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[Denise]

Just when I think things can't get any worse, the county comes and messes with us. They are telling us that we need to cease and desist living on our property (after being here over 7 years) because we are using an outhouse. If we had the money to buy a well then put a septic tank in we would!! As of the 31st, they are charging us $50.00 a day if we remain on our property. No where to go so they have a fight on their hands. I don't take kindly to being told that I am health hazard and a nuisance to the community. Court date is set for July 11th.

Pretty sad world we live in when the officials try to make property owners homeless!!

[johnnybravo300]

I wonder how they can think that way when most cities are the dirtiest places with rabid animal issues and diseases and where do they think the homeless defecate? There is literally crap and urine everywhere in the cities and to me an outhouse is much more sanitary than an inside crapper.
It gives me the creeps to drop a duece in the same dwelling I eat in. I don't keep my tooth brush or mouth thermometers or medicines or things like that out there. That would be weird...but it's normal inside of a house?
When I see someones toothbrush sitting out in their bathroom it sends a shiver up my spine haha.
My outhouse is very sanitary and custom built "log cabin" style with boards recycled from when they replaced the docks at blue mesa reservoir and it's nice. It has a plexiglass ceiling so you can see the sky and rock landscaping all around it and a bunch of racks and dead heads decorating the outside.
We did install a holding tank underneath last summer and I moved the privy but it wasn't a legal requirement. I made the choice because I was tired of moving the entire thing every few years.
I know that the clean water act that was passed had tons more regs also, and that is causing some people grief. It's only supposed to affect navigable waterways but then when you see 1000's of cows crapping everywhere in the watershed you would think they'd be a little concerned with that.
With the pollution and toxins that we are legitimately exposed to everyday in our water food and air it seems asanine for them to be worried about that.
This goes to show that it isn't about safety or real concerns, but control.
I can understand you guys frustrations because I would be if it was me.
What a bunch of tyrannical bs.