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A review of the 23 which could not a?equately install a new <br />system reveals that it would likely be o: little value in many <br />instances to condemn and remove some of the existing residences, <br />because the vacant land made available by such procedure would <br />not necessarily be suitable for development of septic systems to <br />serve the remaining houses. To elaborate on this, first consider <br />the situation of Eastlake Street. The 8 existing houses on the <br />south side in every case do not have any suitable area for septic <br />systems because of the creek. If half of those houses were <br />removed, the vacant land remaining would still not be suitable <br />for installation of septic systems. Similarly, looking at Tonka <br />Avenue and Crestview Avenue, if half of the houses were removed, <br />the vacant land resulting would still have steep slopes and high <br />water table clay soils, being poorly suited for development of <br />new septic systems. Looking at the Westlake Street area, it <br />would appear that this is the most likely area for possible <br />consideration of selective condemnation, but it would have to be <br />accompanied by a re -development or re -platting process so that <br />the long, narrow, unusable land areas would be reshaped into <br />sites suitable for septic system development. <br />Other concerns resulting from a re -development process are: <br />A) it would be unwise to locate new drainfields over abandoned <br />wells; and B) the removal of houses and filling in the basement <br />excavations would tend to create areas of soil unsuitable for use <br />as drainfield. Neither compacted soils or fill soils are <br />suitable for drainfield development. <br />To summarize, the additional land made available by <br />selective condemnation in most cases in the Stubbs Bay area would <br />not have a substantial effect on the capability for repairing <br />neighboring septic systems. Also, while a few specifi, problem <br />sites might be benefitted by acquisition of a neighboring <br />property, this expenditure does net necessarily solve the entire <br />neighborhood problem on a long-term basis. <br />24 <br />