Transitioning a residential institution in Hereford, Arizona, to an assisted living facility required upgrading the onsite system.
The new owner hired Dawn Long, field coordinator and onsite designer for American Septic Service in nearby Sierra Vista, to inspect the system. She found a leaking 10,000-gallon homemade concrete block septic tank and, more than 300 feet from the three buildings, a 7,000-gallon septic tank with drainfield on a 332-by-188-foot-wide easement. “The easement ran through the middle of 10 acres and was barely visible,” Long says. “I saw very little room for expansion.”
Long worked with Peter Livingston, P.E., the engineer of
