Do wastewater filters solve all the maintenance management problems of conventional on-site systems?
The Spring 1996 edition of Pipeline magazine, published by National Small Flows Clearinghouse, focused on the need for management programs for on-site systems. It reported that state regulators have more confidence in centralized treatment systems than on-site systems because “they have centralized management and oversight and centralized operation and maintenance Most industry professionals agree there are three keys to managing properly operating on-site systems. These are design, installation and maintenance. A proper design usually encompasses environmental factors such as a site evaluation – including climatic, topographical and soil conditions, type of use – residential, commercial or industrial, nature and strength of waste, and hydraulic loading of the system. There are on-site technologic alternatives to properly design a system for most sites. There is also enough systems design know how to determine when an on-site system should not be used. More and more states are putting
