Country Plumbing: Living with a Septic System

by Gerry Hartigan

Overview

You can keep your septic system running day-after-day, year after-year. First published in 1984, Country Plumbing, in its initial edition, went through eight printings and has educated and entertained thousands of country dwellers who live beyond the reach of public sewer systems. Now, with the contribution of Mike Haupt, this revised edition contains information about some of the more recent developments in the world of private sewage treatment facilities. Even in restricted areas such as lakeside properties or small lots, you can live without a public sewer hook-up and still be a good steward of the environment.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780911469349
Publisher:	Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
Publication date:	07/26/2009
Edition description:	Second Edition
Pages:	96
Sales rank:	181,305
Product dimensions:	5.90(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.40(d)

Table of Contents

	Preface	iii
	CHAPTER 1
	The Internet	1
	CHAPTER 2
	The Universal Problem	3
	CHAPTER 3
	Background	9
	CHAPTER 4
	Subsurface Disposal Systems	25
	CHAPTER 5
	The Distribution Box	33
	CHAPTER 6
	Other Problems	35
	CHAPTER 7
	The New Installation	57
	CHAPTER 8
	Commercial Tanks	67
	CHAPTER 9
	The Free Advice Department	69
	CHAPTER 10
	Summary	79

What People are Saying About This

Martin L. Johnson

"This is a dynamite book. It should be owned and studied by every person who lives in the country. It is a practical and step-by-step guide through one of life's great crises, what to do when the drains don't work. It also describes how maintenance can prevent such a crisis. This book, written for the intelligent lay person living in the country, strips away the shrouds of mystery, superstition and misinformation that have obscured one of life's great realities: what happens to the water we live by once we are through with it."--(Martin L. Johnson, Ph.D., P.E., former Commissioner of Vermont Water Resources)\

Editorial Reviews

...the best -and certainly the most entertaining- common sense guide we've seen to a universal rural problem: septic systems.

Mother Earth News

The book is extremely well written, and its 80 pages are filled with diagrams and some amusing illustrations by Bob Vogel.... You may find Country Plumbing to be the best read book in your library. Just be sure your friends who borrow it return it promptly.

Argus-Champion

Laugh a little as you learn a lot about your backyard septic system.

Boston Globe

This is a dynamite book. It should be owned and studied by every person who lives in the country. It is a practical and step-by-step guide through one of life's great crises-what to do when the drains don't work. It also describes how maintenance can prevent such a crisis. This book, written for the intelligent lay person living in the county, strips away the shrouds of mystery, superstition and misinformation that had obscured one of life's great realities; what happens to the water we live by once we are through with it.
—Former Commissioner of Vermont Water Resources

Martin L. Johnson

Laugh a little as you learn a lot about your backyard septic system.\

The Boston Globe