68% increase by baldwin county sewer service

BCSS is the problem. Read the STATE law. Read the County law. Find a good lawyer not associtated with the county. If you have a septic system you can challenge the county. The statement that you have to replace the septic system if it "fails" should be challenged. If your car brakes fail do you buy a new car or fix the brakes. Go to court with the county as a group. They have lost on forced sewage hook up before. JUST SAY NO! The cities of Fairhope and Daphne spill raw sewage into the Bay and pollute more than septic systems ever could. Call ADEM and check out the spills.

The laws that WERE in the planning and zoning manual for requiring an individual to hook up to sewage had three main points:
The hook up had to be reasonable,available and border your property.
In many cases the county or cities were telling people they had to hook up to these sewer systems even though they did not meet these three main requirements.ie.
$10,000 is not reasonable for someone who makes $35-$40K a year.
In many cases the lines did not border the property at all.
The county got sued and they pulled the REGS.
Now they have companies that run lines and think they can make you hook up to it.
Since when does a public utility MAKE you use their service.
If you have a septic system you MUST challenge their ambiguous definition of failure. Failure is by design not because a part breaks or is antiquated. YOU CAN REPLACE IT!!
Remember, even though these people are using right-of-ways that belong to the county they are not answering to the public service commission and they should.
If they decide to go out of business you are left with a sewage system that doesn't work and nobody is required to pick it up.
The laws regulating these sewage companies need to be completely revamped and all sewage companies need to fall under public service commission instead of letting rogue enterprise dictate to and abuse the public.

clb wrote:

Has anyone looked into hiring a lawyer (CLASS ACTION). This seems to be a violation of antitrust laws, since this is the "public utility" for your area and you have no other option. You guys are getting raped!

I have to agree with you 100% we should all hire a lawyer and file a class action on this guy. This is hard times for everyone the unemployment is the hightest in 26 yrs. and now this too. Raises for everyone has been frozen gas is still over 2.50 a gallon. People are barely making ends meet, and now this !!!! TRY AND HELP PEOPLE NOT DIG DEEPER IN THEIR POCKETS.

Imangttia wrote:

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Well get used to it you jerk. That is the beauty of Forums and Blogs. People can express their feelings which are valid to them and which they might be reluctant to express if they were known. The important thing on Forums and Blogs are peoples' opininons, points of view, replies to posts, etc. Who it is that posts them is not important. If you knew who I was, would it make any difference in what I have to say? Why do you want us to identify ourselves--are you an ambulance chaser who has some schlock lawyer on a retainer ready to sue us if you don't like what we say or are you just some noisy SOB who wants to know if it is your neighbor posting something that irritates you? By the way, could you please identify yourself by giving me your full name, address, social security number, phone number, current employer, credit card numbers, bank account numbers and anything else that you thing I might need to identify you just as you expect the rest of us to identify ourselves.

Sounds like you are the jerk. Only cowards hide behind anonymity. If you feel that strongly about your words, stand behind them and be the person willing to make a difference. Not the coward who throws rocks and hopes to be heard. Better yet, go down to BCSS and ask to see Clarence face to face. I promise you Clarence is not hiding from anyone.

salty dog wrote:

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Sounds like you are the jerk. Only cowards hide behind anonymity. If you feel that strongly about your words, stand behind them and be the person willing to make a difference. Not the coward who throws rocks and hopes to be heard. Better yet, go down to BCSS and ask to see Clarence face to face. I promise you Clarence is not hiding from anyone.

So, I guess Salty Dog is your real name. I guess next, you will be posting as 'Sue'.

He won't come to his meetings where he is the developer of a subvivision, so what makes one think he will see someone else - he sends Daniel Craven, his attorney, to all his meetings. I've been to BCSS, and can't find the man. I've tried to find him at one of his development companies - and can hardly find an address and phone number for those - now who looks like they're hiding???

We have problems people. This sewer rate thing is just one more. Personally, I've put myself on the "vote out all incumbents" bandwagon. Federal, state, local, democrat, republican, whatever. I will vote against every incumbent running for office. Maybe, if enough people do this, the politicos will get the message that they are working for and are answerable to us, the voters! "We the People" need to take this country back...soon.

Outraged wrote:

We have problems people. This sewer rate thing is just one more. Personally, I've put myself on the "vote out all incumbents" bandwagon. Federal, state, local, democrat, republican, whatever. I will vote against every incumbent running for office. Maybe, if enough people do this, the politicos will get the message that they are working for and are answerable to us, the voters! "We the People" need to take this country back...soon.

I'm all for that. If they can't enact term limits then let's do it for them. How else are we going to get rid of the good old boys who have been holding office since their ancestors got off of the Mayflower and still consider it their Devine Right to rule the rest of us?

Outraged wrote:

We have problems people. This sewer rate thing is just one more. Personally, I've put myself on the "vote out all incumbents" bandwagon. Federal, state, local, democrat, republican, whatever. I will vote against every incumbent running for office. Maybe, if enough people do this, the politicos will get the message that they are working for and are answerable to us, the voters! "We the People" need to take this country back...soon.

COUNT ME IN!!