When the dam failed at Lake Delhi in northeastern Iowa in 2010, the state agreed to help Delaware County and local property...
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Student Engineers Learn the Value of Decentralized Wastewater Treatment
Septic System Design Articles
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Does the System Have a Problem? You Better Know the Flow.
Afew months ago, I wrote about new research done on residential water usage and how changing the estimated daily water use can...
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Encouraging Reconstruction After Wildfires
It’s difficult to find a silver lining in the wildfires that swept through Sonoma County, California, last fall. Some 250 fires burned...
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Using a Benchmark to Establish Septic System Elevation
A benchmark should be relatively permanent, which is why one is often set at a corner of a building, large boulder or some...
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“What’s Wrong With Pumping Through an Inspection Port?”
In a recent column, I discussed how pumping through an inspection port was a bad practice that has been proven ineffective at...
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It’s Bad Advice: You Want Another Bedroom? Just Add a Closet!
A reader wrote in with an observation about a practice he had seen lately and a question about system sizing based on...
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Is It Time to Rethink Daily Water Use Numbers?
Is household water use decreasing?A couple of months ago, I read an interesting article in Pumper that referred to a study on...
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Rules and Regs: Temporary Variances Give Florida Pumpers Time to Find Alternative Disposal Methods
With land application of septage now banned in Florida as of June 30, the Department of Health and Department of Environmental Protection...
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Do We Need Design Guidance for Mound Systems?
A reader submitted a question recently asking why there was not design guidance for mound systems loaded by gravity. The easy answer...
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You Should Know These Basic Onsite Design Principles
One of the principles established by our colleague Roger Machmeier at the University of Minnesota was that no matter what role you...
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NAWT System Design Principle Course Enlightens Pumpers Before Expo
Anew two-day National Association of Wastewater Technicians course covering the principles of onsite system design was conducted at Indiana’s Camp Camby before...
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Join the ‘New’ NAWT for a Pre-Expo Course
If you are planning to attend the Pumper & Cleaner Environmental Expo International in Indianapolis next February, why not spend two days...
