Entries Tagged Soil Treatment

Though only a portion of her company’s business, keeping up with the latest in septic design keeps Carol Ohm on the state’s association board

Evaluating conventional soil treatment units

The Munsell guide and field procedures can help system designers make the right call when locating soil treatment areas on properties with seasonal saturation issues

Many early mound systems were designed to overcome the challenges of slumping soils

Follow these decommissioning tips to prevent dangerous collapses, ongoing pollution issues and unnecessary underground obstacles in a customer’s yard

Careful planning with architects, engineers and designers is critical to making sure tricky systems in rocky soil remain profitable for the installer

You’ve gone online and checked the soil characteristics of your site. Now walk the land and create the appropriate treatment system.

If you start with bad soils data, the risk is high for design flaws that will cripple your new system

Identifying critical information during the review and bidding process can help avoid problems and make for a smooth installation

Be prepared for growing regional precipitation and drought conditions that will change the regulations and design of onsite systems.

An AMA is generally used for remediation of systems having issues with wastewater acceptance in the soil treatment area, but they can also be used to improve effluent quality for a new system