On Thu, 2019-12-05 at 20:03 +1100, Dr.bob Jansen wrote: > This is interesting. This is equivalent to being taxed for going off > grid or buying bottled water instead of connecting to the water > mains.
Yep. We live in rural NSW and have a septic tank. Works fine; never had a leak, an overflow in twenty years. The drainage works well, there is no downhill sign of it (lushness grass, softness etc). The local council charges us $20/year to have a septic. Allegedly to cover necessary inspections which strangely weren't necessary - and never happened - before the charge was introduced. Even more strangely, in ten years we've had one (1) inspection, which therefore cost us $200. We can have the damn thing pumped out and cleaned for less than that. But the "service charges" of the energy companies are way the worst. Regards, K. -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Karl Auer ([email protected]) http://www.biplane.com.au/kauer http://twitter.com/kauer389 GPG fingerprint: 8D08 9CAA 649A AFEF E862 062A 2E97 42D4 A2A0 616D Old fingerprint: A0CD 28F0 10BE FC21 C57C 67C1 19A6 83A4 9B0B 1D75 _______________________________________________ Link mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.anu.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/link
