What Are The Benefits of a Management Program?
Benefits of a management program are accrued by both the communities developing effective management programs and the individual property owners. They include the following:
Protection of Public Health and Local Water Resources
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Although unquantified, septic system failures in the form of yard backups have been recognized as a public hazard and an insult to natural resources for many years. Improved management practices will minimize the occurrence of failures by insuring (with proper planning, sitting, design, installation, operation and maintenance, and monitoring) that pollutants are adequately treated and dispersed into the environment, thereby reducing risks to public health and local water resources.
There are many documented instances over the past few decades of property values increasing in areas formerly served by failing onsite systems after the area has been sewered. Management programs offer an opportunity to obtain the same level of service and aesthetics as sewered communities at a fraction of the cost, thus providing property appreciation and cost savings.
Ground Water Conservation
A well-managed onsite system will contribute to ground water recharge. Many areas of the United States that have undergone rapid development and sewering are experiencing rapidly declining water tables or water shortages because ground water is no longer being recharged by onsite systems.
Reservation of Tax Base
A well-managed onsite system will prevent small communities from having to finance the high cost of centralized sewers. Many small communities have exhausted their tax base, as the expense of other public safety and education programs, to pay for those sewers. Many communities then entice growth in effort to pay for the systems. Thus destroying the community structure that originally attracted residents.
Life-Cycle Cost Savings
This is a clear indication that in many cases management may pay for itself in terms of lower failure rates and alleviation of the need for premature system replacement: however, this will depend on the types of systems employed and the management program chosen. Documentation of that savings is only now being initiated.
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