Dealing with challenging onsite installations is nothing new for Rick Maguire, owner of Maguire Backhoe in Virden, Illinois. Besides the usual bad soils and tight spaces, pleasing homeowners occasionally involves solutions requiring more creativity than science. One recent example was a client who designs water parks nationwide. He built a four-bedroom home with an in-ground swimming pool on a half-acre lot on Lake Springfield, but his vision did not include an onsite system.“We still don’t know how the house was built without a septic permit,” Maguire says. “The sandy clay loam and glacial till were too tight for even a
