bordercollie050
Member
Hello everyone!
I'm getting closer to installing my septic system and with my tank placement (approx 200ft from house) I'm at 20" deep on my drainfield lines. I had a few septic people over to bid on the job and they think that's too deep??? (code says up to 36") (bids came in around 7-9k for 1500gal tank and 300' of leach line)
Also, the area is a bit on the saturated side but does genly slope downhill (about 1" of hill every 5 ft). And I have access to a road ditch running parallel (so I could run field tile and futher drain this area off) BUT at the moment, any hole deeper than 3 ft fills with ground water (to the 3ft line) and there is A LOT of clay (I know, bad situation)
I would like to use a gravelless system but gravel is so cheap here and I dont really trust the "drain tile pipe" wrapped in foam chips - standard gravelless (i.e. if some clown drive over my field it seems they would get damaged vs schedule 40 PVC
I'm getting closer to installing my septic system and with my tank placement (approx 200ft from house) I'm at 20" deep on my drainfield lines. I had a few septic people over to bid on the job and they think that's too deep??? (code says up to 36") (bids came in around 7-9k for 1500gal tank and 300' of leach line)
Also, the area is a bit on the saturated side but does genly slope downhill (about 1" of hill every 5 ft). And I have access to a road ditch running parallel (so I could run field tile and futher drain this area off) BUT at the moment, any hole deeper than 3 ft fills with ground water (to the 3ft line) and there is A LOT of clay (I know, bad situation)
I would like to use a gravelless system but gravel is so cheap here and I dont really trust the "drain tile pipe" wrapped in foam chips - standard gravelless (i.e. if some clown drive over my field it seems they would get damaged vs schedule 40 PVC