Ajasa Samuel

No. Plenty of septic systems in Middle Georgia have never had a pump and never will. Whether yours needs one comes down to a question you can answer by standing in your yard and looking at it: is your drain field downhill from your house? If it is, gravity does the work for free. If the drain field sits uphill, or across a rise, or far enough away that the fall runs out, something has to push the effluent, and that something is a pump. We get asked this a lot by people buying rural property...

Yes. Every time. Georgia requires an approved construction permit before any work associated with installing, modifying or repairing an on-site sewage management system. The rule is Chapter 511-3-1 of the Georgia Compilation of Rules and Regulations, written by the Department of Public Health. You apply to your county Board of Health, and their Environmental Health office handles the site evaluation, the permit and the inspections. The Department writes the rules for all 159 counties. The...

This is the sequence we follow on a residential pad in Middle Georgia. If you are preparing land for a house and want to understand what you are paying for, or you are doing part of it yourself on your own acreage, this is the order of operations and the places it goes wrong. 1. Know where the house goes before you move dirt Fix the building location first and fix it against everything else on the site. The house has to sit clear of setbacks and easements. It has to leave room for the drain...