The city of Redlands is 63 miles east of Los Angeles, still part of urban Southern California but not entirely served by sewer.“Because of the topography, there are a lot of little canyons. They couldn’t have gravity-flow sewer for the whole city, so a large percentage of the homes are on septic systems,” says Zekai Nazikoglu, president of American Septic Services Inc. in Redlands. “A lot of people don’t know, when they buy expensive houses, that they’re on septic.”His onsite project in Redlands involved the addition of a 900-square-foot house at the back of a 0.37-acre lot. Typically these are
