We have written before about soil characteristics, but recently we’ve received a variety of questions that revolve around identifying soil properties. So it appears we should address these issues again. It is also important to do this because as part of a national project conducted by the Consortium of Institutes for Decentralized Wastewater Treatment (CIDWT) to develop educational materials for installers, we hear some people saying that there is too much emphasis on soils, and that installers only need to be able to read a plan and install what a site evaluator or engineer puts on it. As we have
