Sherry Bradley, who runs the Black Belt Unincorporated Wastewater Project, explains how a new septic system will work for a mobile home in Lowndes County. A year after the Alabama Department of Public Health settled a civil rights complaint over poor sanitation in the Black Belt, nonprofits are moving in to install systems and the state is beginning to sign contracts. (Dennis Pillion/Inside Climate News)
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HOPE HULL — Sherry Bradley beams with pride as a three-stage wastewater filtration system about two-thirds the length of a Volkswagen bus is lowered into the ground beside a mobile home in Lowndes County.
“It’s a Fuji Clean,” she said, pointing out the various components, including the large black settling tanks, and the gray, submarine-looking filter apparatus that comes next in the chain.