public water.) 
> Which is why I'm trying to get a handle on the difference between the cost 
> of public access and private well/septic.  I do think there are interesting 
> tradeoffs available and I'm wondering what others, in this situation, have 
> opted to do.
>   
We are getting raw land and putting in our own septic and wells with a 
common sewer line to the leach field. I think it is difficult to figure 
the cost difference as each situation is different depending upon the 
geology of the land. We had to put our leach field outside the village 
area because there was no place that was suitable for the leach field, 
so each house will have a septic tank and the product that comes out of 
the tank will be  pumped to the leach field. We had thought that we 
could put our leach field near the village originally and had to change 
plans once the tests were done.

Costs of septic systems can also vary, especially when getting into 
non-standard types like above ground.
> Thanks to you both,
> April
>   

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Stuart Joseph, 802-463-1954
Project Director
Caer Coburn, a traditional village based upon cohousing  and intentional 
communities in
Rockingham, Vermont, USA
http://www.caercoburn.org
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Bellows Falls, VT 05101 USA