Stinky Business

As a younger man I never considered I would be in the waste water treatment business.  Alas, I have a Private Onsite Wastewater Treatment Systems (POWTS).  

Such is rural life.

Three year inspection and pump.

Passed with flying colors.

Raising a toast to cleaning the filter twice a year a scheduled intervals.

POWTS

PRO TIP

 

 

If you live in rural America there is high probability you have a POWTS (private onsite wastewater treatment system). 

Pull your filter out at six month intervals to flush it  clean of accumulated nastiness. 

It’s a stinky disgusting job but it will help your effluent move efficiently thru the system

 

POWTS

Which is the acronym for Private Onsite Waste Treatment System. 

The Turd Hearse cometh. 
 

 
This is how you handle your shit when you live in rural America and don't have a municipal sewer system.  Everything flows downhill in the plumbing to a 1000 gallon tank where the solids settle.  From there the filtered effluent spills into another tank before being pumped into a mound system.  Once in the mound it slowly filters back into the ground water.       

Our own miniature sewage treatment plant.      

Got the three year clean bill of health after having the tanks pumped and inspected.       

That would be right.  Every three years.      

The county sanitarian requires it due to the fractured dolomite limestone bedrock that makes-up the Door peninsula.        

No leaking or failing septic systems allowed.  

The fella pumping the effluent out of the tanks was chatty-enough.  With all the rain business has been excellent.  But the stink. 

All I gotta say is……Whew!

Fall Colors

It is no secret that we have suffered at the hands of too much rain.  Record-setting rains that have caused the creeks and ponds to overflow their banks and the trails to become swamps.  Some of the white pines are looking a bit yellow and sickly too.  Hunting opportunities have been few and far between

On Monday the septic guy was finally able to schedule a visit to pump and inspect our tanks and POWTS for a three-year recertification.  He freely shared that by the end of September his small business had done as much in sales as they had in any previous year.  He described it as three more months of additional business between now and the end of 2019 that they hadn't counted-upon.  Seems some households with older septic drain fields have been struggling with sewage backing-up into their homes as the rain deluge overwhelmed their systems.  Ugh.

In any event the fall colors have been a bit delayed and in some cases missed with the driving rains stripping the leaves of their colorful foliage.  

At long last when we finally caught a rare moment of clear sky and sunshine the white oak in the front yard began to show-off its fall colors.

Maples are close behind.....

POWTS

Private Onsite Waste Treatment System.

This is how you handle your shit when you're out in the country and don't have a municipal sewer system.  Everything flows down hill in the plumbing to a 1000 gallon tank where the solids settle.  From there the effluent spills into a smaller tank where it is filtered before being pumped into a mound system.  Once in the mound it slowly filters back into the ground water.  Our own miniature sewage treatment plant. 

Got the three year clean bill of health after having the tanks pumped and inspected
.

That would be right.  Every three years.

The county sanitarian requires it due to the fractured dolomite limestone bedrock that makes-up the Door peninsula.

No leaking or failing septic systems allowed.

I chatted with this fella as he went about his stinky business.  All I can say is .....Whew!