Entries Tagged Septic System Design

Afew months ago, I wrote about new research done on residential water usage and how changing the estimated daily water use can...

It’s difficult to find a silver lining in the wildfires that swept through Sonoma County, California, last fall. Some 250 fires burned...

A benchmark should be relatively permanent, which is why one is often set at a corner of a building, large boulder or some...

In a recent column, I discussed how pumping through an inspection port was a bad practice that has been proven ineffective at...

A reader wrote in with an observation about a practice he had seen lately and a question about system sizing based on...

Is household water use decreasing?A couple of months ago, I read an interesting article in Pumper that referred to a study on...

With land application of septage now banned in Florida as of June 30, the Department of Health and Department of Environmental Protection...

A reader submitted a question recently asking why there was not design guidance for mound systems loaded by gravity. The easy answer...

One of the principles established by our colleague Roger Machmeier at the University of Minnesota was that no matter what role you...

Anew two-day National Association of Wastewater Technicians course covering the principles of onsite system design was conducted at Indiana’s Camp Camby before...

If you are planning to attend the Pumper & Cleaner Environmental Expo International in Indianapolis next February, why not spend two days...