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Most septic system installers will be able to do that. Siting within the property will need some info as to lot, boundaries, and prior systems, well location (if any), and neighbors' wells locations.
Dick Skidmore - Lives in Winn, but will go anywhere.
207-735-8041
I'm on a planning board and he does great septic designs at minimal costs. Some "soils guys" get carried away and create unnecessarily expensive and complex plans - especially if they are employed by the contractor.
The design is based on bedrooms and soil types. I have a system on a slope. Not all septic systems have to be on flat ground.I have a geotex system and it is much less expensive than creating a large flat area on a hillside. Trouble free for 30 years.
Got it. Hey, we are on top of a mountain in VA.... no flat land in our lot. The fingers of the drain field had to be staggered down a slope and curved to run along the elevation contours. I thought everyone did it like that LOL.
The guy who designed and installed it also did our excavating. Freddie Dedrick. He could not read, and could only barely write his name (taught by his wife), but he could cypher (do arithmetic) and do quotes. And he sure could run a dozer or tracked loader or backhoe, and lay in a well drained road with just his eye. The last of an older generation who never hesitated to work with his hands, and made a success of it.
I'm on a local planning board. About 25 years ago, a businessman wanted to do a subdivision in town; came to me becsuse I do not gossip. He could not fill out the application because he could not read. He ran a very successful saw mill. I made up a set of affidavits for the questions he had to answer.
"I James Jones certify that this subdivision will not overburden the municipal sewage treatment system." We have no system. Same with water, traffic, etc. Subdivision was approved. Ten 3 acre lots where his young employees could slide a used mobile home in there and start a family.
That kit is now available to anybody. We are a low hassle town.
Here, you dig a hole in the ground where you want the septic tank to go and an gov't inspector comes out and fills the hole with water to test how long it takes for the water to disappear.
When the inspector signs off on the site, you just get a septic tank company to come out to dig a hole and field line trenches, drop in the septic tank and field lines before back filling the trenches with gravel.
The size of the tank and length of field lines is decided by how many bathrooms you have.
My new house has one of the new generation septic systems. What's never been told is that there are two plastic ports on the surface at ground level. One side has a 3' long plastic filter that needs to be lifted out and hosed off every 6 to 9 months so you can be assured the liquids go out into the field lines. And the solids in the other side need to be vacuumed out every 8-10 years, depending on usage. It's a dirty job, but someone's got to do it.
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