Julie
> No biggy. I've been doing this stuff for about 40 years and that's about when they sent me out to do the perc tests. I thought it was fun. I could sit out there and do whatever as long as I checked each hole every half hour and wrote it down. Most of them went fine, some I could tell were not going to pass but that was not my worry at the time. Then I started "plotting deeds" and that's when I became a "pile of garbage" (inside joke w/Mr. Schaut). I can hear him cackling from here.
Oh dear, inside joke with Mr. Schaut, did you work with him? Maybe I missed that on RPLS.com.
40 years in surveying. That is a long time. I put in my 20 and with the withering economy here in MD am looking in another direction. I guess I need to figure out what direction that is 😉
PS most of the perc tests here do not go well, most of the good land has already been developed, and 20 years ago the regs were less stringent, so now developers are trying to perc land that will never pass today's standards and they are still thinking it is 20 years ago. I would say 1 out of 4 tests pass, and you need between 3 to 5 passing tests per lot. It makes for a lot of digging.
Julie
Julie
There are a lot of creative septic systems nowadays where if you have enough money, you can build like a sand-filtration system or something more exotic to compensate for lousy soil. In Sacramento County, if the parcel being created is large enough, the environmental health department has enough data on the soils of each area that they don't even require testing for new parcels.
