I recently had a conversation about septic systems with a gentleman I bumped into. I’m just odd enough to find septic systems, and conversations about them, quietly interesting. I’ll spare you most of the details of our chat, but I will mention that the soil type at the drain field is a huge consideration. The ideal soil for a septic drain field is deep, well-drained loamy or sandy loam soil with moderate permeability that allows wastewater to percolate slowly and evenly for proper treatment.
When
our conversation turned to the soil, the gentleman asked, “What’s your soil
like?”
I
laughed. “Oh, I don’t have any of that. I live on a pile of rocks.”
I
regularly make this claim about where I live, and I suspect most people assume
I’m joking, but I’m not. My “ground” is mostly river-washed cobbles with an
occasional run of sand, left behind by ancient waters.
Pretty
rocks, I grant you.
To
show you what I mean, I trotted outside and took a photograph of the ground not
far from my house.
—Mitchell
Hegman
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