Sewer

We have been given the OK to have a septic instead of hooking up to public sewer. There is no public sewer anywhere close and would be cost prohibitive for us to go all the way over to one of the neighborhoods to do that. The health department and South Fort Collins Sanitation District have both agreed to let us put septic on the new property.

The septic posed a challenge with the splitting of the land, we are required to allot 2.29 acres in order to accommodate sewer and leaching field. We ended up having to put more land than we wanted on the front property, but we're over that by now.

So, during our meeting earlier this week, the city mentioned that we would need a letter from the district stating that they have agreed to let us put septic on the new lot.

I just talked to Terry Farrill, the District Engineer, and he said that they do not typically grant to NOT connect to district sewer. They do grant to allow to connect to sewer. Typically, the way it is handled is that our engineer (during the building permit process) will have a letter that states that sewer services are greater than 400' away and that due to cost concerns, septic will be used. Some of these issues seem to be pretty small, but then get bigger, as we've seen with this street design issue.