The septic re-inspection program for the Oliphant-Howdenvale-Red Bay area has been completed.
WSP engineering consultants says no major red flags were raised.
Michael Varty informed South Bruce Peninsula council over 1,200 properties were re-inspected last summer and 270 remedial action letters were issued — about 20 per cent.
Varty says issuing remedial letters did not mean that those septic systems were on the verge of ruining the environment but more a heads-up that owners were not maintaining the septics which could cause problems down the road.
He says owners need to educate themselves on their sewage systems and make sure they are pumped out regularly and to treat them as a property investment.
Varty points out regular maintainence will give the septic a long operating life.
He says the results in 2014 in the Oliphant area, weren’t much different than the results in 2013 when septics were re-inspected in the Wiarton-Colpoys Bay-Mallory Beach region.
Next up is Sauble Beach.
Varty says residents in that community will start getting letters in April and May asking them to contact WSP to set up an appointment.
The re-inspections will begin in June and go to late September, early October.
The re-inspection program is a four-year project that began in 2013.
After Sauble Beach this summer, the program will look at septics in the Hepworth area in 2016.