Recently someone posed this question: My local regulator says I need to do a landscape and slope analysis when I design a system I will be installing. Exactly what is this and why is it important?This led me to take a look back at the regulations in Minnesota and, sure enough, part of the field design phase for a sewage project requires a description of the following surface features: percent and direction of slope, vegetation types, evidence of cut and fill or other disturbance, flooding or run-on potential, and geomorphic description.So vegetation types and evidence of cut and fill are
