Drainfield Component Articles

The Wasteflow dripline irrigation system from Geoflow is placed directly into the soil at the plant’s root zone, where effluent is released...

Aerated filter system rejuvenates drainfieldProblem: Every home in Glenwood, a 300-home subdivision built in the 1970s in Nebraska, used an individual septic...

Even a historic recession and the closing of a huge automotive plant in the heart of its trade area couldn’t stop Fanning...

As part of recent reader-submitted questions on dosing siphons, there was an inquiry about the squirt height in small-diameter pipe. There are...

The problem facing developers of the J & A RV Park in Winterhaven, Calif., was how to make their 5.4 acres productive....

Fecal coliform from a failed septic system on Purdy Spit, Wash., threatened a potable well and a commercial oyster farm a mile...

A reader recently submitted some questions about the use and operation of siphons in onsite systems. An increasing number of systems are...

When you install or repair an existing septic system, the absorption field size should always be one of the more important design...

Soil erosion has been identified by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency as the number one source of water-quality degradation/pollution. It becomes everyone’s...

Whether you are replacing an outdated onsite system or installing a new one, removing vegetation or disturbing the soil increases the chances...

We’ve discussed how periodically resting all of parts of a drainfield can restore soil infiltration. Next we take a look at how...

In the past few months, we’ve discussed troubleshooting overall onsite system problems. Now let’s take a closer look at troubleshooting a failing...

An unusually heavy snowmelt and series of rainstorms in the Northwestern portion of Wisconsin are causing septic systems to back up. According...

Inspecting onsite systems is not for the fainthearted, as Ray Erb of Thomas H. Erb & Sons in Lititz, Pa., can attest....