Regional septage treatment facility could address growing problem
A patch of land on Wiley Dike Road in Lower Valley is being considered by Flathead County as a location for a septage treatment facility. (JP Edge/Hungry Horse News)
On any given day up to 40,000 gallons of septage waste needs to be pumped from septic tanks in Flathead County and with rapid growth in the area over the past decade suitable land for disposal of that waste has become scarce.
“The challenge that has occurred is that as land has developed there has become more septage but there has become less and less land,” said Bill Buxton with HDR Engineering...
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