Your Private Septic System and the Soil Type on your Property Part Four It'll be a real help to you, to know just what the EPA recommends. When you are haven to deal with your local Health Officials, Engineers, and Septic System Designers. The following diagram is a conventioal subsurface wastewater infiltration system.
The treatment options include physical, chemical, and biological processes. The use of these options will be determined by your site's specific needs.
The right hand column of the following chart shows you many of the different approaches that can be taken, all depending on just what the objective is for your site.
| Treatment objective |
Treatment process |
Treatment methods |
| Suspended solids removal |
Sedimentation |
Septic tank
Free water surface constructed wetland
Vegetated submerged bed |
| Filtration |
Septic tank effluent screens
Packed-bed media filters (incl. dosed systems)
Granular (sand, gravel, glass, bottom ash)
Peat, textile
Mechanical disk filters
Soil Infiltration |
Soluble carbonaceous
BOD and ammonium
removal |
Aerobic, suspended-growth reactors |
Extended aeration
Fixed-film activated sludge
Sequencing batch reactors (SBFs) |
| Fixed-film aerobic bioreactor |
Soil infiltration
Packed-bed media filters (incl. dosed systems)
Granular (sand, gravel, glass)
Peat, textile, foam
Trickling filter
Fixed-film activated sludge
Rotating biological contractors |
| Lagoons |
Facultative and aerobic lagoons
Free water surface constructed wetlands |
| Nitrogen transformation |
Biological
Nitrification (N)
Denitrification (D) |
Activated sludge (N)
Sequencing batch reactors (N)
Fixed film bio-reactor (N)
Recirculating media filter (N, D)
Fixed-film activated sludge (N)
Anaerobic upflow filter (N)
Anaerobic submerged media reactor (D)
Submerged vegetated bed (D)
Free-water surface constructed wetland (N, D) |
| Ion exchange |
Cation exchange (ammonium removal)
Anion exchange (nitrate removal) |
| Phosphorus removal |
Physical/Chemical |
Infiltration by soil and other media
Chemical flocculation and settling
Iron-rich packed-bed media filter |
| Biological |
Sequencing batch reactors |
Pathogen removal
(bacteria, viruses, parasites) |
Filtration/Predation/Inactivation |
Soil infiltration
Packed-bed media filters
Granular (sand, gravel, glass bottom ash)
Peat, textile |
| Disinfection |
Hypochlorite feed
Ultraviolet light |
| Grease removal |
Flotation |
Grease trap
Septic tank |
| Adsorption |
Mechanical skimmer |
Aerobic biological treatment
(incidental removal will occur; overloading is possible) |
Aerobic biological system |
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Howdy Dale-Quite the detailed report on septic systems and soil type. Nicely done my friend. :-)