Optima Properties wanted to build a private waterfront community at Smith Mountain Lake in Union Hall, Va., and commissioned Dan Early, P.E., of ACS DESIGN in Roanoke, Va., to design a decentralized wastewater treatment system. Bidding on the project was by invitation only.
Emmett Mitchell of Chaffin Excavating in Bedford, Va., won the bid to install the pump station and drainfields. “I had the option of installing concrete tanks for the pumps, a utility vault with flowmeters and valves, and splitter box or using PumpMaxx, a packaged pump station,” he says. “I bid on just the vessel, because I’d installed them
