When I started working in the onsite industry, it was as a researcher studying the movement of water (effluent) through the soil. This is a rather narrow slice of everything that goes on relative to an onsite wastewater treatment system. If you take a step back and look at a system as a whole, it’s not long before you realize that having long-lasting systems requires a lot of effort on everyone’s part: from the regulatory agencies to the homeowner, designer, installer, service provider and others.
To this day, some 40 years later, it’s my opinion that way too often there is
