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septic easements
Tell me about septic easements.
A portion of the town site was laid out in lots that are too small for a septic. The original 1960s plat says those lots are “only to be used for mobile homes and RVs”, with a length limit of 55 feet. What happens is that people buy them ambitiously, find out they can’t get city water without approved septic, find out they’d have to buy an adjacent parcel to have enough room for a pair of septic drainfields (the built one and the equal-sized reserved area for the replacement septic), and abandon the lot to the county. Someone else buys it at a tax auction and holds it in the hopes that another sucker will come along and buy an adjacent lot and pay $5K for a $500 lot so as to have room for septic. And it happens about once a decade. Meanwhile that whole section of town has entire blocks vacant and undeveloped.
Seems like with the right septic easements, one of those tax auction lots could provide enough space for a community septic system and drainfields for the rest of the block.
Are septic easements generally across private property, do cities or counties ever allow them in the right of way?
How is it any different from city sewer easements?
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