Cease and desist living?, property owners warning Options

[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!!

[swizz]

You're a bit deeper into land ownership rights than I am capable of providing an educated response.
There is another consideration however, regarding wastewater treatment plants. Throughout my career I have been contracted to perform waterproofing work at wastewater treatment plants in Denver, Boulder, Eagle, and Avon. I spent considerable amounts of time at these plants (months each). Having observed the process repeatedly at these plants (daily basis)... there is a processing stage where the solids and liquids enter very large open tanks. The solids are filtered-out in these tanks. The tanks were always referred to as "the salad bowl". The solids you are referring to are what the salad bowls catch. It is a generally large amount of papers, tissue, some plastics, some trash, and lots of condoms and feminine hygiene products. I am pretty sure that's what goes to the landfills.
The remaining liquid and semi-solid waste is piped to another building where it is reduced/processed to what is called "sludge". This is refined and $SOLD$ by the tanker for agricultural fertilization purposes (yet another great reason to wash your veggies). I would watch these tankers lined up to the building that pumps sludge into the trucks, every day, all day. The tankers are specialized and have sprayers on them.... I have seen these trucks spraying through the growing fields near Greeley and elsewhere, basically everywhere there is major AG.
So... they are not trucking our turds to the dumps. They are turning a steady profit, it's big business. Yet another reason they may want full compliance from people who flush toilets. If they can't have your waste to sell they probably want to find another way to profit and make up for it. I don't think this is specifically useful information regarding your case but just thought I'd throw it out there.
There is your Soylent Green story for the evening.