There are much more significant issues in play here than can be resolved by lake management districts and local taxing authority. In Tumwater there is one mobile home community that is slated to have it's septic systems replaced by a sewer connection in order to protect and improve the local water supply. It is being done with a Washington state Department of Ecology grant and money from the city. A few years ago the League of Women Voters of Thurston County offered a series of presentations on water in this part of Puget Sound that was very reveling of the issues at stake with surface water, ground water, aquifers, river flows, population growth and climate change. A similar presentation was also done by another LWV group in North Puget Sound. The long and short of it is that increasing amounts of nutrients are finding an easy path from septic systems into lake waters. This allows for overgrowth of aquatic vegetation, in turn choking off the life in these lakes. Unfettered development without the attendant infrastructure (sewers) over decades has now caused the chickens to come home to roost. Lake management districts are a band aid on a gunshot wound and will never solve the problem. It is time to eliminate these septic systems and private wells and build the systems that will sustain our growth and well being into the future. The cost of doing this now is enormous but the cost of continuing to band aid over the wounded environment is even worse.
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