51.   Such subdivisions sometimes end up with inadequate septic systems, poor drainage and dirt driveways that serve as streets and become impassable by school buses and emergency vehicles.

52.   Sumber explained that in some areas of the state, a septic system or well installed on one property may be shared by an adjoining property.

53.   The ditches must be dug by hand because of the network of sprinklers, aerobic septic system, utility lines and buried bodies beneath the soil.

54.   The developer, William Swinney of Del Valle, who also installed the septic systems, could not be reached for comment.

55.   The Giuliani administration has set aside the funds to upgrade sewage treatment plants and septic systems, reduce pollution and acquire land upstate.

56.   The regulations also require all private septic systems to be inspected up to nine months before or six months after the transfer of title or expansion.

57.   The septic system was relocated to a new site away from the wetlands.

58.   The sewage spills from thousands of houses lacking septic systems or access to treatment plants.

59.   There was the skirmish with county Health Department officials over the placement of septic systems.

60.   They live in neighborhoods with leaking septic systems and poor drainage.