Owners of a 147- by 126-foot-wide lot on Raccoon Island in Lake Hopatcong, N.J., wanted to renovate their two-bedroom seasonal home and needed to upgrade the onsite system. The general contractor recommended Joe Mayers, proprietor of Septic Experts in Sussex, N.J. He worked with Howard Bach, P.E., of Sparta, N.J., to design the system.
“Besides limited space, the lot was accessible only by boat and the elevation rose 20 feet in the 56 feet from the beach to the house,” says Mayers. “Shallow soils, an exposed ledge, and distances to structures ruled out a drainfield.”
Bach chose the Puraflo peat fiber biofilter
