Dear Editor:
I thought to myself why not be prepared and begin to set a budget for my upcoming costs to hook up to the proposed sewage plant in Erin. I hope that you are sitting down for real numbers.
Plumbing is $12,750 plus taxes and a clause for unforeseen circumstances. Yikes, bad start. New back porch and cedar deck for the ones that must be ripped off of my foundation because of cast iron pipes cemented into my 1904 foundation: $38,000 plus taxes and again the dreaded clause about unforeseen challenges. New driveway is at least a firm price of $7,000 plus taxes. Plus because of the pumping system needed for the plumbing in case of a power outage I can get away with a gas generator and that is only $3,000 plus taxes.
Total cost for my 1904 stucco home on Church Boulevard in Erin, drum roll please …. is only $68,647.
Hey, Mayor Allan Alls, I wish that I could get a brand new septic system like the one that you just got for $17,000 with a 50-year warranty and never pay a cent again. Oh yeah, you don’t live in the sewage system footprint. Lucky you.
Keith Hayward,
Erin