Jim Anderson, Ph.D., is an emeritus professor at the University of Minnesota Department of Soil, Water and Climate and recipient of the pumping industry’s Ralph Macchio Lifetime Achievement Award. Email Jim questions about septic system maintenance and operation at editor@pumper.com.
A reader wrote in with an observation about a practice he had seen lately and a question about system sizing based on the number of bedrooms. The reader said some installers tell homeowners the way around needing a bigger system is to have extra rooms without closets because they...
