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PUBLISHED 12/1/2006 A sewer line. Most of us take for granted that our homes are hooked to one and when we flush our toilets or empty our sinks, the waste will float efficiently away. So the battle over Kern County’s ordinance requiring homes in metropolitan Bakersfield be hooked to a sewer line may seem perplexing. But the dispute between Kern and a group of property owners and developers is really over the area’s orderly growth and provision of services to support the growth. The Rural Land Association this week lost its court challenge to the county’s ban on the use of septic tanks to serve buildings constructed on lots smaller than six acres. The local property owners group contended the county violated state law by failing to show the systems pollute and by failing to follow environmental laws. But Kern County Superior Court Judge Richard Oberholzer threw out the challenge, ruling the county  acted properly to impose the ban. Septic...
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