Your Private Septic System and the Soil Type on your Property Part Four It'll be a real help to you, to know just what the EPA recommends. When you are haven to deal with your local Health Officials, Engineers, and Septic System Designers. The following diagram is a conventioal subsurface wastewater infiltration system.
The treatment options include physical, chemical, and biological processes. The use of these options will be determined by your site's specific needs.
The right hand column of the following chart shows you many of the different approaches that can be taken, all depending on just what the objective is for your site.
Treatment objective Treatment process Treatment methods Suspended solids removal Sedimentation Septic tank
Free water surface constructed wetland
Vegetated submerged bedFiltration Septic tank effluent screens
Packed-bed media filters (incl. dosed systems)
Granular (sand, gravel, glass, bottom ash)
Peat, textile
Mechanical disk filters
Soil InfiltrationSoluble carbonaceous
BOD and ammonium
removalAerobic, suspended-growth reactors Extended aeration
Fixed-film activated sludge
Sequencing batch reactors (SBFs)Fixed-film aerobic bioreactor Soil infiltration
Packed-bed media filters (incl. dosed systems)
Granular (sand, gravel, glass)
Peat, textile, foam
Trickling filter
Fixed-film activated sludge
Rotating biological contractorsLagoons Facultative and aerobic lagoons
Free water surface constructed wetlandsNitrogen transformation Biological
Nitrification (N)
Denitrification (D)Activated sludge (N)
Sequencing batch reactors (N)
Fixed film bio-reactor (N)
Recirculating media filter (N, D)
Fixed-film activated sludge (N)
Anaerobic upflow filter (N)
Anaerobic submerged media reactor (D)
Submerged vegetated bed (D)
Free-water surface constructed wetland (N, D)Ion exchange Cation exchange (ammonium removal)
Anion exchange (nitrate removal)Phosphorus removal Physical/Chemical Infiltration by soil and other media
Chemical flocculation and settling
Iron-rich packed-bed media filterBiological Sequencing batch reactors Pathogen removal
(bacteria, viruses, parasites)Filtration/Predation/Inactivation Soil infiltration
Packed-bed media filters
Granular (sand, gravel, glass bottom ash)
Peat, textileDisinfection Hypochlorite feed
Ultraviolet lightGrease removal Flotation Grease trap
Septic tankAdsorption Mechanical skimmer Aerobic biological treatment
(incidental removal will occur; overloading is possible)Aerobic biological system
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Howdy Dale-Quite the detailed report on septic systems and soil type. Nicely done my friend. :-)
Howdy there Pat
Its always a pleasure to have you come by to visit, and to read and reply to a comment. Left by you on the posts, here at my little ole Blogging Homestead, my friend
Thank you kindly, I'm really enjoying doing these post series, even when theres not a challenge to do them.
Happy Birthday Dale ! Hope you had a Great Day
Howdy there Ceil and Carl
It sure is always a real pleasure to have y'all stop by to visit, and to read and write a reply to each of the comments. Y'all leave on the posts, here at my little ole Blogging Homestead, my friends
Thank you mighty kindly, for such a fine cake. I've had a real fine day.
Dale,
The Winters left a happy birthday to you on one of my posts too. Forget which one but one I wrote yesterday. Happy Birthday!
- Happy Birthday DALE -
Howdy there Steven, Jane
Its a pleasure to habe the both of you, stop by to visit. And to read and write a reply to your comments. On this post, here at my little ole Blogging Homestead, my friends
Steven - I found it earlier, it was your post about the Nightshade plant. Thank you kindly for the Birthday wish.
Jane - Thank you kindly for the fine look-en cake, and the Birthday wish.
Dale I didn't leave a kuddo for you last night after we left the Strawberry Cheese Cake for you. You did a real fine job on this blog with your detailed explanation.