Penn State Extension is surveying septic system owners or users to learn more about septic system operation and maintenance practices across Pennsylvania. Extension’s water quality and quantity team ...

which measure how effectively soil can absorb water for septic system drain fields. ATUs address this issue by treating wastewater more thoroughly, reducing the dependence on soil absorption. In ...

Penn State Extension is surveying septic system owners or users to learn more about septic system operation and maintenance practices across Pennsylvania.

They include typical septic tanks and drain fields, advanced treatment ... Septic system type and characteristics. Septic system management, including any problems or challenges faced in the ...

Unlike traditional septic systems ... drain fields. ATUs address this issue by treating wastewater more thoroughly, reducing the dependence on soil absorption. In addition to solving this problem ...

One recommendation addressed the 2.5 million (their estimate) unregulated and uninspected “onsite sewage treatment and disposal systems,” commonly called septic tanks, which are scattered thro ...

The problems are both with the failure to address the abundance of existing septic systems that have resulted in human waste polluting our waterbodies, as well as the utter failure to regulate the ...