#septic system design

[toddgrover6]

What is Septic Tank Service?

[nengineerings]

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[chemicalproduct]

Septic tank enzyme treatment

[homestead-inc]

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[homesteadincblog]

Things To Consider When Going For Septic System Design Provider

Septic system design is a crucial aspect of homeownership in Massachusetts. It involves designing a self-contained waste treatment system that is responsible for removing and treating the wastewater produced in a home. This includes everything from the toilet and sink water to laundry and dishwasher runoff. 

If you are in the look for a septic system tank design for your home, there are several things that you should consider. Some of them are mentioned below.

Size Of The System

The size of the septic system is an essential consideration when it comes to Massachusetts septic system design. The system size should be based on the number of people in your home and the estimated amount of wastewater that will be generated. A qualified septic system designer can determine the size of the system that will meet your needs.

Choose An Experienced Designer

When choosing a septic system tank design provider, it is essential to work with someone experienced and knowledgeable. Look for a designer who is licensed and insured and has a good reputation in the industry. You may also want to ask for references from past clients.

Cost Of Services

The cost of Massachusetts septic system design services is also an essential factor to consider. While it is important not to choose a designer solely based on price, you want to ensure that the cost is reasonable and within your budget. Get a detailed estimate from the designer before hiring them to avoid any surprises.

Permits And Regulations

Septic system tank design services also involve permits and regulations. A qualified designer will be familiar with the local laws and regulations regarding septic system design and can help you navigate the permit process. Hiring such a provider ensures that you don’t attract any legal repercussions in the future.

Maintenance And Service

Proper maintenance of your septic system is critical to ensure its longevity and optimal functioning. A good septic system designer will provide you with information on how to maintain your system and offer ongoing service and support.

Septic system tank design is a crucial aspect of homeownership in Massachusetts. It ensures proper disposal of wastewater from your home and protects the environment and public health. When considering septic system design services, it is essential to consider the size of the system, the experience of the designer, the cost of services, permits, regulations, and maintenance and service. By considering these factors, you can ensure that you choose the right septic system designer and design a system that meets your needs and fits your budget.

If you are looking for reliable septic system design services, look no further than Homestead! Their team of licensed professionals has years of experience designing septic systems that meet the unique needs of their clients. They are committed to providing exceptional customer service, and their design solutions are cost-effective and environmentally friendly. Choose Homestead for your septic system design needs and experience peace of mind!

[reasonsforhope]

"When bloodstream infections set in, fast treatment is crucial — but it can take several days to identify the bacteria responsible. A new, rapid-diagnosis sepsis test could cut down on the wait, reducing testing time from as much as a few days to about 13 hours by cutting out a lengthy blood culturing step, researchers report July 24 [2024] in Nature.

“They are pushing the limits of rapid diagnostics for bloodstream infections,” says Pak Kin Wong, a biomedical engineer at Penn State who was not involved in the research. “They are driving toward a direction that will dramatically improve the clinical management of bloodstream infections and sepsis.”

Sepsis — an immune system overreaction to an infection — is a life-threatening condition that strikes nearly 2 million people per year in the United States, killing more than 250,000 (SN: 5/18/08). The condition can also progress to septic shock, a steep drop in blood pressure that damages the kidneys, lungs, liver and other organs. It can be caused by a broad range of different bacteria, making species identification key for personalized treatment of each patient.

In conventional sepsis testing, the blood collected from the patient must first go through a daylong blood culturing step to grow more bacteria for detection. The sample then goes through a second culture for purification before undergoing testing to find the best treatment. During the two to three days required for testing, patients are placed on broad-spectrum antibiotics — a blunt tool designed to stave off a mystery infection that��s better treated by targeted antibiotics after figuring out the specific bacteria causing the infection.

Nanoengineer Tae Hyun Kim and colleagues found a way around the initial 24-hour blood culture.

The workaround starts by injecting a blood sample with nanoparticles decorated with a peptide designed to bind to a wide range of blood-borne pathogens. Magnets then pull out the nanoparticles, and the bound pathogens come with them. Those bacteria are sent directly to the pure culture. Thanks to this binding and sorting process, the bacteria can grow faster without extraneous components in the sample, like blood cells and the previously given broad-spectrum antibiotics, says Kim, of Seoul National University in South Korea.

Cutting out the initial blood culturing step also relies on a new imaging algorithm, Kim says. To test bacteria’s susceptibility to antibiotics, both are placed in the same environment, and scientists observe if and how the antibiotics stunt the bacteria’s growth or kill them. The team’s image detection algorithm can detect subtler changes than the human eye can. So it can identify the species and antibiotic susceptibility with far fewer bacteria cells than the conventional method, thereby reducing the need for long culture times to produce larger colonies.

Though the new method shows promise, Wong says, any new test carries a risk of false negatives, missing bacteria that are actually present in the bloodstream. That in turn can lead to not treating an active infection, and “undertreatment of bloodstream infection can be fatal,” he says. “While the classical blood culture technique is extremely slow, it is very effective in avoiding false negatives.”

Following their laboratory-based experiments, Kim and colleagues tested their new method clinically, running it in parallel with conventional sepsis testing on 190 hospital patients with suspected infections. The testing obtained a 100 percent match on correct bacterial species identification, the team reports. Though more clinical tests are needed, these accuracy results are encouraging so far, Kim says.

The team is continuing to refine their design in hopes of developing a fully automated sepsis blood test that can quickly produce results, even when hospital laboratories are closed overnight. “We really wanted to commercialize this and really make it happen so that we could make impacts to the patients,” Kim says."

-via Science News, July 24, 2024

[design-law]

Does this septic receiving station infringe this design patent? That’s the claim in this recently-filed complaint.

[wachinyeya]

Indian IT Worker Designs New Eco-Friendly Sewage Treatment Method with the Sacred Cow as His Inspiration https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/indian-it-worker-designs-new-eco-friendly-sewage-treatment-method-with-the-sacred-cow-as-his-inspiration/

Tharun Kumar began to imagine ways to build a better sewage treatment method that could produce good quality water without chemicals.

In 2017, Kumar started ECOSTP with the chambered stomach of the cow as his “bovine inspiration.”

Typical wastewater plants use aerobic bacteria, or metabolism with oxygen, to break down sewage, but this requires the ventilation system that continually runs on energy. Regular sewage treatment also tends to use chemicals, and has the presence of a full-time employee. Kumar has eliminated almost all of these drawbacks.

At the base of the ECOSTP septic tank is a layer of cow dung that provides the bacterial workers. With the water moving via gravity, it enters the second bacterial chamber before passing into the third space which is a filter of sand and gravel. The fourth chamber lies under a garden of select vascular plants which removes suspended solids, pathogens, nitrogen, and phosphorus, the latter two going to feed the plants.

The resulting water is graded by health inspectors as good quality for toilet water and gardening applications. With the aid of a grant from the US-based Biomimicry Solutions, ECOSTP now has 325 clients across 22 states in India, and their septic tanks are unmanned and unpowered, saving thousands in running costs.

“We are proud to have reclaimed 2 billion liters of sewage so far without power or chemicals.”

ECOSTP is now seeing if it’s possible to identify anaerobic bacteria that can remove the harmful compounds of industrial effluent.

[like-likes]

I've just inherited my late father's farmhouse. No I'm not kidding - That's why I haven't posted in a few days. My husband and I decided to take over his old colonial house after lots of consideration with the current housing market being ridiculous and unaffordable and such.

The house needs a complete room to room cleaning, fresh paint, a few major repairs and many minor repairs. 2000+ sq feet of living space with an enormous attic. Thankfully it has a newer heating system and a new roof already. I already had the septic tank repaired while we were prepping the house to go on sale last fall.

So I guess in a way I am playing Stardew Valley IRL, The property sits on a 4 acre lot. I can't see my neighbors... Surrounded by trees,,, It's beautiful! There is a barn foundation/pit we like to use for cozy little fires. I'm really happy for the opportunity to honor my late father in bringing life back to this old house. I'm also pretty excited for our 2 kids to get out of the suburb/city and into this much quieter, slower paced place. I lived here when I was their age. It's peaceful.

Anyway, got to get going... I'm thinking of starting a side blog for the before and after pictures and overall process. Or would you like to have me just post them here? hmmm....

I'll still play Stardew - I always come back to it! Yes at the moment - My mind is filled with ideas on how to make this place a happy beautiful home that reflects some of the original style of the house (colors for the walls, curtains, rugs...) mixed with some modern comforts and designs...

My kitchen is going to be mushroom themed! Never had a themed kitchen before :) So fun!

See ya ;)

[hometoursandotherstuff]

It's been a while since I posted a decommissioned missile silo that's been turned into a home. Can you imagine this thing being your front door? This particular one, from the Cold War, was done by YouTube influencer Andrew Flair of Fishing With Flair. It's a former Atlas-F missile complex, built in 1962 in York, Nebraska. It has 1bd 1ba & is asking $750K.

Once inside the cement entrance, you proceed down the stairs.

This would be your foyer and very sturdy door.

And, here we are in the residence. As you can see, it's very open concept. I kind of like the bumble bee effect on the funnel thing- makes it the focal point of the room.

The kitchen and flooring are very nice.

The walls and ceiling are very rough- looks like he simply painted them.

It has electricity, hot and cold running water, a working septic system with lift station, and a water purification system. You have to add a StarLink system (or similar) for communication, gaming and entertainment.

Listed as 1 bd, but clearly, you could put more beds around, right?

This is the one bath, or shower, and I see that he put some drywall up in here.

Now, let us proceed to the unfinished lower level.

So, this can be finished for more living space, but I'm not loving those creepy holes in the floor.

Now, let's go thru the tunnel to look at the empty missile silo.

I don't know what's going on here.

If you've never seen one before, it's just a long empty space that housed the huge missile. You can see the hatch doors on top, there.

This is what it looks like from outside, where the missile would launch.

It's the typical missile silo design. What in the world would you do w/that silo?

Of course, it's in the middle of East Bumblefuck, and comes with 6.19 acres.

[nengineerings]

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[baby--charchar]

A writing blurb/wip/however you'd like to call it. TBH I'm more self conscious about actually WRITING OUT STORIES, so I wouldn't mind constructive feedback.

‘Charlie had a rough day’ was a blatant understatement of how horribly shit hit the fan that day. But you wouldn't know it just by looking at her demeanor.

When a random gang tried to rob the hotel that morning, she handled it. When the entire septic system on the 7th floor exploded, she handled it. When Vaggie and Angel got in a screaming match over his ever growing drug stashes, she handled it.

It seemed that no matter how terrible, scary, or unexpected her challenges got, she kept smiling, kept going like she wasn't bearing the weight of so much on her shoulders already.

Of course, everyone cracks eventually. In some way or another. Charlie would like to think that she was using age regression to help mitigate those cracks. When she was feeling little, it was okay if she threw a tantrum occasionally or get snippy with Dad or Vaggie. If she let out a little bit of the pressure at a time, in a safe space surrounded by safe people, she'd be okay enough to keep smiling the next day. Of course, things don't always balance out like that in the end, especially with how much energy Charlie spent repressing negative feelings.

Upon coming home to their suite on the hotel's highest floor, Charlie collapsed on the floor in front of the TV. Vaggie watched her calmly.

“You feeling okay, hun?”

Charlie shrugged and brought her fingers up towards her mouth. Vaggie caught that glassy look in her eyes taking over.

“Feeling little?”

After a pause, Charlie nodded her head. Vaggie bent down to kiss her cheek before stepping around her.

“Okay, Princessa. Let me grab your things. Can I call your dad, or do you want it to be just us tonight?”

“...Call Daddy.”

“Call Daddy. I can definitely do that.” Vaggie had Lucifer on speed dial for these nights. He loved getting to visit Charlie when she was regressed, and they've healed their relationship a lot the past few months together. He was also great to tag-team with whenever Vaggie need a break.

After a quick chat on the phone, Vaggie refocused on Charlie. She grabbed one of her favorite outfits to wear in littlespace: a red, long-sleeve dress with gold foil hearts all over it; soft, stretched out black leggings; fuzzy pink socks; and the only part of it that Charlie hated, a simple pink pull-up without any designs or characters on it. Charlie genuinely struggled controlling her bladder when she regressed. Vaggie thought that it may have something to do with her brain not communicating with her “big girl” body properly. But while Charlie definitely needed them, she hated having to use pull-ups with every fiber of her being.

Vaggie approached her quietly, sitting down beside her curled-up form on the plush red carpet.

“Can I get you dressed, Princessa?”

“Mm…kay…” Charlie hummed. Vaggie smiled softly and started unbuttoning her clothes. Pants, blouse, bra, then underwear. Charlie wasn't all that helpful in the process, but thankfully she let Vaggie roll her around a bit in order to wrestle all her clothes off. Vaggie slipped the red dress over her head and pulled her arms through. She already looked so cute in her favorite cozy dress.

Vaggie stretched the pull-up out and subtly slipped it into the leggings. With one swift motion she got them both over Charlie's bottom, and thankfully avoided any fussing or tantrums over the oh-so-offensive pull-up. Lastly, she slipped Charlie's socks on and undid her ponytail.

There, cute as a button.

Charlie sat up with a dazed look on her face.

“Oh, my little one is so tired this evening. It's been a rough day, huh?” Charlie quietly placed her fingers and thumb in her mouth. 

“Oh, nuh uh uh mi amor. I got your binki. Let's try that with a binki.” Vaggie slipped a bright pink pacifier into Charlie's mouth, but no sooner had she done that, Charlie ripped it out and threw it at the wall behind Vaggie's head.

“No!” Charlie snapped. Vaggie blinked.“...Okay. That's fine. But listen to me-  Charlie, listen- be sweet tonight. Daddy's coming over and you know you wanna be kind to him, right?” Charlie scowled at the floor. Vaggie sighed. Oh lord, here we go again. Rough days lead to rough nights I guess, she thought begrudgingly.

[weird-fishes-i-reckon]

Is your power out? Here’s what you need to know about the restoration process:

Yes, your power being out is horrible, it’s dangerous especially if you are chronically ill, or live on well and septic and therefore don’t have access to water. Believe me, the scouting and linemen crews working on restoring your electricity know that. Most of us get into this field because we’ve been in a similar situation.

This is the daily process for your linemen and scouting crews: they wake up well before the sun even thinks of rising, they go to their designated operations center, they get debriefed on safety, and are then assigned tickets. Tickets are reports for power outages along the power grid. They are required to start with the ticket that has the most customers out, and then work their way down. Scouts finish at sundown, linemen keep working through the night if they can safely do so. They meet back up with their team, debrief, and then sleep and repeat.

This is the construction of your power grid system: you have transmission lines (those big pylons) that go to a substation. Each substation steps down the voltage and splits the electricity into circuits.

Each circuit leaves the substation as a backbone that covers a certain location. If the substation is the brain, then the backbone is exactly that. Each backbone has taps - which are like ribs - and they spread out, sometimes with taps of their own. The secondary wire will run from a transformer on the pole to your house. Each house is serviced by one secondary, whether it’s overhead or underground.

Yesterday I had a ticket with 1,107 customers affected. It was a problem with the backbone and because of that, everyone downstream didn’t have power. It’s almost like being paralyzed at a certain vertebrae. We fixed the backbone, but there were still people who had their power out because a tree fell on a tap or secondary. That adds time to the getting your power on. If we started with the tickets that only have one customer out, we could fix your pole or your wire, but the power might not come back on.

The people who are scouting are not allowed to and not able to tell you when your power will return. They figure out what caused the outage and then create a list of what the line crew needs to fix it. They can put in the notes if it’s urgent, like if your elderly mother is on a breathing apparatus or something, but that’s not a guarantee that you will be seen quickly.

Please keep your dogs leashed or behind a fence that will hold them back. If someone needs to be in your backyard, bring your dog inside. One of our guys got bit hard on the leg yesterday. That’s one less person able to work, the power will now take longer to come back on.

Yelling at the crews will not make them work faster.

In extra heavily affected areas, sometimes entire swaths of power infrastructure are completely obliterated. They will need to be entirely rebuilt from the ground up. This will take Even More time than usual to get power restored.

Electricity is dangerous. Your standard American outlet has 120 volts of electricity. Your standard neighborhood power line has 15 kilovolts (15000 volts) of electricity, backbones can have 25 kilovolts. Don’t. Touch. The. Wire. Always assume the wire is live (has electricity running through it). I have seen a squirrel instantly grilled because it was grounded while touching a live wire. Just don’t fucking do it.

If you’re walking in an area with power line damage and your feet feel hot or tingly all of a sudden, you’re not tripping, you’re feeling electrical currents. Back away.

Transmission lines run anywhere above 39 kilovolts. It can go up to 765 kilovolts. If transmission goes down, it will affect the whole substation and the people served by that substation. If you see dangling transmission wire or you see it on the ground or in the water (god forbid) stay FAR AWAY. DONT GET CLOSE. Report it IMMEDIATELY.

The crew has two jobs: restore the power, and come home at the end of the day. The second one is the most important. Our job alone is extremely dangerous, if we assess a situation or environment to be too dangerous to do our work, we will have to wait until the situation has improved. Active flooding is one of those situations.

If you are in an area that has experienced a lot of rain or flooding, your power might go out a lot during the next few months, even after it’s restored. Trees with shallow root systems like pines and water oaks will loose a lot of grip with the ground because of how disturbed the soil gets. You should stay aware of falling trees if you’re in an area with an abundance of trees that have shallow roots.

Please stay safe, please stay aware.

[country-corner]

Greetings and Salutations from the Middle of Nowhere

I know it has been a while, this is the first time I have been able to get on line. Have to use wifi right now so limited in time I have on line

Update on our home sale and purchase of new place:

A young couple with a pre-teen boy, purchased our old house. And since (so I have been told and confirmed with my own eyes) has proceeded in cutting down all the trees, the Saskatoon blueberry bush, pulled the table and Oregon grapes out and cut out all the blackberry vines back to the property line. They also have 3 cars in the old garden area sitting on blocks. The old neighbors have told us they want us to move back. Sorry, not happening.

Regarding our new place; we have a larger place. It is a mix or basalt, jack pines in sandy soil and some really nice soil. Put in 500ft of driveway (cutting trees, pulling stumps and dragging the "road"). Now the power company will come out and give us a bid to bring in the power (less than a quarter mile from nearest transformer).

Did have a bid from a well driller, but they wanted the driveway in first, now they are not answering their phones. So we are contacting a different driller tomorrow.

Telephone company wont put in a land line. since we are "too far away from the main road". 1 mile long private road, that nearly everyone on the road wants to have a land line due to spotty cell service (closest towers are over 25 miles, as the crow flies, away, with a few hills inbetween as well. Closest telephone pole to my place is a little over 1/4 mile as the crow flies, and found out the telephone company does have legal right-away up to my property line, coming from the East across country.

The previous owners refuse to release the perk test they had done or the name of the engineer they had do test and septic design. Since no permit for a septic system was ever requested, the County doesn't have a copy of the test, engineer name or septic plan. So we are going to have to have that redone.

And finally, the Post Master refuses to accept the address the county gave us for the property for mail delivery until (in his words) "There is a proper house with a foundation on the property and he has confirmed it with his own eyes." Despite the fact the address has been accepted and used by both State and Federal offices. And in this state a tent or camp trailer is considered a legal residence if placed on your legally owned property. So we are getting our mail delivered to our daughter's place, 35 miles away.

Despite all of that, we are having the time of our lives out on our new property. Enjoying the wildlife and the peace and quiet of being out there. Laying out the food plots for the deer. Using the native basalt to build the raised garden beds. We have even started digging the trenched for the root cellar and fuel storage sheds. And not a day goes by when I don't see wild turkeys or a deer on the property. Did miss seeing the black bear that came through, running from the wildfire on the other side of the river, we was in town getting supplies.

Well that is all for now. I wish you all peace, happiness and a great upcoming week. Be safe and take care.

[macgyvermedical]

Amazing things happened in the last week. We finally got someone to buy our house (in this economy!) it's a nice family who wants to carry on our dream of turning the place into an urban homestead, which tbh we'd pretty much given up on.

Then we also got the final permits necessary to talk to zoning about pouring our slab for the log cabin that's been sitting around ready to move for the last 5 months because we wanted the *special* septic system that could run on solar and the only designer was like "yea that'll take two weeks" and then it promptly took 3 months.

And we're getting running water on Thursday! After 8 months of hauling water in 5-gallon buckets from a pond, this will be like complete luxury.

[insipid-drivel]

Your follow-up to the horse info post is just as good as the first one, and I offer a sincere thanks because those sorts of posts take forever, and are a lot of work.

But the reason I’m sending this is because of the joy of seeing the horsey prosthetics. I was aware that injury didn’t and doesn’t mean instant euthanasia, but I didn’t know what advances had been made and it’s a lovely thing to be able to help a friend live their best life.

For instances where euthanasia is the only course of action, would that be something like a horse has sustained a break that has gone septic in a time prior to antibiotics? So the horse would likely die anyway and it would be more humane to put it down than to let nature run its course, I’m thinking. Or is that completely wrong?

Thanks again for all of the hard work you put into these posts and answers!

Eugh, infections are a really horrible and scary part of horse health crisis management, because they can be very touch-and-go depending on where the actual infection is and how early it's treated with antibiotics. Once sepsis has taken hold, there usually isn't a lot modern medicine can do but try to provide comfort measures through medications, and pump the horse with large-bore doses of IV antibiotics, stress-reducing medications to keep them from panicking and their bodies from working too hard, and fluids while hoping the immune system is still strong enough to put the antibiotics to use and win against a case of sepsis. Sometimes, the bacterial load in the body is just too much or the infection has caused irreparable damage to a critical organ like the heart, and there isn't any other way to show the animal mercy but to euthanize. Most cases of sepsis, before death, result in a comatose state before the body completely shuts down from multiple organ failure, and it's an extremely miserable way to die. So yes, when euthanasia is discussed with horses, it's primarily when there is nothing else that can be done to make the horse's quality of life better while its suffering is only going to get worse (usually resulting in death) regardless of veterinary science or a limitless budget.

The problem with antibiotics in general is that they take time to work. If you've ever been miserable from something like a UTI or a chest infection, you know waiting 2-3 days for oral antibiotics to fully kick in sucks (IV antibiotics tend to work much faster, but still take a bit of time to reach full potency), because the infection is still there and causing intense pain and discomfort. The reason it takes so long is because antibiotics stimulate an immune system into going ham on an infection and destroying it. If there isn't enough time, or the immune system is already shot, then antibiotics may not be enough. End-stage or late-stage sepsis in pretty much any mammal is pretty much gonna be deadly, because sepsis is commonly called "blood poisoning" and kills by causing multiple essential organs to stop working in rapid succession - brain, heart, liver, lungs, etc. - like fairy lights on a string going out one by one after the first light fails. "Too far gone" happens, and that's when euthanasia becomes an open subject, because there's nothing left to anticipate for the animal but more suffering before they're going to die of their infection/injury.

Good vets will ALWAYS try to fight until the bitter end to provide options and other forms of intervention in saving an animal's life from disease or injury, but they also are specifically trained to know when a situation is just too beyond what they're capable of addressing and when continuing to try to treat an animal is only going to prolong its suffering before it inevitably succumbs to death. That's why prosthetics are becoming a thing for horses now! The cost of 3D printers have been going down, more designs for prosthetics are being published, and better materials are being employed for optimal horse comfort and recovery. Most injuries that result in a disabled leg in horses are caught and treated rapidly by owners and vet teams with no serious infections setting in, and so the main reason euthanasia has been employed for leg breaks and cases of amputation was more for preventing the horse from suffering without a mobility aid or prosthetic. Now, humans are catching up and figuring out what materials and structural designs work best in prostheses for horses, and we're seeing a huge increase in cases of horses surviving and living long, happy lives even after losing a leg!