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Published daily in Bend, Oregon, by Western Communications, Inc. Copyright 2007.
By Kate Ramsayer / The Bulletin
April 4, 2007
Flush a toilet, run a load of laundry or dump leftovers down the disposal, and the waste has to go somewhere.
In many houses in south Deschutes County, it's treated in on-site septic systems and then dispersed through installed sand filters or natural rock layers into the ground. And while those....