Choosing the Right Septic System Design for Your Property: Factors to Consider

Installing a septic tank is an excellent solution for managing waste, especially if you live in a remote area or prefer to bypass local utility services. Septic tanks, however, come in a wide variety of sizes, forms, and types. Selecting the appropriate tank for your home is vital. Septic tanks are sized based on their… Continue reading Choosing the Right Septic System Design for Your Property: Factors to Consider

Septic System Design 101: Key Components and Their Functions

The planning phase of a new home construction project can be quite exciting. A septic system must also be constructed if there is no adequate sewer connection at the location. Selecting the appropriate septic system for your needs is crucial, and there are many factors to take into account while designing. The rules pertaining to… Continue reading Septic System Design 101: Key Components and Their Functions

Understanding Soil Types: A Crucial Factor in Septic System Design

Regardless of how good your septic system is, it depends on the right soil type to complete the purification process of wastewater in your home. Therefore septic soil testing is pivotal. The soil type in the drain field area determines how efficiently the effluent is filtered and if the water sent back to the water… Continue reading Understanding Soil Types: A Crucial Factor in Septic System Design

The Importance of Proper Septic System Design: Ensuring Environmental Safety

Ensuring proper septic system design is crucial for environmental safety. Many people don’t realize how much it matters. A well-designed septic system can prevent pollutants from entering the groundwater. This helps protect both our health and the ecosystem. Septic system design isn’t just for rural homes; it’s important for any property using a septic tank.… Continue reading The Importance of Proper Septic System Design: Ensuring Environmental Safety

Don’t forget the chicken wire

Don't forget the chicken wire!

In Alberta, chicken wire should always be installed below effluent chambers Effluent chambers… the right way to install them here in Alberta. In Alberta, we are required to use either effluent chambers OR washed gravel in the bottom of the buried trenches. There are advantages and disadvantages of both. If you (or your installer) will… Continue reading Don’t forget the chicken wire

Soil Test Pits For Septic System Design

DIGGING TEST PITS IS WHERE IT ALL STARTS As you have probably already figured out, septic systems are a little more complicated than what they were just 10 or 20 years ago. Regulations for Private Sewage in Alberta go through a code cycle approx every 5 years … and with each code cycle there are… Continue reading Soil Test Pits For Septic System Design

Soils Days Training

Spring 2021 – Mandatory Soils Day Training for new students Another spring, another round of teaching the mandatory soils days for new students. Did you know that this day in the field is required as part of the Private Sewage Certification in Alberta? Red Deer, Grande Prairie, Lethbridge and Cochrane are all destinations where I… Continue reading Soils Days Training

Can you spot the items in the tank?

These things should never be found in a septic tank… can you spot them? I was doing a service on an Advanced Treatment Unit (Orenco AX-20) and was surprised by what I found in the 1st chamber of the septic tank. See if you can spot any of the items: -Coffee grounds / packs -“Disposable”… Continue reading Can you spot the items in the tank?

Onsite Installer – Class Is In Session – Cover Article

Onsite Installer is one of the industry’s largest print and online magazine in USA and Canada. As an active reader, I was more than excited when they reached out to me for a feature story in the February 2021 edition. Here are some excerpts from the article, which you can read the full article by… Continue reading Onsite Installer – Class Is In Session – Cover Article

Calgary Zoo Foundation -Septic System Design Special Project

Although hippo’s weren’t part of the project, I was thrilled to work with the Calgary Zoo Foundation to provide them with a complex septic system design for their special project east of Calgary…

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