Tangent Co. initiated a state-approved field trial to evaluate a proprietary home sewage treatment system (HSTS) that could offer an alternative to existing treatment technologies available in Ohio.
A report on Local Health Department survey responses for the 2012 Clean Watersheds Needs Survey, Ohio Department of Health, suggested that approximately 30% of the septic systems in Ohio were failing. The report was commissioned as a needs assessment. Each year since the report, the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency has offered a Water Pollution Control Loan Fund of between $5 and $10 million to be made available in principle forgiveness funding for local health districts to request funding for the replacement or repair of failing home sewage treatment systems
This new installation is part of testing that will go on for six months as a “proof of concept.” The results will be monitored by the state and are being shared with neighboring states who also have an interest in alternatives to traditional septic systems.
“It is our desire to offer a state-of-the-art, cost-effective, land-use conservative, home sewage treatment system to Ohio and the neighboring states by fall of this year,” said Carol Prior, owner of Tangent Co.
The water from the HSTS can be distributed to the surface instead of having to go to a typical leach field, allowing for a smaller footprint for sewage treatment and additional discharge options. More importantly, it would keep consumers in compliance coming into the next decade as Ohio places more stringent rules on discharging.
Source: Tangent Co.
