santa cruz county: Santa Cruz County Septic Loan Program - 05/12/08 10:10 AM
Santa Cruz county home owners have some government help locally. As with many rural areas in Santa Cruz County,there is no sewer, and the toilet and greywater waste are disposed of in a septic system. These systems which are basically a 1000-2000 gallon holding tanks for solids, and trenches to leach the water back into the ground, have been around for many decades. For those city dwellers, this method has been used for hundreds of years, and even longer in more primitive fashion throughout civilization. In the San Lorezo Valley you need to own at least 1 acre to be able
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santa cruz county: Santa Cruz,California, Recycling Christmas - 12/26/07 07:13 PM
Santa Cruz County recycling of Christmas stuff Christmas can be a delightful time for all, even for the environment. Granted we drive around a lot which isn't, but at least we have fun wrapping and unwrapping gifts and being responsible. The deluge of boxes and paper can be recycled with some forethought. The wrapping paper is not good for woodstoves with catalytic converters, but is good for wrapping other smaller gifts. Unwrap carefully and you can re-use the paper and the bows or ribbons. The less of this stuff that ends up in the land fill means the county won't have to buy
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santa cruz county: The Santa Cruz County population is increasing. - 12/26/07 01:16 PM
The Santa Cruz area has had an increase in it's population this past year of 1.16%. While this is not a huge amount, it is some what surprising as we have had increasing prices. Right now the values are a bit softer and we may see a net decrease as we had in California in the early 90's. To check prices locally, you can go to http://www.cacoastalhome.com. Back then the national economy was the problem. The national recession had hit and California was delayed in being affected. So after the boom of the late 80's we fell on hard times here
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