you can't equip the septic system with a standard drain field. Instead, you'd locate the septic tank underground, then create a mini-hill (called a "mound") out of gravel, sand and a surface ...

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A mound system is similar to a conventional septic setup, except the tanks and field bed are buried in soil trucked in and ...