Dumping Black Water On The Ground?

wa8yxm wrote:

bukhrn wrote:

Bumpyroad wrote:

sdianel wrote:
Illegal in many states. In some states even gray water has to be properly disposed of.

i'd like to see a list of states where it is legal to dump human waste on farm fields.
bumpy

I know for a fact that it used to be done in central NY years ago, it is no longer done.

I will comment on this, IF the farmer calls the septic clean out man and has him dump on the field next to the road a passing person may observer, and report, or if an L.E.O. take action.

If he dumps on the back 40, half a mile from said road on the other side of a hill, by the time the EPA investigates .. his grand children's grandchildren will be dead of old age.

Legal or not, Farmers get away with a lot of things simply because the investigators have no authority to set foot on the land without the farmer's permission. unless they have EVIDENCE of a crime in progress.. Which under the conditions I just sited, they would not have.

Same for an RV.

But in a campground,, Totally different issue, Here it is a public or semi-public place so the investigator may well be invited by someone else, odds of a neighbor seeing and reporting approach 100%.

And... In another thread somewhere (not sure were) is the story of a campground that least water/electric only sites to long term campers.. Well. one camper noticed his neighbor had been on site without moving to the dump station a long, long time. AND he did not have a blue boy waste tote.. Or equivalent, Finally caught him spreading it around and stomping it down... Reported to management.

Wound up being an EPA clean up site, the RVer was forced to move and they dug up quite a bit of dirt, new top soil, new seeding, sanitary disposal (I described all this earlier) and one humongous bill was sent to the offender.


There is an old saying I used to hear when I wore a younger man's cloths.. Everything is legal.... till you get caught.

And when it comes to what farmers spread on their field.

This applies.. Most of the other things I have read (Animals go in the woods and such) Does NOT apply.. But then I was a farm boy. I know what gets spread on the fields and where. Heck, I USED TO SPREAD IT. and Hog is dang close to human both in aroma and content.