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native or innovative treatment units are involved, management becomes complex.
And this is a delicate matter.
Take a Break: A
Little History
The idea of a septic system goes back to 1881, when it was developed by a Frenchman. In a tank, he had “observed that part of the feces went from the solid state to the liquid state when the wastewater from toilets and sinks was allowed to remain in a watertight container.” Supposedly, the local parish priest was so impressed by this discovery that he built a septic tank with a glass wall in his church so he could watch this action. His observations intrigued both the scientific community as well as his parishioners, who were undoubtedly appalled.
Thq idea spread, was patented by a British inventor in 1897, but did not catch on big in the United States until the early 1900s.
According to the U.S. Census Bureau’s American Home Survey of 2003, there are now almost 106 million occupied homes in the United States.
Some 84 million are hooked up to a public sewer plant, a centralized system. But close to 22 million make use of septic tanks, cesspools, and chemical toilets, e.g., onsite/decentralized systems.
In correspondence with Mr.Anish Jantrania of the Division of Onsite Sewage and Water Services, within the Office of Environmental Health Services, of the Virginia Department of Health, it was estimated that there were^bout 3,300 onsite systems in Rappahan
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