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borg
2008-07-19 17:57:37
Infiltrator use discouraged by county
Our county health department requires us to have 150 square foot of
volume in the drain field useing infiltrators!
Is this typicle or is it just our county?
They gave us a paper or the requirements for various sizes of
infiltrator type systems, and they all seemed to require much more
square footage than it seems would be nesisary.
Why different requirements than for the regular clay pipe systems?
Seems to me they are trying to discourage there use, but why since
they work so much better and are inexpensive, so we thought anyway.
We have decent soil absorbtion here in Florida and they don't do
perculation tests, rather they say that the hight above sea level is
the perculation test. This makes no since as soil absorbtion would
have nothing to do with height above sea level, unless of course if
you were at or below it. We are at about 150 foot here in our county.
Any information would be greatly appreciated.
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Caesar Romano
2008-07-20 04:39:17
Re: Infiltrator use discouraged by county
On Sat, 19 Jul 2008 17:57:37 -0700 (PDT), borg <[email protected]> wrote
Re Infiltrator use discouraged by county:
>Our county health department requires us to have 150 square foot of
>volume in the drain field useing infiltrators!
>Is this typicle or is it just our county?
Varies by county.
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BillGill
2008-07-20 08:28:02
Re: Infiltrator use discouraged by county
borg wrote:
> We have decent soil absorbtion here in Florida and they don't do
> perculation tests, rather they say that the hight above sea level is
> the perculation test. This makes no since as soil absorbtion would
> have nothing to do with height above sea level, unless of course if
> you were at or below it. We are at about 150 foot here in our county.
> Any information would be greatly appreciated.
I assume that in common with most of Florida your soil is mostly sand,
with very little clay in it. Under those conditions a perc test is
very unlikely to fail.
Bill
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dpb
2008-07-20 09:08:09
Re: Infiltrator use discouraged by county
borg wrote:
...
> We have decent soil absorbtion here in Florida and they don't do
> perculation tests, rather they say that the hight above sea level is
> the perculation test. This makes no since as soil absorbtion would
> have nothing to do with height above sea level, ...
In your portion of FL probably has virtually everything to do with it,
being a good indication of distance to water table...
ps. A spell checker w/ your newsreader wouldn't be a bad idea...
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