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underdog2	Posted 1:30 pm, 10/05/2015
Flash you miss your medicine this morning. No one is advocating anyone do anything against the law here

And how many systems are still straightpiped in this county? I know for a fact they missed several when they went through the county several years ago. There are many that would do the same today if they thought they could get away with it.

Puppy if you knew half of what you claim, you still wouldn't know nothing.

Flash you miss your medicine this morning. No one is advocating anyone do anything against the law here. If the county comes out and tells you that your soil is unsuitable you can simply request the county call the state to come in and check the soil. Its FREE. The only reason I can think of for them not to tell you this is they get embarrassed when the state soil scientist comes in and says there is nothing wrong with this soil. Basking is right, they are scared to death of being sued. Wonder why?

Exactly Flash, it's just that simple. Comply with rules and regulations, no problem.

underdog2	Posted 8:45 pm, 10/04/2015
I think they have to be a soil scientist and the county cant overrule one instead of an engineer. Having them call the state soil scientist in is free.

Soil scientist is not free. I have hired one twice for two different projects that I was doing. You are right though, if they sign off on perc tests and layout, it is out of the counties hands. I have never had a bad dealing with the local inspectors. I knew what was going to be required beforehand and was ready for them the first time they came out. I think part of the problem is that so many still think they can do what they want to in regards to septic systems. That went away many years ago. I have seen it progress from the block or poured tanks to cement tanks, plastic tanks, from terra cotta tail lines to slotted pipe to the chambers.

I too have had a bad experience with ADHD. I just simply wanted to repair my back deck which had been there for years. I was told I needed a building permit, and I couldn't get a building permit until I paid the ADHD $100 to come out to inspect to make sure I was not encroaching on a well or septic (even though the existing structure had been there for years). Anyways, the health dept guy came out, poked around and said he needed to physically see my well. My well is underground, so he told me I would need to dig it up. I talked to a friend who is a building inspector in another county, and he told me NOT to dig up my well to show them where it is located, b/c then they would say that 'new' rules require that a well be accessible above ground, and they were trying to trick me. Needless to say, I scrapped the whole project b/c I was so pissed off. 2 days later, the ADHD came BACK out to my property, for no reason other than to see if I had begun repairs myself. I have no tolerance for their arrogance either, since the guy was barely out of high school.

WOW! I now understand why the article came out in the paper about the slowing down of permits. In all fairness, I've applied for a permit and make the recommended repairs that environmental affairs had asked me to repair. After making the repairs one of the inspectors stated that she would come back out to make sure that the septic was working properly. She showed up on the property without notifying me or anyone else just to "check'." I think she was looking to see if I had started the new addition. Made me mad as hello and I grew angrier with every word she spoke. She told my neighbor one thing and told me another. This repair was and is going to get expensive as hello! I'm outraged but trying to be nice with this group of incompetent inspectors. Can't live with them...Can't live without them.

I think they have to be a soil scientist and the county cant overrule one instead of an engineer. Having them call the state soil scientist in is free.

Andy and his band of morons are terrified of being sued. Anyone now doing a development should just go straight to an engineer and get them to sign off on septic placement, and hand it to the health department to stamp it.

That bunch at the health dept. are nothing but idiots they have cause more problem in Ashe and Watauga than needed be. I worked for a company that cleared and graded a lot of the subdivision called cross creek in Aho. They told the developer that several lots would not perk so the man hired an engineer who had no problem with the lots perking.

At another subdivision we did Andy came out one day and ask me to dig him some perk holes in the middle of a rhododendron thicket. When I started pulling the rhododendron out to make a path he came up telling me I couldn't do that because I was disturbing the ground. I ask him just what he thought was going to happen when I dug the perk holes for him or the 3 foot wide 3 foot deep ditch to install the chambers. A question for which I never could get an answer to.

All Mr.. Miller as to do is get an engineer to sign off on the repairs and the health dept. can't say anything about it.

And they did nothing about that biohazard.

I recall a while back when our very own squatter was living in a place with no working sewer. Many of us posters called our health department. It took weeks for them to even go take a look.

Coy should have not called the health department. He should have found a way to have the tank fixed on a Saturday, covered back up and done before Monday

Possibly so Coop, but anyways i'm outta here work calls!!!

It is very possible that there is a lot more to this story than the article in the newspaper indicates.

Are you surprised by this?

It seems this could have all been averted. Coy miller paid for a service to be performed in a professional manner and he didnt get it. He assumed his only recourse was to fix the septic that had lasted for 55 years. Then the employees take sudden action when they had been ignoring him just like inspections ignored Eustace.

Busy?

Why did the environmental health employee not tell coy miller that environmental health could contact the state to come in and evaluate the soil and possibly over ruling the decision by the health department?

Loved the reference to Eustace Conway.