The good news is that installer Frank Schmitz deals with uniform soil conditions through most of his coastal Georgia territory. The bad news: Those conditions are uniformly challenging.Schmitz and his wife, Cameron, operate Septic Works of the Lowcountry out of Savannah. From the coastline to about 75 miles inland, the soils are sand over a low water table. That rules out most conventional septic systems.“Everywhere we deal with in this whole floodplain area, we have to do a lot of mound systems,” says Schmitz. “Those systems also use mostly alternative drainfield media and, in many cases, plastic septic tanks.”The Septic
