It’s an Uphill Battle For a Connecticut Residential System

Intensive excavation, a Scavenger effluent pump and Eljen Corporation treatment modules help create a level playing field on a challenging home site

Oct 09, 2017 | by Scottie Dayton |

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It’s an Uphill Battle For a Connecticut Residential System — Jovany Sandoval from Green Construction Management mixes mortar in front of the 4-inch pipe connecting the United Concrete Products Low-boy septic tank to the dose tank.

It’s an Uphill Battle For a Connecticut Residential System — Wayne Green from Green Construction Management shovels sand to hold the fabric in place.

It’s an Uphill Battle For a Connecticut Residential System — Jovany Sandoval (foreground) and Wayne Green from Green Construction Management use a Spectra Precision/Trimble LL500 laser level with grade rod (Crain surveyor style) to check elevations before covering the modules with an inch of sand.

It’s an Uphill Battle For a Connecticut Residential System — Wayne Green (foreground) and Jovany Sandoval from Green Construction Management prepare to shoot grades with a Spectra Precision/Trimble LL500 laser level. (Photos courtesy of Green Construction Management)

It’s an Uphill Battle For a Connecticut Residential System — View of the filled and graded property. The homeowner asked Green to put the row of small rocks along the toe of the slope.

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Sewage percolating from saturated ground spelled trouble for the owners of a three-bedroom home in Newtown, Connecticut. The couple hired an engineer whose system design required removing the water and gas lines to install, and it didn’t meet setbacks. The local health department rejected the plan.A friend of the couple recommended Mark Lancor, P.E., principal engineer at DYMAR in Southbury, Connecticut. Lancor took Mark Green, owner of Green Construction Management in Waterbury, Connecticut, with him to do soil tests. “The only area for a drainfield that met setback requirements was 92 feet up a 1:1 wooded hill behind the house,”

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