Sewer supervision in Arkansas: Judge pushing for government oversight of decentralized sewers
Nancy Levy sends this interesting story of a judge's efforts to corral private sewer systems in many real estate developments (many probably run by HOAs) under some sort of governmental supervisory umbrella:

County Judge Jerry Hunton has spent this month cultivating his push for governmental involvement in the supervision of decentralized sewer systems installed in Washington County. Hunton initially planted the seed of supervision in May at a Rural Development Authority meeting, at which he proposed the body consider filling a managerial role over the systems. "We need to set up an authority that would oversee these decentralized sewers in unincorporated parts of the county," Hunton said Tuesday. "We simply need an authority that says how they’re going to be managed in the long term, that if there’s a need for replacement parts and replacement fields, to make sure the money is there and generated by that subdivision."