A homeowner recently sent in a question about the installation of an onsite treatment system. The system was going to be installed quite a distance downslope of the house and the homeowner wondered if special precautions should be taken in terms of the piping from the house to the septic tank and the system.
The answer is yes, precautions should be taken when laying piping between components from the house to the septic tank. Some of them are just part of good pipe installation, and a few precautions are directly related to the steep slope.
In terms of good pipe installation,
