Entries Tagged Drainfield Components

You have a host of choices when it comes to drainfield design, from traditional aggregate to media alternatives. We broke down all these options to help simplify your design process.

It's been 15 years since the U.S. EPA did a comprehensive study on the impact of additives in septic tanks. A more recent study helps, but perhaps it's time for some fresh facts.

An innovative onsite design, custom combo tank and low-profile trench drainfield enable construction of a home on a lot considered unbuildable.

Be sure to remind homeowners that all traffic should be kept off the system to ensure long-term operation and performance.

A Kentucky convenience store’s onsite system replacement required a tight build-out schedule and utilized a small patch of ground.

Virginia contractor Emmett Mitchell credits former boss and mentor Dewey Chaffin for building his skills and igniting a passion for onsite installation.

Hooking up more and more units to a North Carolina trailer park prompted installation of a new advanced treatment system employing recirculating compartments and denitrification.

Connecticut’s Mark Green is a hands-on, cash-buying, race-lovin’ installer who keeps the pedal to the metal to grow his startup business.

Group seeks uses for waste material

Every time Indiana’s Hacker Plumbing and Drilling supplies a new onsite technology, customers emerge to demand more work from the family operation.

Virginia installer Chaffin Excavating works with ACS Design to add a PumpMaxx package pump station for a lakeside decentralized onsite system.