Flathead’s water quality can’t afford rollbacks
Each time our local leaders — whether the Flathead City-County Board of Health or the county commissioners — navigate changes to environmental regulations, they must answer one foundational question: "Does this action increase the protection of water quality in the Flathead Basin, or does it add to the cumulative negative impacts that scientific reports warn we must reverse?"
Recently, our county commissioners took a step backward. By adopting a resolution to allow gravity-fed septic drain fields in place of the more protective Uniform Pressure Distribution systems, they chose a path that is factually and scientifically unsupported.
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