ABSTRACT:
Rural and suburban development has been and will continue to depend upon private on-site sewage disposal systems. Changing technologies for sewage disposal that reduce sire limitations to development have raised a broad set of land use concerns. Based on a study in Wisconsin, the impacts of new sewage technologies on rural sprawl and agricultural and forest land conversion are no different than that of conventional on-site systems. However, these new technologies add to the development pressures on certain land areas, making the use of traditional health-oriented land use regulatory policy increasingly ineffective for managing land use.
Footnotes
Harvey M. Jacobs and Mark E. Hanson are assistant processors in the Department of Urban and Regional Planning and the Institute for Environmental Studies, University of Wisconsin, Madison, 53706. They acknowledge the work of three graduate students who assisted in the original research from which this article is drawn: Elizabeth D. Ham, K. Leigh Leonard, and Kerri J. Simmons. Funding for the research was provided by the Wisconsin legislature.
- Copyright 1989 by the Soil and Water Conservation Society
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