The Association was fortunate to have the sponsorship and support of some of our member manufacturer and supplier base for an installation field day held in Scotch Creek in early November.
The system installed was a seepage bed using pressure distribution to service a five-bedroom home. The home has not yet been constructed. While planning the event, the Association received a call from John Richardson of Premier Plastics offering to help with tankage as his company is celebrating their 30th anniversary this year and wanted to mark that event by supporting industry activities such as the installation day. Tanks provided were an STS 1350D and As well, John noted that Premier Plastics was interested in gauging the ease of installation of a new CTDS system, Geomat. This CTDS system is NSF 40 certified and therefore acceptable under the SPM. With that in mind, the seepage bed was redesigned to meet both the SPM and the manufacturer specifications for the CTDS. The seepage bed was initially designed as a Type 1 system, and so the area of infiltrative surface was maintained for Type 1 even though the CTDS achieves Type 2 treatment. The goal was to see whether the installation of the components was easy and uncomplicated.
Liberty Pumps also supported this event and provided a Model EFFL 1.5 HP 230 V 1 PH MN pump for the pressure distribution system while Delta Water Products sponsored both the freight for the tanks and CTDS components to Kamloops as well as supplying an SJE Rhombus Simplex panel with C-level.
The training day was not without its challenges as the site was heavily treed, meaning access to various points on the site was restricted. This was a good opportunity for new installers to see how site topography and vegetation can impact system installation, and how to accommodate those challenges both in time management and pricing.
The site also had challenging soils, which impacted the efficiency of excavating space for the tank installations. Butch Bouchard of SOS Sewage Onsite & Excavating stepped up by providing a larger excavator and his excavation services.
The Association would like to thank Premier Plastics, Liberty Pumps, Delta Water Products, SOS SOS Sewage Onsite & Excavating for help with this installation workshop. Without this type of support and sponsorship, these events would not be possible. Thanks to David Van Oirschot for providing the installation site and to member Tim Witzke of Black Dragon Contracting for helping with final installation tasks. Trainers for this project were Liesbeth Glotze and David Zacharias of Simple Sewage Solutions.
