Craig Summers, a local resident, is worried the system will pollute the water in the small, picturesque cove. "There's a lot of swimming and boating," he told CBC News.

Gov. Kathleen C. Hochul on Wednesday signed a law to make it easier and more financially viable for homeowners and small businesses to upgrade their septic systems to the latest technologies, in an ...

One recommendation addressed the 2.5 million (their estimate) unregulated and uninspected “onsite sewage treatment and disposal systems,” commonly called septic tanks, which are scattered ...

The system there is estimated to cost about $2.2 million. “They’ve got to realize that it’s going to cost people a lot of money,” he said.

So Baker has seen firsthand the limits of the building’s small septic system. The tenants can’t have a washing machine, she said, and without a laundromat in town, she has to lug her laundry ...