In the summer of 2016, I hired county-approved septic system designer to do the design for the lot. I asked him to do a 3 bedroom design even though technically there are only 2 bedrooms planned for the cabin. That way we'll have a little extra capacity.
He scheduled a backhoe and I met him up there. When I got there, the hole had already been dug. He hopped in and showed me that it ws very sandy soil, basically crushed granite. No problem with drainage/perk, but actually the problem is that the soil drains *too* well.
We will have to build a "pressurized" system, which mean we have to haul in special sand/dirt that holds the water a little better than the sandy dirt that's there.
About a week later he emailed me a copy of the septic design. Only problem was that it had someone else's name on it. (He had apparently reused the design from another one of his clients.) I didn't make a big deal out of it. He made the correction, and I sat on the septic design knowing that I couldn't file for a permit until I had water availability worked out.
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