Charlie Doley has spent most of his adult life working in back yards, installing onsite wastewater treatment systems. “When I started, we installed traditional subsurface beds for single-family homes,” says Doley, owner of Pikeland Construction Inc. in Kimberton, Pa. “Today, the back yards are much bigger and so are the systems.” Doley now installs drip irrigation systems that serve entire neighborhoods, schools and other high-volume developments.The company, with a crew of 25 field and office workers, serves roughly a 200-mile radius that includes big parts of Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware and Maryland. The firm takes a custom approach to each
