There are many septic tanks in Cherokee County. Do septic tanks ever leak raw sewage?
It is worth noting that highly regulated public sewer infrastructure provides wastewater treatment for individual homes and business that would otherwise need to use poorly regulated individual septic tanks or, potentially, private wastewater treatment facilities. The number of spills and the amount of runoff from septic tanks in Cherokee County is a huge unknown. The damage to our water resources from septic tank spills and runoff is difficult to quantify.
