The owner of a three-bedroom home in Ft. Blackmore, Va., wanted to sell, but the conventional drainfield was on a property next door, and that landowner would not grant an easement.
Environmental health specialist John Hyder with the Scott County Health Department evaluated the site for a new drainfield. Shallow soils and a ledge outcrop limited the dispersal area to a 30- by 50-foot section with 15 percent slope. Hyder referred the homeowner to Clifton Carson, authorized onsite soil evaluator/soil scientist at Maxim Engineering in Coeburn.
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