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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15 years ago