Water Woes: Homeowners Ignore Importance of Septic Tank Cleaning & Aeration Units

Lake Pontchartrain watershed homeowners are ignoring septic tank cleaning and unplugging their aeration units in alarming numbers, raising pollution concerns.
Water Woes: Homeowners Ignore Importance of Septic Tank Cleaning & Aeration Units
Andrea Bourgeois-Calvin is water-quality program director for the Lake Pontchartrain Basin Foundation. Reach her at 504/836-2235.

Established in 1989, the Lake Pontchartrain Basin Foundation faces a daunting task: to restore and preserve the water quality and habitat in the vast, 10,000-square-mile watershed surrounding Lake Pontchartrain, a shallow and brackish 629-square-mile inland bay that sits just...

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