The Summer Camp Challenge: Dealing With Spikes in Flow

New York’s Onsite Engineering is tasked with building a system that moves 50,000 gallons per day for two months, then sits idled the rest of the year

The Summer Camp Challenge: Dealing With Spikes in Flow

Workers install White Knight WK-200 Microbial Inoculator Generator towers through the septic tank risers. Black boxes house the turbine fans, while the biofilter is to the right. (Photos courtesy of Onsite Engineering)

During the 2018 summer season, wastewater ponding at the toe of a drainfield alerted the owner of a nonprofit girls camp in Kerhonkson, New York, to a serious problem. The Ulster County Health Department closed the 49,400-gpd system and mandated the wastewater be pumped. The...

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