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Wastewater Treatment: What Does It Cost the Homeowner?

CED-79-35 Published: Feb 13, 1979. Publicly Released: Feb 13, 1979.
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The impact the high cost of constructing waste treatment projects is having on individual users expressed on a per household basis is addressed. It is expensive to construct, finance, operate, and maintain a conventional wastewater treatment system. As the costs of such systems increase in absolute terms, so do the homeowner's costs.

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Cost analysisCost controlEnvironmental policiesWastewater treatmentUser feesHomeownershipPublic officialsEnvironmental protectionConstructionPublic works