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.
I continually receive questions and comments about determining soil texture in the field. Soil texture, as hopefully everyone reading this knows, is one of the key components or indicators for how well the soil will accept septic tank effluent through identification of the soil...
