QUESTION: What is an ideal septic system?ANSWER: Recently someone asked what components I thought would make up the ideal septic system. Of course my initial reaction was that there is no such thing; that the system needs to be matched to the type of residence or establishment and the particular site and soil characteristics.Giving the question a little more thought, I decided that based on what has been learned about systems over the last 30 years, it is possible to come up with a general profile of an ideal septic system. But we must take into account that adjustments would
