Grease is the Catalyst for a Full System Replacement

A team of onsite professionals builds and connects a new septic system to a Missouri school and students don’t even miss a beat.

Mar 09, 2016 | by David Steinkraus |

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Grease is the Catalyst for a Full System Replacement — The electrical building at Shelterwood Academy not only has a flashing red light to warn of wastewater system problems, but it also has a buzzer to attract attention. To the right rear of the building is the 7,700-gallon pump tank, and visible on top of it is the custom-made concrete box that holds the drainfield distribution manifold.

Grease is the Catalyst for a Full System Replacement — As drainfield installation continued, Udell Dooley ran the Case backhoe while George Montgomery backfilled a trench with the John Deere skid-steer. After a trench was dug, another worker spent all his time clearing old tree roots, which are visible in the photo.

Grease is the Catalyst for a Full System Replacement — Half of the concrete tank for the Bio-Microbics FAST unit is in place at Shelterwood Academy in Missouri. The tank has a seam with a tongue and groove and was sealed with standard mastic.

Grease is the Catalyst for a Full System Replacement — Mike Wilcox works on one of the drainfield zones. Because the slope of the ground was so great, each zone had to be split into subzones to ensure there was enough water pressure to fill all the laterals. A Spectra laser level is in the background.

Grease is the Catalyst for a Full System Replacement — A beige box behind Shelterwood Academy holds a backup generator. The generator’s propane tank is out of the picture, and all the generator controls are in the gray building at left, which also holds the control panel for the wastewater system. Between the generator and a school building are two Polylok risers that mark the location of a pair of 2,000-gallon pretreatment tanks.

Grease is the Catalyst for a Full System Replacement — The Bio-Microbics FAST system includes this Gast Regenair blower model R6150J-2 cfm open 60/50 Hz: 215. The chamber holding the unit is vented with a single 6-inch pipe.

Shelterwood Warning Light 5

Shelterwood Trench And Fill 32

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Shelterwood Lpp Trench 13

Shelterwood Electrical Gear 2

Shelterwood Blower 7

Shelterwood Academy had a grease problem, and that led to a septic problem, and that led the Missouri school to seek help from Residential Sewage Treatment Company.The school has been around since the 1980s and provides Christian-based therapy for troubled teens. Its wastewater system is more recent, although Jason Vaughn of Residential Sewage is not sure how old it is. The old system consisted of six septic tanks, a drainfield and no grease trap. (One was installed after the problem was discovered.) As grease plugged the drainfield, water began appearing on the surface of the ground, and that led the

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