Ajasa Samuel

If there's a spot in your yard that stays soggy for three days after a storm, you're in good company. We get this call more than almost any other from homeowners around Milledgeville, and most of the time the person on the phone has already tried something. A load of dirt. A few bags of gravel. A drainpipe from the hardware store that looked like a sure thing. Sometimes those work. A lot of the time they just move the puddle six feet over. So before you spend any money, here's how we'd walk...

Georgia does not issue a septic installer's license through a licensing board. The Department of Public Health certifies you, and the certification is what makes the work legal. The distinction matters when you go looking for it, because searching for a contractor license number gets you into the wrong system entirely. What you want is DPH Environmental Health, on-site sewage certification, under Chapter 511-3-1. The short version Pass the residential installer exam with at least 70 per cent....

Georgia red clay and Coastal Plain sand behave very differently under a drain field. Here is what the soil evaluation looks for and what happens when your site fails.