Entries Tagged Onsite Septic System

For those of us who live in colder climates, winter is right around the corner. Both during construction and with existing systems...

Cities are one of the last places you might expect on-site wastewater recycling, but in late September the San Francisco Board of...

Topography and landscape position are the first things seen when the site is visited. In the broadest sense, topography describes the physical...

c Polyethylene/Polypropylene Polyethylene/polypropylene “poly" tanks can be rotationally molded in one piece or injection molded in two pieces. Some early poly tanks were prone...

Most septic systems remove phosphorus by absorption and precipitation in the soil treatment system. Septic professionals and property owners should consider first...

Consistence describes how easy it is to deform or break up the soil. Consistence is used to determine if the soil contains...

Soil color is often used to determine seasonal high water table (SHWT) for system design. The soil treatment area bottom (or infiltrative...

It’s no secret to installers that onsite septic systems are critical infrastructure. But perhaps just as important is the community education and...

Hydrogen sulfide problems are most common in wells drilled into acidic bedrock such as shale and sandstone; produced by certain “sulfur bacteria”...

Recently we were sent a few pictures of an installation by a reader that showed two workers walking back and forth in...

While soil texture describes the percentage of each size class (sand, silt and clay), soil structure is the organization of these individual soil particles...

Soil texture refers to the percent of sand, silt and clay in the soil. Most soil descriptions follow the United States Department...

When Scott Chase was approached by a master gardeners group to present a program on landscaping over septic system drainfields, his first...

People living around Lake George in upstate New York have expressed concerns for several years about algae and pollution in the lake....