Large-scale wastewater treatment systems are the bread and butter for Danny Brown, owner of KESS Environmental Services in Lowndesboro, Ala.Not a fan of big pipe systems for large new-development neighborhoods, Brown eschews the inter-basin transfers, lack of groundwater recharge and high energy demands that accompany most of these systems. Instead, he prefers to keep the appropriately treated effluent close to its source through the use of drip irrigation as the final stage in the treatment cycle.“We are installing systems that are designed to eventually serve as many as 2,500 homes,” he says. That works out to a whopping 2 mgd
