There is a state standard for septic locations regarding wells, buildings:

CT Public Health Code Regulations & Technical Standards for subsurface sewage disposal systems.

Do a google search- its available online.

The real design control is the height of ground water and the steepness of the slope (ie how fast does the leach field flow) as well as having space for another leach area if the first fails

Last one I had done cost about 2500 to engineer and get approval from the town sanitarian, and about 9k to dig, install and backfill. This was on a site where we designed the house with just crawl space, as a full basement would have been below the water table. Yup, there is a landscaped mound that covers the tank.

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77 300D, 227k, station car
83 300CD 370k, body gone away to the rust gods, engine is in a Yota pickup, going strong
89 190E 2.6- 335k, no more
79 VW FI Bus- 154k summer driver
59 VW Beetle ragtop- 175k
12 VW Jetta- 250k
74 MG Midget-78k

Hatterasguy is this property in Milford or in some other town in CT??

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When we had our septic installed a couple years back, I thought the same thing. But, you really can't tell anything until holes are dug and perc tests are run. You can have vastly different soil, even on the same piece of property.

According to our soils engineer, he'd seen systems ranging from $6K to $35K. All within 1/4 mile of us, and all on land that to my eye looks identical from the surface.

Yes, totally.

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..I also have a 427 Cobra replica with an aluminum chassis.

Absolutely, only instead of 1/4 mile try 200 feet. They did a perc test on my property. The front had 8 foot of sand above water 200 feet back and the water table was 1 foot down. Seems there's an underground stream.
The cost to install the system was 3500.00 in the sand and would have been 10 to 15,000 out back.
Needless to say the scenery looked better in the front of the property (not really)
so in the end the toilet basically determined where the house was built.

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Experience : what you receive 3 seconds after you really needed it !!



86 300SDL 387,000? Motor committed suicide
81 300SD 214,000 "new" 132,000 motor
83 300SD 212,000 parts car
83 300SD 147,000

91 F700 5.9 cummins 5spd eaton 298,000
66 AMC rambler American 2dr auto 108,000
95 Chevy 3/4 ton auto 160,000
03 Toyota 4runner 180,000 wifes

Could be worse, you could live in NY and now have to put in these too.

http://www.silive.com/news/index.ssf/2010/10/dual_flush_toilets_among_conse.html

Good lord, cant even take a sh........ number two without the government intervening!!!

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Experience : what you receive 3 seconds after you really needed it !!



86 300SDL 387,000? Motor committed suicide
81 300SD 214,000 "new" 132,000 motor
83 300SD 212,000 parts car
83 300SD 147,000

91 F700 5.9 cummins 5spd eaton 298,000
66 AMC rambler American 2dr auto 108,000
95 Chevy 3/4 ton auto 160,000
03 Toyota 4runner 180,000 wifes

Come on they took control of how you take a *bleeped* when they outlawed regular toilets, reguiring the low water use.

I think there was noise on here, but I heard quite a bit for a while about people going to Canada to buy toilets because the early low water use ones were junk.

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1990 500SL

I was always taught to respect my elders.
I don't have to respect too many people anymore.

well i have actually considered a dual flush, but it would only get the highflow power flush as my number 1's are usually done outside,one advantage to living in the country!

If it's Yellow let it mellow, if it's brown flush it down

But I use the yard often too

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KLK, MCSE

1990 500SL

I was always taught to respect my elders.
I don't have to respect too many people anymore.

Men who have to pi$$ in a toilet have miserable lives. I've never lived on a sewer hookup. We converted the cesspool here to septic when I was a kid. We've had the same 1500 gal. concrete tank ever since. It gets pumped about every 10 years. 60 foot leach lines are Teed off of the tank. We have a separate tank for the barn due to slaughter waste, etc. No problems ever. We do have lots of recently developed lots in the area that won't perk, and those poor suckers are spending a bundle for some sort of alternate system. We are within 1/8 of a mile of a protected perennial stream, if we were putting in new construction, we'd be out of luck on a regular septic system. Gotta love grandfathered rights.

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