More Basic Principles

Good practice calls for the soil treatment unit of an onsite system to be kept natural, level and shallow

By Jim Anderson, Ph.D., and David Gustafson, P.E.
February 08, 2012
Basic Training

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More Basic Principles — No matter which type of trench media is used, trenches should be be installed according to the same basic principles: they should be shallow, on the level, and on the contour, and the soil must be kept natural.

Before we move on to more specific discussions of installing soil treatment units in the coming months, we want to finish our review of basic installation principles.

Last month we explored the principle: Keep It Dry (KID). Our next principle is: Keep It Natural (KIN). All...

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